<p>Let me first start by saying that the multiple choice was SOOOO much easier than my teacher’s test. I thought that the first question was so funny!!! Just barely finished in time though because of the amount of reading there was… I’m expecting 57ish / 70.</p>
<p>The DBQ was really odd, but I guess it was pretty easy since you don’t have to know anything for those. Just group and then S.T.P. for each! The only probelem was that there were 10 documents. The longest we had done in class was 8! It took me about an hour to write that one, but I’m expecting a 7 or 8. We weren’t allowed to write in the 10 minute planning period, but my teachers said beforehand that we could… so a little confused there. Did anyone else have this problem, or did my teacher just tell me wrong?</p>
<p>The CCOT essay was extremely vague, I mean they just said trade. I only had one hour after y DBQ so this essay was really rushed. Africa was the least touched region in my class, so it was fairly challenging, but I feel around a 4 / 5 / 6 depending on the grader.</p>
<p>The CC essay was SOOOO hard for me. It would have been super easy if it was just about the columbian exchange, but it specifically said we could only write about “demographic and environmental” effects. So no diseases, no food, no economics, and no trade! Just people and the environment. I talked about the transfer of plants and people as well as the deforestation caused by the plantation systems, but it was not a good essay for me and I kinda bs’ed my way through it. The good news, for me :), is that a lot of people in my class apparently strayed from demographic and environmental effects into politics, economics, and trade, so hopefully compared to others mine won’t seem as bad. I’m thinking overall a 3 / 4 / 5.</p>
<p>Overall not bad for my first AP test. Definately a long morning! But a 7 / 4 / 3 on the essays would be a 5 if my MC is good enough. The suspense will continue to grow until July 3rd!</p>
<p>I think i did okay…the dbq wasn’t that bad and the comparison was ok…but i did not like the ccot… i don’t know… but like in the booklet there are a gap of pages between my 2nd and third essay… because i skipped the 2nd essay and wrote the third one first and idk why but i skipped a bunch of pages and then wrote my third essay …and then i went back to the gap of pages and wrote my 2nd essay but that one was short so then i had a bunch of blank pages between my 2nd and 3rd essay …i hope the ap reader doesn’t just see the blank page after my 2nd essay and think that i didn’t write a 3rd essay ): but i wrote on the bottom of the pages that were in the gap between my 2nd and third essay FLIP!---------> so hopefully they see that haha but i don’t think i wrote the FLIP ----> really big…): idk …do you think the reader looks through all of the pages of the booklet? or hopefully he/she will notice the bottom of the page after my 2nd essay…? <em>sigh</em> i have to stop freaking out,lol.</p>
<p>I think disease counts as demographic, if related back to its devastation on the population. At least, I’m banking on it, as I’m sure many others are. xD I also pulled the plantation-deforestation BS, haha.</p>
<p>The APPass.com that i enetered my “possible best” grades for gave me a super low 5. I dont think its very accurate because it says to score a 4 you have to have an average of like a 60% which i always thought was the average for a 5?</p>
<p>Also @9722251, demographics means population variations. Therefore, you should have talked bout diesases that devastated the native populations of South America. Alos, you could contrast it with the maininting poulation of Africa during the slave trade, contrary to poular beliefe that demographics decreased. As long as you related it to demographics & environment- you can essentialy talk about any of the topics youre friends mentioned in their essays. MY demographics were stron, however, the environmental is where i had trouble. I explained deforestation and lack of clean water and air in Africa- but thats about it. Excpecting a 6is grade, depending on the graders mood :)</p>
<p>Disease was arguably the easiest topic you could talk about on the CC essay. Honestly, it was almost my entire essay - considering I know jack-squat about the environmental effects, lol. I think all I did was throw something about deforestation to make room for plantations or something.</p>
<p>I heard about this year’s DBQ topic from my sophomore friends, and it does sound harder than last year’s.</p>
<p>That is seriously EXCACTLY what I wrote!</p>
<p>What was the first MC question that was “so funny”?</p>
<p>It may or may not have regarded the modern day location of Mesopotamia LOL</p>
<p>MC was pretty easy, but what was up with all the questions that gave you like 2-3 paragraphs to read for 1 question? It was pretty annoying.</p>
<p>DBQ topic didn’t matter really. I think my groups were legit and I’m pretty good at POV.
CCOT=train wreck. My periodization was waaaaay off. Plus, I knew almost nothing about trade.
Comparative I guess will depend on who grades it and how specific they wanted. It was overall probably worthy of a 4-5 which will be fine as long as my DBQ and MC were as good as I thought they were.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if quantity usually correlates well with the score?
I wrote 5 paragraphs for cricket and change over time, but 4 paragraphs for columbian exchange. They were all around 3 full pages each, and when I was talking to my classmates they said they only written liked 2 paragraphs.</p>
<p>I know with the SAT quantity usually correlates to a better score though.</p>
<p>I wrote five paragraphs for DBQ, but it ended up taking seven sides… my CCOT and CC were both six paragraphs but each of those took up four sides for me. So I finished with only about one sheet left blank. :o</p>
<p>@schill22: From my experience browsing sample tests and sample essays and their scores, I would say that yes - the length of the essay correlates with a better score; although, a long essay does not necessarily mean a high score. My guess would be that having more writing means a better chance for you to hit what’s required of you. I doubt someone would be penalized for writing too much, but surely someone would be penalized for writing too little.</p>
<p>soo i may have failed my AP exam? i did well on the multiple choice, aced the DBQ, and then skipped an essay and wrote a disorganized 3rd essay. i freaked out soo bad on the free response! nerves kicked in when i realized i had 50minutes left to write 2essays because i had worked so long on the DBQ, and i entirely froze up. i hope i’ll be allowed to re-take it because i have a terrible feeling about the score i’m going to get…</p>
<p>The MC took forever… each question had like a paragraph to read. I barely finished. My teachers practice tests from previous exams were not like that at all. I felt so bad about the whole test after taking it but after a while I realized how good the curve is.</p>
<p>For the DBQ, if I didn’t write the doc# but mentioned the author of the excerpt/quoted part of the doc, that would count as discussing it, right? I had no idea how to do the DBQ before the test.</p>
<p>i did the AP pranks too! i found out like right before i went to bed the night before, but i let friends know, so one of them did the prank, too. 
get back on tinychat or chatzy somebody! my internet is finally working again.</p>
<p>What did you all do for the FRQ?</p>
<p>For my DBQ, my groups were unity, religious tensions, and better relations with Britain. </p>
<p>For CC, I said that both Africa and Europe mixed in with America’s natives to create a more diverse population such as mulattoes and mestizos. I also described how both were involved with disease in the New World. I talked about differences in that Africans were considered at the bottom in the New World, while the Europeans took top status among all. And I just kinda BSed the environment stuff. Africans forced to work on plantations, degraded the environment and crap. And how new crops were introduced back to Europe.</p>
<p>For CCOT I talked about how the Sahara Desert was finally no longer a trade barrier, the same goods like gold, ivory, and salt were traded between Africa and Eurasia, and another change in that Islam began to spread.</p>
<p>I did pretty much the same.
For my DBQ, my paragraphs were: 1) the British trying to brainwash Indians and political developments, 2) social reform, 3) Hindu-Muslim conflict
CC: Disease, urbanization, and population rise all over the world; environment: pollution, spread of crops to Europe, and using up natural resources in Europe vs renewable resources in the Americas
CCOT: Trans-saharan trade and Indian Ocean trade; The rise of Islam</p>