Official AP US History Thread 2012

General question - if you talk about events that happened outside the time period the DBQ/FRQ requires, will the graders deduct points? Or will they just ignore the extra stuff?</p>

(I included plenty of information in my FRQ within the specified time period (enough to support my thesis), but a couple of my points were outside the time period cause apparently I suck at remembering dates)</p>

They just ignore it. Our teacher told us that if you think it fits, write it. She’s a college board grader, so she knows what she is talking about.</p>

For DBQ, I wrote three and half with more than five outside infor, using 9 docs
For FRQ, I wrote down about two and half for each ( 2 and 5) </p>

For MCQ, i think i got like 40 :frowning: </p>

Is thtat possible to get 5 do you guys think ? </p>

MCQ ■■■ :((((((</p>

I’m pretty sure I Herman Cain’d those essays. They were REALLY easy!</p>

are we allowed to talk about mc yet?</p>

You technically can’t talk about MC at all because this exam will not be released.</p>

What was DBQ/FRQs? I would like to know as I took the test last year.</p>

Ask me in two days.</p>

^ We can’t say till 48 hours after the test. College Confidential will get College Board involved and then are scores will be cut x-x. I just don’t wanna take the risk.</p>

PM me…grow up</p>

Also I wouldn’t be expecting too high of a grade if you can’t even differentiate “are” from “our”.</p>

lol i know right. people have been discussing for years on this forum. as long as no one else gets the answers, it wont matter. it will actually help you.</p>

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Well in that case, no :D!</p>

I thought MC and essays were both really easy. Although, my essays were 3 pages each. Did you guys seriously write 5 pages for 1 essay?</p>

I wrote 5 pages for the DBQ and 4 for both of the FRQ’s. I have big handwriting, though.</p>

I was writing my frq and as soon as i finished i realized that i had started it on the right side of the booklet and flipped it over on the left side. I crossed the left side out with a big x and wrote sorry about that (lol) next to it. I then recopied the left page onto the back of the first page i wrote where it should have been. Is this okay? Will it affect my scores?</p>

^ If you crossed out everything, it shouldn’t</p>

I did 4 pages DBQ, 2 pages each FRQ</p>

I feel like such a slacker, but I have small handwriting and I finished with 1 minute left</p>

To be honest, it was one of the easiest tests I’ve ever taken :slight_smile: . DBQ, and FRQ’s were easy topics. 4p DBQ, 3p ea FRQ. Finished with 30 mins left. </p>

Hope everybody else did as well.</p>

My thoughts–</p>

*Mc : … ? I dont really know what to say about it. I mean, it wasn’t hard… But I really hated the question choices… I personally didn’t think it was accurate at all of all of American History… But oh well. → Some were really easy though.</p>

*Dbq : Blew that out of the freaking water.</p>

*Both FRQS : Annihilated both</p>

Overall–> Essays saved my bootay!</p>

I have no idea how well I did on MC…coud have done ok or atrociously bad. On my dbd I’m guessing 7-9, 7-8 on 2nd FRQ and 2-4max on the last FRQ haha I bs’ed that one so hard but I think a 5 is well within reach</p>