<p>I took the US history and the Language and Comp tests and on both I just wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote until the time ran out. My hand ached for hours after each test. I ended up writing 16 pages (entire packet) for history and 14 for language and comp. I received 5's on both.</p>
<p>So I'm really intrigued by this because I didn't think my writing quality per se was very impressive. I'd like to try and establish a correlation between length and score, so it would be cool if everyone else could post their data for any tests they wish.</p>
<p>according the history and english rubric, length has no influence on the grade u have. Pretty much, length depends on how much evidence u put into ur essay. For example, for my apwh essay, i put a lot of historical evidences in three of my essays that i almost fill up the essay packet. As i am saying, since length is influenced by evidences, u received good grades because u have a lot of strong evidences. but for english, even though u say ur writing style good , i think it’s better than u think.</p>
<p>I have taken the exams for european history, u.s. history, and english language and I believe I wrote about 2-3 pages for each of the essays on each exam. I scored a 3 on the euro and 4s on u.s. history and english language. I don’t see much of a correlation there.</p>
<p>On the SAT, a longer essay usually leads to a better score. I think on AP’s a longer essay = more information = better score. Some people write specific and to the point while others elaborate a lot. Different approaches, same result.</p>
<p>AP essays are all about content. You don’t need to write 16 pages or whatever. I wrote 5 for all three combined essays on the English Lang test, skipped 15 MC, and still scored a 5. Clearly my essays were strong for however short they were. Its all about quality, and not length.</p>
<p>My english lit essays were all 1-2 pages with normal, if not somewhat large, handwriting with an empty line in between paragraphs. Two of the three barely scraped a page, and I had to write intentionally spaced out so I could just get over that one-page barrier. Generally, I stay around a healthy 2-3, but I didn’t think I needed to/didn’t want to write a lot for english lit (I didn’t get credit for my score, so I didn’t care that much). On all the other AP tests where I had to write essays and wrote 2-3 pagers (including language the year before) I got 5s. On english lit I got a 4. Take this as you will, because it is not close to definitive evidence that length matters.</p>
<p>A friend of mine was writing right up to the end of the AP Euro exam, she filled her book (16 pages). In the end she recieved a 4. I did 5 pages for the DBQ, 3 for each FRQ making for 11 pages, I have yet to recieve my score. I didn’t try to stretch anything with flowery language, as many did. I think that the number of pages you have really does not matter.</p>
<p>Hahaha, I was so worried after reading all of these posts about people writing 4+ essays for APUSH. I definitely wrote a little under two pages for the DBQ, one and a half pages for one essay, and less than a page for the other. I got a five. </p>
<p>Then again I owned the multiple choice so my essays only needed to be threes or fours for me to get a five so…</p>
<p>^ haha same here maddie. for US i wrote maybe 2.5 pages for the DBQ, 1.5 for the first essay and 1 for the second and I got a 5
although the multiple choice WAS ridiculously easy, so that may have had something to do with it…</p>
<p>for eng lang last year i wrote maybe 2 pages for each essay and got a 5 too. </p>
<p>Euro last year I wrote the most of any of my tests: 5 page DBQ, 2-2.5 first essay, 1.5 for my second essay and i got a 4, so… (my DBQ was amazing and my second essay was horrid, so I think it almost balanced out)</p>
<p>On my AP U.S. History Exam, I decided to specifically answer anything the prompts were desiring and not focusing much on length. Unfortunately, my last essay was a little rushed since I was running out of time, but I still managed to decently answer the questions in that last thematic essay. My score was a 5, but the multiple choice section also helped a lot I think (not that my essays were bad). The surest way to do well with essays is to completely answer what the prompt asks in any given contexts. Organization, of course, is still important, though.</p>
