I just have to say this about the MC portion: studying DH the night before saved my ass. Some questions were word for f------- word out of that book. I honestly felt reading that book was almost cheating. Can other DH readers confirm this?</p>
Damnit, for FRQ 4 I wrote Marbury v. Madison when I actually meant Plessy v. Ferguson. Why the hell do I do these things! The rest of it was fine though.</p>
No worries man… I did something similar to that TWICE in ONE essay… lol.</p>
As long as we explained it clearly, I don’t think the AP reader will be too evil about it, haha.</p>
In my case, I explained a revolution, but I gave it a different name than one I intended, so yeah, I’m in the same situation as you.</p>
two points</p>
about bacons rebellion and indentured servitude. I think that this should definitely have been put in the essay, i put it in, because indentured servitude was the perquisite of slavery and this revolt showed the problems caused by indentured servitude and the need for a different labor force which could be more easily dealt with, eventually leading to slavery.</p>
Secondly i also did the same thing, I said Shays rebellion instead of bacon’s rebellion but still got my point accross. Do examiners take points off for mistaken details even if the point is valid? Don’t just consider my case.</p>
I felt that the MC had a lot of freebie questions, but any of the hard ones were just REALLY hard. Im feeling okay, but there was way too much on post-ww2</p>
The DBQ killed me. My number one rule is don’t panic, but i panicked for sure. the only two things i remembered about nixon was watergate and cold war, hahah. After reading the documents i was able to get more outside evidence, but not nearly enough as I would have been able to if i was further back in history.</p>
I did FRQ’s 2 and 4, which is what the majority of my class did as well. We did a practice essay yesterday just like #2, except that that one specified slaves in the south while this was all of it. that was a great refresher. And for 4, I feel like there was just a lot of comparing and contrasting i could do, it was nice.</p>
Ya I had some good outside information. But I completely forgot about SALT. and I wasn’t sure if War Poers Act was Nixon so i didn’t include it. But I did talk about Silent Spring and how it led to Nixon creating the EPA. I thought the environment was a strong point that most people would forget about it</p>
Can someone help me with my potential score?
I’m not sure how to grade my DBQ/FRQs (I did 2 and 5.)
I probably did horribly though.</p>
Multiple Choice: ~60/80</p>
DBQ:
- I said Nixon was involved in the Gulf of Tonkin (it was actually Johnson.)
- I said that the silent majority wanted Nixon to increase his participation in the Vietnam war (they actually favored gradual withdrawal.)
- I talked about hawks/doves.
- I said the Cambodia attack was the end of the Vietnam War (?)
- I talked about “Vietnamization.”
- I didn’t talk about the Great Society, but I did talk about economic issues (because of the documents.)
- I didn’t talk about SALT
- I didn’t talk about CLEP
- I talked about the Wars Powers Act
- I talked about the Watergate Affair… but I said that it started because Nixon was suspicious of people (?)
- I talked about detente.
- I used all but one DBQ. Oh, and the way I referred to DBQs was putting the letter in parentheses after the sentence that I mentioned information said in the DBQ. But I only quoted one DBQ. Is that okay? Does it count?</p>
FRQ 2:
- I didn’t mention indentured servants.
- I talked about the triangular trade/middle passage.
- I talked about tobacco (John Rolfe, Pocahontas), then cotton (cotton gin, textiles).
- I said slavery was cheap labor for tobacco and cotton.
- I didn’t talk about the legalization of slavery in 1700.
- I didn’t talk about any revolts/rebellions either.
- I was storytelling. </p>
FQR 5:
- I mixed up the eras.
- I put Black Panthers, Black Mormons and Black Power in the 1800s.
- I put that MLK was the main leader in 1900 and that people in the 1900s mainly had one goal, which was to be equal.
- For 1800s, I described BP/BM/BP/W.E.B./B.T.W/NAACP/NASCP.
- W.E.B. and B.T.W. I explained pretty well…
- I mentioned Greensboro sit-in for 1900s and the Montgomery bus thing…
- I talked about Letters from Birmingham Prison (MLK)</p>
So Basically, for my DBQ and FQRs, I forgot to mention important information and I mixed some things up. Please be honest with my possible score…</p>
I liked about two thirds of the multiple choice but think I got about 10-20 wrong possible more or less…the thing that annoyed me was the very random culture facts like kerouac!</p>
The dbq was ok, mine was short (almost two pages), but I thought it was well writeen and made sense, I used some of the ap english writing techniques.</p>
I did 2/4 for the frq. Number two was almost exactly the same thing my class had to wirte about for a summer work essay ( :</p>
I think I did ok on 4. I had a mini heart attack with about ten minutes left when I misread the dates to be 1910-1920 rather than 1910s and 1920s! </p>
I can’t believe scores don’t come out until mid-July…I won’t be home until August grr!</p>
I feel like this test was really made to mess with our heads.</p>
MC- there were questions with really obvious answers, and then there were questions that were so trivial. I know I got at least 10 wrong. Hoping for 55/80!!!</p>
DBQ- This really caught me off guard cause I thought it would be Gilded Age, Progressive Era, WWs, or the Civil War/Reconstruction. Nixon was so recent and late into the course!!! But thank goodness I kind of skimmed though it yesterday. I used all the documents except for the one with the African Americans/Voting Rights I think. I only used Vietnamization (how Tet offensive convinced America to withdraw troops -somewhere along those lines), Watergate scandal, Pentagon papers (N.Y. Times v. U.S. and how Nixon administration didn’t allow them to publish the info about the troops in Vietnam). I MESSSED UP ON ONE TERM!! 
I wrote stagnation instead of stagflation, but I’m pretty sure my definition was right. How much would I be penalized for this? </p>
FRQ2- I also wrote about indentured servants and how they were unreliable and unable to adapt to the harsh manual labor and the hot climates in the tobacco fields. So fieldowners turned to slavery instead cause they were familiar with the hot weather, manual labor, lifetime commitment to the field, and they were cheap labor. But I’m starting to doubt myself cause of what people are saying on this thread!! I didn’t write about any rebellions cause I thought the question was asking us to analyze the ORIGINS and the DEVELOPMENT of slavery!</p>
FRQ5- I don’t think I did well on this one cause I blanked out and didn’t know how to structure it. I remember using Booker T. Washington (but my friend told me he wasn’t in that period they suggested!) and W. E. B. Du Bois (I wrote W. E. Bois :(((( would I be penalized for that?) for the first time period they gave us. And I used MLK and Malcolm X for the second time period. I just wrote about how Booker T. and MLK were for nonviolent protests while W. E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X supported using violence to demand equal rights. I think I got a 2 for this essay :’(((((</p>
Really hoping for a 4. Now on to SAT2 review!</p>
How does SAT II compare to AP and how will it compare SPECIFICALLY with this Test?</p>
In my essay for two I talked about how the cotton gin increased the slave population…the cotton gin wasn’t invented until 1793…uh-oh. How much do little things like that hurt you? It wasn’t the whole essay, but it was a point, and was included in my thesis.</p>
What FRQs did you guys pick??</p>
^2 and 5, like most of my friends.</p>
DH saved my ****ing ass.</p>
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I mentioned this in another thread, but a friend of mine got a 3 on the AP test, took the SAT II months later without prep, and still got a 750. It’s supposedly a LOT easier, since it’s not just aimed at kids who took the AP course.</p>
As for the AP test, MC was harder than I thought it would be, but it wasn’t terrible. I could at least narrow down most of the ones I wasn’t 100% sure about (and a lot of them were pretty obvious), but there were some that I was absolutely clueless about. The DBQ was easy (I had TONS of outside information, although I couldn’t remember any of his specific Great Society programs - I just mentioned the fact that he continued some of them) and FRQs were alright; I picked 3 and 5 and felt a bit more confident about the latter. Overall, I’m expecting no less than a 4.</p>
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Who told you that? The period was 1890-1920 and Booker T. gained popularity after the Atlanta Address of 1895. You’re fine if you mentioned him (or at least I hope so, because I basically just talked about him and W.E.B. Du Bois for that time period…).</p>
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Uh, the Form 4HBP DBQ was on Nixon, not Johnson.</p>
I think I had a lot of good info on all three of my essays. For the DBQ, I wrote out an entire paragraph on Detente/Ping Pong Diplomacy, a half-paragraph summarizing from Korean War to Nixon’s Vietnam, a few mentions of the Yom Kippur War, and Ellsburg/Woodward/Pentagon Papers. For the slavery FR, I didn’t have THAT much stuff: just stuff about European exploration, Bacon’s Rebellion, joint-stock company, Stono Rebellion. For the black leaders FR, I made specific mentions of the Atlanta Compromise speech, Garvey’s UNIA/Black Star Line, the SCLC, Stokley Carmichael and the SNCC, and the Black Panthers of the 1960’s.</p>
Called OPEC OPEG, mixed Shay’s rebellion with Bacon’s, and said Kent State massacre was because of racial issues. Otherwise GG. Easy going.</p>
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I meant the Great Society programs that Nixon continued after Johnson’s presidency (EPA, AFDC, SSI, etc., none of which I specifically remembered while taking the exam…cough) and I said that in the essay.</p>
MC: Missed ~4-15 (accounting for those that you miss without even thinking you’ll miss them)
I didn’t think anything was overly obscure but the post 70’s material definitely had a greater presence than in previous exams, but it was more fact recall than analytical. </p>
FRQ’s were a godsend… DBQ was very easy for most people… mentioned watergate, silent majority, detente, credibility gap he gained from LBJ, counterculture movements hindering him, vietnamization, expansion of war to cambodia, SALT, etc. My DBQ read like an analytical narrative. It’s a 9 if I ever deserved one… also mentioned how despite being defined by his public shame, nixon showed great flexibility in his transformation from tough anti-commie in HUAC to willing diplomat, paving the way for thaws in the cold war.</p>
I did essay 3 rather than 2 like most people… my appraoch was that Political parties during that period hindered national unity (for the most part) and established a trend of political stagnation that would haunt the rest of american history until today… used adams/hamilton/jefferson/madison/monroe/jacks/quincy adams/clay, national bank, era of good feelings, war of 1812 and used war of 1812 to show the trend of the effects that war have upon party politics which is also seen in later time periods… Good essay but not the clearest… 7-9 range… most likely a 7 because it doesnt read too smoothly.</p>
I chose 5 for the second part… used washington/dubois/garvey and all their respective ideas and showed how they transferred to the 50’s/60’s with MLK, huey newton, carmichael, malcom X and that garvey’s radical views gaining greater prevalence is later times reflected the frustration of social stagnation. I ended by stating that most of them were unsuccessful because they polarized the races, believing blacks must be inherently as odds or in struggle with whites in some way, while MLK had the most effect because he unified rather than polarized… I mentioned all the major figures and their beliefs and organizations and speeches but not resulting civil changes or acts, so it wasn’t overly detailed but it was very good. I say 7-9 range again, most likely 8.</p>
I thought the MC were kind of easy, except for the questions about religion. Our class mostly studied social history anyways so it was good. I’m expecting 60/80 at the least.</p>
When I read the DBQ, my heart skipped a beat. It was a beautiful feeling. I wrote my research paper on Vietnam so it helped a lot. I talked about Vietnam, public opposition to it and Vietnamization, bombing of Cambodia, Nixon making foreign releations better (China) and how the Yom Kippur War in '73 lead to the oil crisis (NOT OPEC, that was Carter). I really had nothing on domestic though, other than Watergate. I talked about busing even though I couldn’t remember how Nixon felt about it, but I think it was a flaw with Nixon that he didn’t do too much on the home front. I definitely forgot about SALT and the War Powers Act, though. Hopefully that won’t hurt me too much though.</p>
I seem to be the minority on the FRQs though and went with the 3/4 route. I couldn’t remember anything about slavery pre-Revolution so I had to go with the political parties essay. I didn’t know much about that though, so I just said that political parties divided the country into the north and south and that it weakened rather than unified the nation, even though the issues at the federal helped bring the states together to confer.</p>
I thought 4 was easier than 5 because although Civil Rights was a huge part of the curriculum, I couldn’t think of certain political leaders and what they did, especially in the earlier years. Immigration was easy. Old immigrants v. New immigrants. I didn’t have much on 1840s-50s, but I had a lot on the 1910s-20s like city conditions, political machines, quotas, and how they were a source of cheap labor.</p>
I’m hoping for a 6-7 on the DBQ, a 4-5 on FRQ3, and a 6-7 on FRQ4.</p>
I’m really glad the course was divided into two years at my school. It definitely helped.</p>
MC - Wasn’t too bad, I’m guessing 60-70 correct.
DBQ - Not as good as some of you guys, but probably a solid 6-7. Vietnam War, detente, stagflation, Watergate. Domestic paragraph wasn’t as good as the international part of my essay…
FR B - Picked 2; it was the lesser of two evils. Bacon’s Rebellion, indentured servants, then some random stuff about southern economy and geography. Prediction: 3-4, maybe 5.
FR C - Picked 5. I knew more than I did on #2, but I don’t think I did well on this one either. DuBois/Washington and MLK Jr/Malcolm X. Guessing 4-5.</p>
The curves I’ve seen (from the CB scoring worksheet things that account for no penalty) are 111 and 119 (out of 180), but I highly doubt it’ll be as high as those this year, since the MC this year is apparently harder than the MC on both of those tests.</p>
(If I take a conservative guess at how I did, it would be 60, 5, 3, 4, for a 109 so I’m pretty worried. Our teacher didn’t prepare us well enough for FRQs. >_<)</p>