<p>Those calculations make me very relieved. XD</p>
<p>I actually love history APs because I'm good with memorizing facts and historical trends (well, better than memorizing physics equations anyway). I'm not really worried about this exam since I bet it will be one of the few APs that I actually know what I'm talking about instead of resorting to making up random, half-baked responses.</p>
<p>duh...the real test mc doesnt really seem to be hard..
i took the 1988(yey, pretty old) test today and get 94/100(yup, there were 100 questions on MC part then)</p>
<p>94 out of 100? wowness.. <em>bows to you?</em></p>
<p>for the essays/DBQs</p>
<p>"I'm a good BSer, to be honest.</p>
<p>Will this get me through it? (Can generate good thoughts from documents/evidence provided, yet probably can't bring in A LOT of outside information)"</p>
<p>ANYONE WANT A 32 PAGE SUMMARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY???
I wrote it as a review and I'm very proud of it lol. So if you want it IM me.</p>
<p>can someone answer my question por favor? self-studier here.</p>
<p>I'm most afraid of the essays..especially the FRQs. </p>
<p>With the DBQ, the documents basically steer you in the direction they want you to go and you can think of background info more easily..but the free response has to be pulled out of thin air..and then, of course, there's always the chance that you'll get an essay on something like comparing the different labor unions or examining the causes of the French and Indian War..</p>
<p>ahh. I'm so scared of this exam lol.</p>
<p>thats why you have so a couple of essays topics to choose from, just do the ones you know best...and its all Outside Info and details, you just gotta know that stuff</p>
<p>usually there will be one essay that 80% of people choose it will sound easy, but the mean score for those essays are much harder than the other one. I'm still not sure which to choose the hard one or the easy one. if i choose the easy one and do amazing on it mine would stand out more for the graders, but if i do the hard one i will be assured a higher score. not sure. any comments on this?</p>
<p>don't worry about what other ppl are doing just do the one you feel most comfortable with. you are bound to write a better essay this way. but really don't worry about this too much. even if you don't get a 9 ur still going to get a high score (above 6) if you know a lot about the material. remember, you don't need a perfect score to get a 5 ont he test. solid multiple choice (in the 60's or higher) will get you a 5 if your essays are 6's</p>
<p>Can you BS and get 6s?</p>
<p>Kaplan says 117/180 or something like that is a 5.</p>
<p>any recommendation for special years or era to focus on? Is it true that the more I leave blank or omit the better my score will be?</p>
<p>CB tries to ask Qs that an balanced number of people would answer for the FRs.. We had a 15min pre-write thing today and like half the class chose one question and half chose the other and etc.</p>
<p>Don't choose which one seems easy, but rather which one you know most about.</p>
<p>As for leaving questions blank... If you can't eliminate any of the choices or you don't know the question at all.. its better to leave it blank.</p>
<p>my guess for dbq is Progressive Era
just a thought...
teddy ..that sort of thing</p>
<p>You lose 1/4 of a point for wrong answers. There are five options so, given five guesses you will, statistically, guess right once and wrong four times. The penalty is there to negate any gain you might've made with guessing.</p>
<p>As for the breakdown of questions, collegeboard.com breaks them down like this...</p>
<p>"Approximately 20 percent of the questions deal with the period through 1789, 45 percent cover 1790 through 1914, and 35 percent cover 1915 to the present including questions on events since 1980.</p>
<p>Within those time periods, 35 percent of the questions are on political institutions, behavior, and public policy; 40 percent are about social and cultural developments; approximately 15 percent of the remaining questions cover diplomacy and international relations; and 10 percent cover economic developments. A substantial number of the social and economic history questions deal with such traditional topics as the impact of legislation on social groups and the economy, or the pressures brought to bear on the political process by social and economic developments. As you've learned, historical inquiry is not neatly divided into categories so many questions pertain to more than one area."</p>
<p>@Munro - haha you could be a bad guesser like me and never choose the right one out of several questions!</p>
<p>I dunno, I usually skip the ones I know I'd never get right.</p>
<p>Personally, I expect to get a 6 on this test. My teacher has some software with MC questions from previous exams on it and the lowest I've scored all year, pecentage-wise, was 75%. On comprehensive testing this week I cracked 90% once. Of course, the software is a bit old, from 1998, but the information they're drawing the questions from isn't anything new.</p>
<p>Just doing practices test, I've realized that skipping the questions I really don't know really helps my score with the 1/4 reduction. My mentality is that I'm not going to be answering every single question out of 80 right, so answering all of them is fruitless.</p>
<p>..and with the FRQs, like other people said, there's no point in going for the "harder" topic if you have no clue what you are talking about. A lot of classes have different structures and put more weight on different materials, so what appears to be hard to you (because you didn't cover it as much) is probably cake to the next person.</p>