<p>I'm studying for history right now, and I'm trying to read a lot of these FRQ answers. And then I started wondering: how does an essay end up on AP Central?</p>
<p>Do they contact the people to congratulate (or scold) them for a really good (or really bad) essay? Or do you just find out that your essay is on there while browsing through AP Central nostalgically???</p>
<p>Yeah, so this might be a stupid question (I'm so sorry, my brain is total mush right now), but has anyone's essay ended up on AP Central? Was it really good or really bad??? </p>
<p>I'm actually really excited (way more than I should be) to hear these answers.</p>
<p>I don’t think they’d contact you at all. You’d just have to come across it on there. There’s a box that you can check when you do the FRQ’s to revoke their permission to use your writing as a sample.</p>
<p>Yeah, it would definitely be awesome to be scrolling through and then just see your handwriting… and then just have it hit you that you are the author of an essay that thousands of people will read… no matter how bad it is.</p>
<p>LOL I just checked for Euro and Spanish to see if I appeared… </p>
<p>I didn’t.</p>
<p>But I really want to know someone whose essay is on AP Central now. I’m asking everyone at my school :)</p>
<p>My friend today had writing on top of her free response booklet from when she took the AP Eng Lang exam last year. Collegeboard never writes on exams unless they use it for sample responses. Her essay won’t be on AP Central, unfortunately because she scored a 9 on it, a score which CB NEVER uploads for some reason. I’m guessing to avoid people copying the format or something?</p>
<p>My AP World History DBQ essay was on there for the 2010 exam. (I was the essay that scored an 8, or sample 1A. They did not contact me personally. My teacher looked up the essays on the website and he went back on mine, because he told me that they seem familiar. Once he realized that my DBQ was the same exact one on collegeboard, he took me out of my class to show me and then they made an announcment at my school, congratulating me. People just said good job and my mom got me a cake, lol. Yeah, collegeboard does not give dinners or anything special </p>
<p>But it is something cool to put on your college app. or essay, since I’m probably going to major in History.</p>
<p>Go to Google and search “AP [course name] central”, and that should bring you to the course’s homepage (usually the first result) on AP Central. Then, when you’re on the homepage, click “AP [course name] Exam Information”, and you’ll be taken to a page where you can find past FRQs and sample student responses.</p>
<p>@Interficio Your essay was GOOD! I hope I can write an essay as good as that on Thursday. How much did you prepare? And how well did you feel about your essay after you were done? While writing the essay, did you have trouble coming up with information?</p>
<p>ahah thanks! But I dont understand what word I meant when I wrote “clostedtomy”… I remember I came across the word the night before. I just prepared by studying vocab… essays just write assertion, evidence, then analysis via the statements “this was caused by…” “the significance of this is” “this follows a similar trend in _____”… Just hit the rubric points and then get the analysis points… I wouldn’t worry about world too much. It’s so broad and that question was so broad as well. I planned before hand and did the best that I could with the vague examples I came up with.</p>
<p>Lol. You probably meant clitoridectomy, that’s what I took it as anyway. I have the Kaplan WH flashcards (because that’s all that was left at Barnes and Noble), so I plan on studying those the night before.</p>
<p>I plan on practicing the 2005 FRQs tonight. Hopefully my teacher will be willing to grade them. :/</p>
<p>Anyone know when the new exemplars will be up this year? Although I probs wont be chosen again… And yeah I did mean clitoridectomy! It took me forever to remember</p>
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