***OFFICIAL AP US History Thread 2013-2014***

<p>@heldenleben‌ nothing really… The test is still gonna be counted… But it was so annoying</p>

<p>@Jellybae well it truly just depends on how well you effectively answered the question. Really the documents are there just for you to use, they should not be the basis of the essay. If you answered the prompt directly, with multiple pieces of evidence, and explained a HOW and WHY, then probably a 7 or 8.</p>

<p>I used 6 of the documents. My friend used all ten documents. I told him that’s bad because now he can’t use much outside information. Is that true? Is using ten documents bad?</p>

<p>Do you guys think I could have pulled a 6+ on number 2 if I really analyzed how the enlightenment was the “age of reasoning” and how the great awakening “unified” everybody? Of course I included more evidence, but my main these were that those led to the declaration of independence.</p>

<p>@APmaster007 Yes, outside information is more important than the documents. The documents are there to help guide your response. However, that does not necessarily mean that using all the documents is bad. As long as you include enough outside information, you should be fine.</p>

<p>@Newdle I struggled a lot with this one… I am pretty sure it was extremely hard to get above a 6 unless you included a TON of outside information and analyzed the heck out of it. I said basically what you said.</p>

<p>Yeah, I included Locke, Benjamin Franklin (twice), jonathan edwards, george whitefield, gilbert tennent, finally being able to unite together, life, liberty, property, scientific yearning for exploration.</p>

<p>Ahh gee. The Multiple choice was great, the DBQ was solid, the FRQs tho… Started on 2, but realized I knew nothing :frowning: crossed it all out, did 3, but I thought it was weak. Did 4, did better than 3, but still pretty weak IMO.</p>

<p>how bad is it if we state an incorrect fact in our essay?</p>

<p>FRQ 4:</p>

<ol>
<li>sharecropping</li>
<li>voting restrictions</li>
<li>brief glossing over of 15th and 14th amendments</li>
</ol>

<p>Uh… what will that stuff, under a nice thesis, stretched for a page and a half going to get me?</p>

<p>How bad is it if we have 3 incorrect body paragraphs in our essay? My intro was pretty good. It was one sentence…</p>

<p>I included that in the war of 2056, dictator George Washington disapproved of neutrality, saying “Neutrality? Ain’t nobody got time for that”.
I also included the Alaskan bull worm from Spongebob. And I couldn’t find the illustration section so I just drew the worm on the lines provided.</p>

<p>There were different forms right? The Dude next time had all different answers… </p>

<p>@forces Well why was you looking at his exam?</p>

<p>Will I get marked down significantly if I have very well-developed essays with lots of concrete evidence but never really had an obvious thesis in my introduction? I restated my overall main idea at the end of each essay- could that possibly count as a thesis?</p>

<p>I asked what majority of Mc we got for the last couple after the test. Eg abcbd (don’t remember now) and all different </p>

<p>@GammaDecay‌ </p>

<p>@BassGuitar
You guys should have gone for 3 and 5. All you needed to know was some basic general knowledge relating to party politics.</p>

<p>I asked my GF and a couple of my friends;they all did 2/4. I mean, does anyone actually remember anything from the 1600’s/early 1700’s which we learned way back in the year? Besides, my teacher literally worships Andrew Jackson ( he keeps a ANDREW JACKSON BOBBLEHEAD on his desk) so we learned a crapload about the 1830’s, so I was pretty much set for that question. And I could have done my 2nd FRQ on 4, except it would have been, like, half a page long.</p>

<p>is the google doc not working for any of you?</p>

<p>I did the essay about the whigs and the demo crates, but I don’t know how I did. I said how the demo crates didn’t want the goveerment to have a huge role because of the second bank and the high tarrifs. And I said that the whigs were the opposite. Then I said that the whigs and demo crates wanted expansion, but for different reasons. The demcrates wanted more land for farming, while the whigs wanted to expand industrialization to the west.</p>

<p>So what do you guys think i will get on it?</p>

<p>Do you guys know what the answer to that first question about the new technology was? I wasn’t sure whether or not it was the telephone or the TV? They both brought news to households right?</p>