<p>AP Spanish part 1 was so bad… We complained that we weren’t prepared enough. That we never finished “Cuarto Mysterioso” like the teacher promised. More like an inside joke of the class.</p>
<p>I did the Kim Jong-Un thing, so in my last APUSH FRQ, I wrote:</p>
<p>“Due in part to protests, and the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un something something something”, but crossed out the Kim Jong-Un part.</p>
<p>During the APUSH this year, the fire alarms went off… So, everyone had to leave the testing rooms and go outside with the rest of the school. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many people nervous about a test before. But then again, if there was a possibility that I would have to retake the APUSH test during my summer break, I’d be pretty nervous/ stressed too. Luckily I was able to take it a year before I was supposed to :D</p>
<p>For my AP-Micro exam, there was a question on consumption and I literally drew a mural that pictorially represented everything and told a funny story (well not really funny, but still,.) and then annotated it with words to explain. </p>
<p>And for My AP-Psych exam this year the fire alarm went off for a drill and the proctor just told us to keep testing.</p>
<p>On my Psychology exam for the second Free-Response question, when turning the pages, I somehow skipped the page where the question first appeared and the whole first sheet of lined paper and wrote my response starting on the page with the reprint of the question and half a page of lined paper. When reading over my responses, I noticed this and FREAKED OUT, thinking the graders would give me a zero for “not writing anything,” so I scribbled out most of the blank page and wrote on the bottom something like “Response starts on the next page.” </p>
<p>The English Language exam was the day before our prom, and our school typically makes that a teacher in-service day. Needless to say, walking in to the school was a bit weird, and, on our break, I ran into my APUSH teacher and talked with him for a bit. Also, during the exam we heard sirens speeding past the school. Typical–our school isn’t in the best neighborhood–but they kept coming and coming. I seem to recall there was a huge fire, but I can’t remember exactly what happened. Also, there was one girl who was the last one done and we were all staring at her waiting for her to finish her last essay. Time was almost up anyway, but we were all anxious to go home. (Me to go wait to pick up my tux) Two of my friends had to RUN to the afternoon room for their Stats exam.</p>
<p>APUSH was just full of people wanting to get out of the final. I’m pretty sure at least one of them SHOULD have had to taken the final anyway (they didn’t really try) but I doubt he had to. Nothing really funny happened, other than after the exam, a few of the “best” kids, including myself, were taken to be filmed for the commercial for my school. I had to go to my locker and get ALL of my textbooks and AP Prep Books to split up among the kids–I carried my APUSH book. The proctor began to recognize me and asked me questions…</p>
<p>AP World was rather uneventful. I just remember freaking out that I wasn’t going to finish the Multiple Choice section. All of those text-based questions took forever. I did end up answering all of them though.</p>
<p>Our AP Spanish test room was in the middle of a bunch of middle school classrooms, cause there were only 3 people taking the test. As a result, it was really loud in there. Also, announcements kept coming on. So the proctor called the main office to try to get announcements turned off, DURING while we were trying to read/listen… in Spanish. So distracting. I kept plugging my ears and trying to read, and after I thought she couldn’t possibly still be on the phone, I would unplug my ears and she was still talking. Ugh. She was so loud and talkative the whole time.</p>
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<p>Hehe I was the only person taking AP Physics C, both parts (E&M has its own special time slot and everything…) I showed up early and stuck my head into another room with about 50 people taking, I think, AP Lit, looking for a proctor. Everybody stared at me–lol, most of them knew me though. We went to this empty classroom and the proctor stared at me through both exams. I took pity on her and finished E&M about an hour early. Happiest proctor I’ve ever seen in my life. Not at all according to the rules. Thankfully they were both 5s or I’d have regretted it!</p>
<p>During APUSH this year, I accidentally knocked over the proctor’s thermos of coffee (with no lid on…) during the break. I felt horrible, since it was early in the morning and I’m sure she needed the coffee to stay awake during the free response section, but she wasn’t in the room at the time for me to let her know/apologize (we had two proctors so the other one was taking a shift watching us) so I just cleaned up the mess, put the thermos back where it was, and went back to my seat. About 20 minutes into the free response I looked up and saw the look of horror on her face as she picked up the thermos and realized that it was completely empty. She looked around the room with an “I’m going to kill whoever did this” look but fortunately no one alerted her that I was the one who had spilled it (I think the whole class saw what had happened). </p>
<p>I think that’s the only funny story I can think of… I’ve taken 7 so far but for the most part AP exams are just horribly painful experiences :P</p>
<p>Edit: just thought of something else. Not really a “funny” story but it is an uncomfortable situation in one of our testing rooms. For two of my exams this year, we were right next to the special education room. We have a few kids at our school who scream very frequently so at least once every 5 minutes during the test we were hearing extremely loud screaming through the paper-thin walls. The proctor was very apologetic about the situation both times, and I don’t think it ended up affected my focus either time, but some kids complained about not being able to concentrate.</p>
<p>Two years ago I took ap world history. It was many people’s first ap exam, myself included. My friend and I along with three other people were the only ones in the room about five minutes before the test started. The room was supposed to be filled with 40 kids. They were standing outside waiting for someone to escort them in.( we don’t take ap tests at our school)</p>
<p>I got confused about the extra label for the calc exam and ended up looking quite dumb.</p>
<p>During the apush test last year, the proctor kept time for the multiple choice section based on the time on her iPad instead of the time on the clock. However, she didn’t tell us this. So she called time 5 minutes before the clock said we should be done. Someone pointed this out to her. She had us pass the booklets back to their owner and gave everyone five more minutes. Oops.</p>
<p>I’m not exactly sure how funny this is but I took the AP Human Geo test in 2012 and I went into the testing room planning to fail (I hadn’t paid a whole lot of attention in the class). However, the first question had to do with walls (something I could have done without taking the class), the second question had to do with the only concept I actually remembered, and I know I got some points on the third question because it asked to identify some common countries. Somehow I passed but I know nearly nothing about Human Geography.</p>
<p>During the WHAP exam this year I had a long rectangular table that I shared with my friend. The table was wobbly and since we are both pretty fidgety test takers the table was nearly diagonal by the end of the first part. The proctor told us not to “Straddle” the table legs so hard. </p>
<p>A few kids were actually crying after the AP Chemistry exam this year…Haha…(I was crying on the inside).</p>
<p>My teacher once told us that someone wrote the free response in C++ during the AP Computer Science Exams, which is supposed to be written in Java. Apparently from what I heard, he got them all right, but just the wrong language and thus, didn’t score too well.</p>
<p>Another story would be how some kid try to tape a five dollar bill in the free response question and wrote in big letters (Here’s a 5 for a 5). Obviously, he got his test revoked. I did not think anyone would be that dumb to bribe the person scoring.</p>