What score would a 50 out of 60 get me with average scores on FRQs?</p>
I emailed you!</p>
McCain-Feingold act is iffy now, so it probably won’t be on there. most of it was overturned in a supreme court ruling I think last January or summer</p>
THough I don’t have a student taking AP US GOV, I watched a program on CSPAN/Saturday eve.</p>
It was a test prep program for AP US GOV… 2 teachers were on the panel and they took questions from students who are preparing for the upcoming test… Not sure if anyone else saw it… </p>
They also mentioned a website to help all of you crammers study…</p>
[url=<a href=“http://www.citizenU.org%5DCitizenU%5B/url”>http://www.citizenU.org]CitizenU[/url</a>] I hope this helps you guys out!!! Good luck and may you all be free of stress. anxiety and kick some buttl! Remember, these tests are like a game… and its your job to WIN!</p>
I replied. Do you have a rubric/answer sheet for the test?</p>
Also does anyone have a rubric or an example paper (you know a sheet with example responses scored from 1-9) for the FRQs? I’ll trade my 2002 MCs for that.</p>
edit: yeah the soft money/hard money portions of McCain-Feingold were overturned by Citizens United in January of last year. So groups may spend as much soft money as they please.</p>
<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
thats the updated one.</p>
Can someone please explain the difference of soft money and hard money to me? And what senatorial courtesy means? I keep getting confused over that! </p>
Do we have to know the formal amendment processes? Those are quite confusing to me. :3</p>
Soft money is unlimited money spent on ads, fliers etc. Hard money is money that is capped and donors have to disclose where they receive their money.</p>
Senatorial courtesy is when one or two of the senators from a state approve a president’s decision to appoint someone to a federal vacancy in that state. This typically applies to district court judges.</p>
Amendment process…</p>
<li>Bill gets proposed in House or Senate</li>
<li>Gets brought to appropriate committee in one of the two branches</li>
<li>If committee approves the bill gets sent to the entire House or Senate</li>
<li>If bill passes with 2/3 vote then it gets sent to the other branch of congress</li>
<li>Goes through the appropriate committee in that branch</li>
<li>Then gets sent to the entire House or Senate</li>
<li>If bill passes with 2/3 vote then it gets sent to president</li>
<li>Otherwise, if the bill gets rejected in that branch than either nothing can be done about the bill or the bill can get taken to a conference committee where members of the two branches fix up the bill to each others liking. If this happens, then it has to go through the House and Senate again.</li>
<li>President can approve a bill and sign it into law immediately</li>
<li>President can veto the bill, where then the bill will get sent back to Congress and will need a 2/3 vote to override the presidential veto</li>
<li>President can wait 10 days until Congress has adjourned, and if he doesn’t sign the bill by then then it turns into a pocket veto</li>
<li>Presidents don’t have the right of a line-item veto, although state governors do</li>
</ul>
Meh… @sliang just go watch “I’m just a bill” on YouTube</p>
My understanding of this is hard money is money that goes to campaigns where an individual is mentioned while soft money is money the educates voters about issues but doesn’t tell them who to vote for.
[HowStuffWorks</a> “What’s the difference between soft and hard money campaign contributions?”](<a href=“What's the difference between soft and hard money campaign contributions? | HowStuffWorks”>What's the difference between soft and hard money campaign contributions? | HowStuffWorks)
The McCain-Feingold act limited soft money but still allowed issue advocacy from pacs and interest groups while feca limited hard money which got adverted by soft money. FECA came before mccain-feingold.
I may be wrong though.</p>
i learned it as follows: soft money is unregulated funds and are affiliated with 527 organizations meaning it affects teh campaign indirectly.
hard money is regulated and is directly affiliated with the campaign.
my teacher also gave us an example like if a candidate says “I am ______, and I approve this message”, then it is hard money
if the candidate just says vaguely, “Be sure to vote on election day” then it is soft money</p>
Hm, fiscal policy would be nice. I’m sorta nervous. This year the FRQs seem to be pretty hard.</p>
Ah I’m nervous D: I took 3 practice tests and on each on I got 55/60 or higher… then I just took one now and I got 44/60.
How many correct would you guys say you need for a 5? On the multiple choice at least.</p>
Thank you everybody who answered me! I’m watching [High</a> School U.S. Government Exam - C-SPAN Video Library](<a href=“http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SchoolUS]High”>http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SchoolUS) right now, and it helped me understand soft money more and how 527 groups work!</p>
Soft money: limited to $2400 per election to give to your favored politican
527: if you’re a “fat cat” (rich) and you want to help your favored politician, you can go out and advertise them yourself instead of giving your money directly to the politician. So instead of giving $2400 max to them, you can spend unlimited money on posters, pins, etc. to advertise the politician on your own!</p>
What is gerrymandering and how does it affect policymaking? How does the Supreme Court justify gerrymandering?</p>
*<strong><em>Voter turnout questions seem to be a big part of the MC!</em></strong></p>
I would shoot for a 50+ for sure, for the new scoring guidelines I could’ve gotten a 52/60 on the 02 exam and a 4/4/5/6 on those essays and still get a low 5. Ah I’m seriously freaking out about the FRQs though…hopefully it’s nothing extremely erratic. The good thing though is that if necessary I can BS a lot of stuff and hopefully get a few points from it.</p>
I’m the only person taking it at my school - going to be an intense testing experience. For the FRQ do you just insert any relevant facts you can think of or try to answer the questions as concisely as possible? Like for example, I took AP Psych and they always tell us to just answer the question and don’t provide additional details because we don’t get points for anything other than what they ask us. But for all the FRQ’s I’ve looked up for Gov they always seem in depth and mention a lot of examples from history/court cases/political philosophies to back up what they’re saying.</p>
@Shathdra, yea my teacher said just put anything you know about the topic in the FRQ because you never know, something you might say may actually give you a point. I’m not going to write essays though, I’m just going to go bullet by bullet and put anything that I know about the topic down, while trying to sound as impressive as possible. Do we get a reading period for gov?
@sliang Gerrymandering is when the state legislators redistrict congressional districts in order to group voters together (a voter bloc) and make it easier for the majority party of the state legislator to win votes for the next elections. Supreme Court has justified gerrymandering by basically saying that it’s OK as long as it doesn’t promote a specific minority on purpose, it can only promote a party. You may also want to look over Baker v Carr, Wesberry v Sanders, and Reynolds v Simms. Those are all cases dealing with congressional districts.</p>
Does anyone know if getting around 55/60 MC right and decent FRQ will get me a 4 on this thing?</p>
That should get you a 5.</p>
More on campaign finance…</p>
So the FECA Act of 1974 was meant to set limits on campaign financing. Presidents up for election could receive public funding as long as they agreed to stay within limits. This caused the unintended rise of PACs (Political Action Committees). PACs collect soft money which can only be used to sponsor a political party, not an individual candidate. PACs can donate up to $15,000 to a national party. PACs are often trade associations or labor unions. An alternative to PACs are 527 groups, which can donate unlimited amounts of money to a party or candidate. </p>
Individuals can also donate money to campaigns themselves in the form of hard money. Hard money is regulated by the FEC. Individuals are limited to only donating about $2,000 to an individual politician, $30,000 to a national party, and $5,000 to a PAC.</p>
The BCRA or McCain-Feingold Act of 2002 was meant to limit soft money’s role in campaigns. It made it so that national parties and organizations themselves cannot use soft money, but PACs and 527s can. (Correct me if I’m mistaken…). But the act was brought up again in 2010 and it removed most of the limitations that it originally set in place.</p>
The court case Buckley vs. Valeo had to do with if it was constitutional to set spending limits on campaigns. It ruled that it was unconstitutional because spending and contributing money to political parties, organizations, and individuals was a form of free speech.</p>