<p>I called in and I got a 1. I had the person repeat it like three times. Still a 1. But I studied like crazy, I'm a straight-A student and talking to other people it sounds like we did about the same! There's probably no point posting this but I always considered myself a good student and this was my first AP so now I wonder what's the point of even trying. Anyone else get something as low as me? Or what were your guys' scores, anyways?</p>
<p>If you feel you did better than a one you need to see if they can grade your score by hand.</p>
<p>How do I do that?</p>
<p>Maybe there was some sort of…procedral mistake? Did you use pen on the FRQ?</p>
<p>To be honest, if you live in the US it would probably be very difficult to get a 1. If you’re a straight A student, then it’s very unlikely. Ask them to score the MC by hand. Even if you got a one on all of the essays, if you got even half the mc right I think you get at least a 2. </p>
<p>I would just call the AP and talk to them. I think you need to write them a letter to get it hand scored tho…</p>
<p>Hand grading it usually doesn’t do anything.One of my friends got a 3, even though the practice test our teacher gave he got a solid 5, and was an A student in that class. I calculated that misbubbling halfway through would lead to roughly the necessary drop from a 5 to a 3. A similar thing probably happened to you, but I doubt that they will change your score. Sorry to be cynical. Best of luck!</p>
<p>Wow, that certainly is surprising.
I would try to pay the additional fee for hand-grading. If they find out that they made an error, you will be reimbursed, if not, you’ll just lose your money. It’s always worth a try.
Don’t worry too much about this AP grade!</p>
<p>Well I just found out what the problem was. And I feel like the stupidest, most moronic person in the world cos I’m the only idiot that did this:
I bubbled in the letters next to the answers on the ACTUAL EXAM. Nobody told me there was a separate multiple choice sheet! I studied for it at home and I had been going over the 2006 released exam, assumed those little letters in parenthesis were what I was supposed to bubble in, and proceeded that way during the actual thing. And then my brother tells me that maybe I skipped a bubble on the multiple choice sheet, which would throw everything off, and that’s how I figured out why I got a 1.
Which really, really sucks cos I knew most of the stuff on there. I tallied them up in my extra time and I got at the very least fifty right. Not exactly a five, but still…</p>
<p>Wow, I feel bad for you. Sorry.
Was this your first AP? What grade were you in? </p>
<p>You’ll have more chances to get 5s. :)</p>
<p>I would call and see if they have the test itself and if they’ll take the answers from that. May say no, but worth a try! </p>
<p>Tough situation! I hope you only took one AP test, so you didn’t repeat your mistake multiple times.</p>
<p>Maybe you misbubbled?</p>
<p>^He already explained. To the OP, you could self study this course again next year and take the AP Exam again. Shouldn’t be too hard if you already took the class this year.</p>
<p>probably misbubbled on the answer sheet…which is extremely unfortunate. as people have said…you could try getting them to hand grade it…but if you somehow filled in answers wrong…i dont possibly see what they could do about it…maybe your high school APush teacher didnt prepare you enough…you could of gotten a 100 in AP US…but if his tests aren’t AP style…theres no way you couldve performed well without using collegeboard practice tests…just a thought. thats all.</p>
<p>there are two forms of the US History exam, it’s possible that you bubbled the wrong form. I would call and pay the money to have them rescore it if you’re sure you did better.</p>
<p>^He already explained.
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<p>OP, your proctor did not explain that you had to bubble in the answers on the answer sheet provided to have your exam graded? Or did you not read the front of the booklet where it said that answers in the booklet would not be graded??</p>
<p>I suggest retaking it next year. Was this your first time taking an AP test?</p>
<p>^Even if it was OP’s first time taking an AP test, I fail to see how such an error could have been made, unless he/she did not listen to directions or read the cover of the booklet. It just doesn’t make any sense.</p>
<p>Retake it next year. This experience could make for a good (comical perhaps?) college essay… assuming you get a 5 on the retake, that is. Don’t worry about this more than you have to.</p>
<p>I’m so sorry! That’s terrible. Maybe CB will do something, but if not (they probably throw that stuff out anyways) maybe retake the exam.</p>