can we talk about mc yet?
becaues if not i probably will anyway.</p>
@JNeemz: You cannot EVER talk about the MC.</p>
They also say you can’t talk about SAT II questions EVER but there is 30 page thread for SAT II US History on CC.</p>
I’m not saying not to. I’m just answering his/her question as to when they’re allowed to be discussed. The answer is, they’re not.</p>
alright then what was the answer to the population increase in the west after ww2</p>
Hey guys, for the third FRQ I said that the political parties increased the sense of nationalism and unity. Some people said they drove the nation into sectionalism, but I believed that the country unified because of the War of 1812, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine and the Era of Good Feelings. I backed it up quite well. I also said how the federalists unified the country through the National Bank and enforced the Constitution quite well (Example: Washington’s use of forces during the Whiskey Rebellion). I didn’t really talk about sectionalism at all, I just kept it as it increased the sense of unification. Would I get a good score… like a 7-8? Or a lower one because I didn’t really talk about the 1830’s under Jackson?</p>
there was definitely sectionalism created, I acknowledged hamilton and jackson’s common man but there was a good deal of political polarization, such as alien and sedition acts… can’t remember what I wrote but you could probably take it both ways and have a good deal to talk about. Manifest destiny didn’t seem to pertain to political parties though, did it?</p>
I talked about the War Hawks in the Democratic-Republican section, like Calhoun and Clay and how the War Hawks wanted to expand, leading to the Manifest Destiny. My thesis stated that the Feds and Dem-Reps lead the country to a period of nationalism, though I am scared because I didn’t specifically talk about to what extent, but I sort of showed it in my essay. I really hope I get a good score on it because I had A LOT of outside information.</p>
@skyfiwa If you backed up your thesis, you should be in the clear! No matter what position someone takes on these essays, it is designed so that if supported by ample (true) details, they have a choice for a perfect score no matter which route they decided to take. So if you wrote a good essay about parties contributing to nationalism, you could get the same score as someone who wrote a good essay about how the parties led to sectionalism rather than nationalism.</p>
Another thing that worries me is calling the increased antiwar sentiment of the young college students the “Young American movement.” I described their intentions and the causes but the Young American movement mostly refers to the 1850’s…is this going to affect my essay at all?</p>
@skyfiwa The general rule seems to be that incorrect information on an essay doesn’t <em>take away</em> from your score unless it is huge and massive and obvious, but it just doesn’t <em>add</em> to it. Especially if you have just a few small errors, it shouldn’t really be a problem.</p>
A couple times I mentioned things at a different time period, but I specifically mentioned that it was during a different time period and it was simply a result/factor in something that happened. What will this do?</p>
@statlanta- I thought you were allowed to talk abt the SAT II questions after some hours after the exam when the embargo is lifted?</p>
lol I referred to the tumultuous sixties as the tremulous sixties…</p>
Is it necessarily a bad thing if I only talked about the watergate scandal, the EPA, and the Vietnam War as related to the dbq documents and not a whole lot of outside information?</p>
@chicken1992 If you discussed extensively those 3, and utilized a lot of documents (I always shoot to use almost all of them) you should achieve some points (it is key to remember that you can’t inherently LOSE points on AP essays, just gain). </p>
However, the DBQ directions state “High scores will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period.” Thus, I’d imagine you won’t earn a fair amount of points due to lack of outside info.</p>
does anybody know how hard it actually is to get a 9? like, has anyone spoken to a grader or seen an essay that actually got the highest possible score?</p>
You can see 3 9’s from 2009:
<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;
<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;
<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;
What exactly were domestic issues you could address in the dbq? I talked about cutting oil usage in the U.S. Does that count?</p>
yeah and the other domestic issues were the EPA, the Watergate Scandal, and the election strategies, i think.</p>