first, everyone should know there was no penalty for wrong answers. so why would tyou skip any?</p>
second, were the q and r tests of the multiple choice the same. because in my class everyone who had q said it was hard and who ever had r said it was expected.</p>
I had R and my friend had Q. We both thought it was easy and we discussed questions that we both had. I just think the order was different because I remember looking over and seeing a political cartoon on the left page of the booklet when I had it on the right.</p>
I literally banged my head on the table when I saw the DBQ. Luckily, I was prepared for the topic since I had skimmed through AMSCO yesterday and managed a good enough amount of details for the test. Otherwise, I’m laughing at everyone else in my class who took the test since our teacher never even got through World War II - he’s not a bad teacher, but he treats our class like an Honors course more than an AP course, seeing as we never wrote a practice DBQ or even an FRQ in class - and I am quite confident everyone but maybe one or two people did no outside studying.</p>
Anyway, I thought the multiple choice was pretty easy. I agree that there were some questions that were obnoxiously difficult and others with more than one answer that seemed to work. I’m pretty confident I got at least 75% of the questions right, since the majority were just fact recall.</p>
For the free-response section, I did questions 3 and 5. I thought the questions weren’t too bad, though I felt I was pressed for time since I spent a little more than I should have on the DBQ. Heck, I didn’t even write a conclusion for the last essay since I ran out of time. My main concern is that I did not go into enough analysis, but I am confident I got at least a 5 on all three of my essays, luckily also enough for a 5 on the exam as a whole.</p>
For question number three, did anyone argue that the “groups” DIDN"T contribute to “what the other part of the question asked”?</p>
I think the multiple choice was pretty easy, but the essays killed me. I did 2 and 5, but my class hadn’t even gotten to Nixon and I had forgotten much about slavery in that time period. Can anyone guess my potential scores (please be honest)?</p>
DBQ:
-My thesis was that nixon approached international and domestic policies effectively but that it was overshadowed by the scandal and secrecy in his career.
-I talked about detente, vietnamization, the controversy surrounding cambodia (riots in Kent State), I talked about the Arab Oil Embargo but basically what it said in the document because i didn’t remember much about it.
-I didn’t talk about much of the home front, I mentioned the voting rights act (again, because of the document) but that was basically it (i completely blacked out).
-I talked about watergate in a lot of detail (it was the last thing i read before the exam). </p>
FRQ1 (2):
-I talked about middle passage/triangular trade, the south’s reliance on slavery, how it remained that way also because whites believed they were more civilized and tried to impose their religion, and stono uprising.
-I didn’t mention indentured servitude.
-I basically told a story (harsh conditions, etc)</p>
Did I completely bomb them?</p>
does anyone know if the Q version and R version are curved separately?</p>
Keep in mind that the curve for USH has traditionally been really generous. That may change with the removal of the guessing penalty, but if this test were administered last year (with the curve last year), the following results would still give you a 5 (amazingly):</p>
MCQ: 55 / 80
DBQ: 3 / 9
FRQ1: 7 / 9
FRQ2: 7 / 9</p>
Okay one question really bothered me… I know we’re not allowed to discuss MC but you guys have already violated the 48 hour rule about the FRQ’s… so I’ll just give a hint…</p>
That policy that a certain country may have had with a certain, oriental country in a certain period about 100 years ago… The question on that had three options that I’ve seen as definitions in different texts and review books… I chose the most simple one about “equal access to markets”… That question was quite annoying. As was one about the trend of immigration with the picture…</p>
</p>
I highly doubt it. I’m almost 100% sure they were the same test in a different order.</p>
Can somebody please tell me if I was right on essay 2? (slavery)</p>
I wrote about southern dependence on plantation (VA and SC) that required huge labor force on both ind. servants and slavery. (I also put that SC was the first colony that had more african americans than white population… not sure if this was true lol) Then I moved on to Bacon’s rebellion and how growing fear towards indentured servants influenced dramatic increase of slaves.
I was confident until the third part, where I couldn’t think of any slavery issue before 1776… So I kinda “made up” a story saying “slaves participated in Britain/Loyalist side during Rev. war because British offered freedom if they did.” (I think this was for native Americans, but I really didn’t have any choice…) what do you guys think? Oh, and I couldn’t recall any of the specific years, so I just put “in early 18th century” for most of the events. Help!</p>
Here it goes:
MC- 45/80 (I’m being generous here, I want to know the LOWEST I can get)
DBQ- 7 (I talked about everything except SALT and War Powers Act, I talked about how shah of Iran fell and that led to oil embargo which led to energy crisis)
FR#2- 6 (not too much details here other than Triangle trade, triangle/atlantic passage, Denmark Vesey, uprising in Cuba (or Haiti whichever one it was), slaves were not allowed to learn (used Douglass here because I read a little blurb in the book that said that Douglass was taught by the master’s mistress, but was punished by the master).
FR#5- 4 (would’ve been much higher if I had more time. Wrote 2 pages of WEB DuBois, Booker T. Washington, MLK, Malcolm X, SDS, Black Powers, and Watts California)
Any idea what this score is? I need at least a 4. My history teacher promised us A’s for getting 4’s or 5’s</p>
@Interficio
Those were the exact problems that drove me crazy on the test. I answered the same as you for the first one and, for the second, I had absolutely no idea what to make of the graph, so I chose the answer about quotas.</p>
Honestly, it seemed like, for a majority of the questions, more than one answer could easily be right. More-so than any of the previous exams that I’ve taken. </p>
Also, there were way too many questions on post-Cold War stuff. We never made it there in my class…</p>
@Confused93 PLANTATIONS ARE A NO-NO… It’s up to the American Revolution which means the main crops were tobacco and corn…</p>
My APUSH teacher was great, but he never got to teaching about Nixon. So my dbq was pretty bad. </p>
I did free responses 3 and 5. 3 was so easy for me, I think i got an 8. 5 was okay, I think i got a 5/6. </p>
MC was pretty easy, i think i got 60/80</p>
@luciDream Oh gosh, I think you’re right! I was too damn confident about the plantation paragraph, so I didn’t even proofread 
thanks!</p>
Also, how much needed to be said when you brought in outside info?? I had lots of stuff to add, but I didn’t want to take the time/space to explain each issue - my teacher always said that summarizing events is the WORST thing to do on an essay.</p>
I would just mention things in passing, like just adding in the Watts Riots without describing them (more their effects).</p>
No problem… I almost said plantations too… But then I thought back and I was like, cotton gin wasn’t invented until 1794 (can’t believe I remembered that at that time).
Without cotton gin, cotton was not a major crop in the South. Also, textile mills weren’t invented for a while, so cotton wouldn’t have made too much money anyways.</p>
@lucidream: According to the AP Pass calculator you would get a 4… However, i dont really know how accurate it truly is.</p>
@ohgoodness
Jebus. The link is on the site…
[AP</a> Central - Multiple-Choice Scores](<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)</p>
For outside information I said:
Shah of Iran was overthrown which caused the energy crisis (more emphasis on energy crisis since shah was overthrown in the 50’s)
Vietnamization and Nixon Doctrine
University of Kent State
Pentagon Papers
… forgot what else I did…</p>
@luciDream: ow man… What do you think of the rice plantation in south carolina? Was it after rev.war too? I’m totally lost with the time frame! :(</p>