<p>Okay so we are about to enter week 2 of Hell, or as it is officially called AP week/weeks (idk which one). Anyway so I thought we should take a short break from studying and share our AP realted funny/gross/interesting/whatever stories. I will go first</p>
<p>Yesterday during my AP euro test the room was super hot and smelled like a bathroom. Everyone was stressed so during the MC part of the test about 1/3 of the kids took off their shoes (adding to the smell). During the second part I talked to some kids and said "hey, it already smells like feet in here might as well get relaxed to". People joined and so during the second part of test like 95% of the kids had there shoes off. The smell was strong and after the test the teacher ran out of the room and went to the bathroom. The girls said she threw up :P</p>
<p>*Your turn! :) *</p>
<p>I was trying really hard not to laugh out loud at one of the reading passages in the AP German exam! Unfortunately I think I snorted a little while trying to suppress my laughter and my proctor gave me a weird look…</p>
<p>Mine isn’t quite as funny, but I was tired during my AP Lit test before and decided to skip writing two of the essays, drew them pictures instead, and took a cat nap. They still passed me, though!</p>
<p>drew a spongebob in my physics exam. they liked it and i passed:P</p>
<p>During my Calculus AB exam, we were in the convention center and we had these crappy tables that looked like they were from the fifties and really uncomfortable chairs that fold you back if you sit in them wrong. Well, I don’t weigh very much and apparently I was sitting in the chair wrong so basically my chair started falling back and I had that weird rollercoaster-I’m gonna die feeling and got kind of shaken up. This happened five times and everytime the people behind me were laughing at me : )</p>
<p>my friend got a bloody nose on his answer sheet… they didn’t have extra’s at the time, so i don’t know how they’re gonna turn it in, hopefully they get a new one haha</p>
<p>^that was my biggest fear during my tests!!!</p>
<p>I have another story (shorter) this kid who is really smart and got a 4 on the practice test came to the AP test and slept through the first section and the break. Let’s just say the teacher wasn’t happy :)</p>
<p>My AP Lit teacher had hung up posters with a picture of a hammer and said something like, “Use your tools and nail it.” Well, this one guy brought an actual sledgehammer to the test, keeping it on his desk throughout the whole three hours. Then, he brought the sledgehammer to the AP Euro test and as he was entering, he raised it above his head and let out a resounding battle cry. Right before the test started, he proceeded to make a prayer circle and asked God to “help us find the point of view in the documents and if we don’t know the answers, to guess wisely.” Oh, and his best friend wore a du-rag to the AP Calc test. The guidance counselor saw him and simply shook her head in contempt. Yeah, it’s been a very entertaining AP week. LOL</p>
<p>@ rococo: I’ve known some people who are exactly like that guy! Very entertaining folks for sure ;)</p>
<p>haha! yeah they really help alleviate stress, don’t they!</p>
<p>Someone at my school said “You see some of the best artwork on AP exams”, from people who don’t care and just draw pictures for 4 hours! Seems like a waste of a test to me, cause I would think you would want to at least try to pass the test.</p>
<p>What’s interesting is how many proctors don’t actually follow the instructions from the CB. I took 5 AP exams this week here, and only 1 of the proctors actually followed all the instructions and read every single part of the directions. My proctor yesterday left the room during part of the test even, although she was practically right outside the room still. She had to talk to someone and wasn’t worried about those of us taking the test because it was only 3 of us taking the AP Euro test.</p>
<p>On the AP English Lit test this year, one of the poems on the MC was one we had read in class!</p>
<p>I was the only one taking the Art History Test. The test consisted of me, the proctor, a table, and a storage closet. I sat at one end of the table, she the other in a room that was about ten by twenty and there only things in there were shelves filled with office supplies. Someone else came in halfway through the free response section looking for highlighters…
It was really awkward.</p>
<p>English Lit:
First frq/the poem was a poem i completely analyzed in 9th grade. I voluntarily chose to do a huge project on the poet and got an a on that project. My mind is photographic. Add those together and think about how I did on the 1st frq.</p>
<p>One of the multiple choice questions for the pony poem had an interesting answer choice that made me giggle.</p>
<p>APES:
We got cut off 10 minutes during the FRQ. the old man argued that he timed us correctly. The watches of 20 people say otherwise.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I bet you did well on the 1st FRQ! I didn’t think that one was bad though, pretty good I think.</p>
<p>^We almost got cut off 10 minutes early on the calculator section of the FRQ on AP Calc AB last Wednesday! So, you have a break in between the MC and FRQs on AP Calc, and the FRQs are divided into 30 minutes for 2 calculator FRQs and an hour for 4 non-calculator FRQs. We ended our break at 10:28, so the proctor wrote that on the board, and we were about to start. Then someone spilled their water bottle on the floor, got away from doing the test, etc. So it was like 10:38 when we actually started. Originally, supposed to be done at 10:58, and since we started 10 minutes later, the proctor forgot to change that. At 10:48, he says, “ok, 10 minutes left” and everyone was like “Are you sure? There’s no way!” and luckily, he believed us. We knew we were right. 10 minutes less would have been bad, since no one had even finished the 1st FRQ when the proctor incorrectly called the time period as half over.</p>
<p>@Jackyt- were you the only one taking that class at your school this year too, or just the only one that chose to take the exam? Just wondering. Up until this year, my school required people to take the exam if they took the class; now we got a choice again. And with that, another funny story: Some people didn’t know the rule changed this year at my school and thought they had to take the exam. They signed up, later found that out, they were pretty mad. That was one of my friends during both the AP English Lit and AP Euro exams, because she didn’t want to take them. She thought she was required to, and I guess that was the only reason she signed up.</p>
<p>There was a crazy storm and a bunch of power outages during my APUSH test… Along with other distractions. We were all in the gym, and it was pretty packed, probably about 100 kids. First thing that happened was the speaker system glitching when we were just started on the MC section, so we had about 5 minutes of really loud mic static until they finally got it turned off. Our band room is right by our gym and the band was in there practicing, so we got to hear that on and off throughout the whole test. And then there were maintenance people banging around up in the room/rafters the whole time, not sure what they were fixing.</p>
<p>But the best part was when the storm hit during the free response. Besides the storm being really loud, we lost power. So the backup lights came on which made it kind of dim but still possible to see, so we just kept going. Then for the rest of the test we went through cycles of power coming back on, with the lights gradually climbing in brightness and then losing power again and going back to the dim room. Needless to say, really distracting. Still could have been worse, and I’m glad it happened on a history test that I wasn’t too worried about anyway.</p>
<p>One of my best friends consistently slept through his AP World class all year and was in danger of failing the class all throughout the year. He took the exam while he was stoned, incorporated that aliens were involved during the colonial times in one essay, wrote the phrase “patriarchal society” for the last half of another essay and somehow got a 5.</p>
<p>@ naitou01: That reminds me of a thread I saw on CC a long time ago, about this guy who essentially wrote a nonsensical SAT essay and got an 11. It was so bad that I didn’t know whether to laugh or to feel despair that someone could write so much garbage and get away with a great score. Sometimes you just have to wonder what the graders are thinking…</p>
<p>Anyone who took AP Lit can testify to never being able to look at ponies the same way again.</p>
<p>@ alittlemonster: Um, what? I do remember the pony poem but I don’t recall anything that would cause me to look at them differently…</p>