<p>Honestly I am extremely disappointed with my AP test scores this year. Math is my strongest point and I got a 5 on all three practice tests the second semester of my Calc BC class. I got a 3 on the exam with a 3 AB subscore on the real thing...Same goes with AP English language. I scored a 5,4,5 on my practice tests and got a 3 on the real thing...Should I go ahead and try to get a rescore? I've heard that people's scores have changed from 3s to 4s or even 3s to 5s with a rescore on some exams. This shows Collegeboard has inconsistencies in their grading systems which I guess I could use to my advantage right? </p>
<p>Also, will this affect me for admittance into the schools I am applying to? (Ivys + top tier schools). This is really a pretty shtty day for me. Any help will be appreciated.</p>
<p>Rescoring is expensive ($25 per test), and takes a long time (6-8 weeks) to get the result. Although it’s true that Collegeboard may have made a mistake, i guess you should only do it if you’re POSITIVE that you did a lot better than a 3. Also, there’s always the option of not sending those particular scores.</p>
<p>Hey shrey96 thanks for the feedback. I think that $25 each will be worth it for me because I am very confident something may have happened (such as a lost FRQ booklet or something because on my FRQ’s I KNOW I got at least 3 9s on the FRQ’s). I think I will go ahead and rescore. Do you think colleges will look down upon my performance even if I did well in the classes (all A’s) but mediocre on the actual exams?</p>
<p>@Davidthenerd, agreed, but to someone who thinks they legitimatly got a 5 and wants to roll with ivy league colleges, getting a completely unexpected 3 kinda sucks too. </p>
<p>I don’t necessarily think they’ll be TOO ****ed about a couple of 3’s (though i haven’t really heard of a 3 being a good thing for ivies), but you’ll have to MORE than make up for it with other stuff, because they like to know that you’re excelling in every academic opportunity you get.</p>
<p>It’s very rare for the score to change after the rescore. Also the FRQ will not be regraded. Honestly, I don’t think it’s worth getting a rescore in this case.</p>
<p>Literature gave a lot of people a lower than expected score this year. There’s probably nothing you can do about it.</p>
<p>Do you know what kind of 5s you were getting on your calc practice tests? On the ones I took, I was getting around 90% raw scores (I don’t mean to brag, I’m just trying to give an example). If I’d gotten a 3, it would have been because one section was lost - probably one free response section - or the multiple choice section was misgraded. In that instance, I would request a rescore, and I would order your free response booklets. If the College Board lost your free response booklets, they won’t know or do anything about it unless you order them and prove them to be missing. In that light, they’ll reissue a new AP score as if your multiple choice was the only part of the test.</p>
<p>@Shrey96 thanks for the support and information!</p>
<p>@keasbey nights I was scoring 85-95% raw scores on the multiple choice and getting 8s and 9s on every FRQ except the Series question (4-6 pts on that one).</p>
<p>That should be an easy 5 then. The free responses this year were a bit more challenging than usual, but there’s no way you should have gotten a 3 if you performed at the same level. Rescore your multiple choice and order your free response booklets. Worst comes to worst, I’m sure your college will offer a placement test to get into the next level of calculus, which you should easily be able to dominate.</p>
<p>Colleges don’t use AP scores for admissions purposes, in fact you can send them after you’ve been admitted and decided on going to a certain college.</p>
<p>^ No they don’t, they actually ask you to send your AP scores if/after you’ve been admitted. However, if you do well on your AP exams you can send them during the admissions process to fortify your application.</p>
<p>The whole “do colleges care about AP scores for admissions” debate is hypothetical and pointless. I’ll say that at my school, the kids who got mostly or all 5s were accepted to top colleges; the kids who got 3s through 5s were not. It can’t hurt to have high AP scores.</p>