<p>-10 is already so freaking good…</p>
<p>Hey I used all documents save like 2-3. Is that bad?</p>
<p>The essays were easy! I haven’t written an essay all year (no joke) and I could easily spew out some solid 5 paragraph essays with tons of outside info!</p>
<p>Multiple choice, I got like at most 12 wrong. </p>
<p>Essays, I think I averaged 7/9 (hopefully better).</p>
<p>I hope thats a 5!</p>
<p>Oh crap were you guys taught to use all the docs??..my teachers said one more than half…</p>
<p>Very easy. Hope I don’t end up with a 4 now</p>
<p>I used every document…</p>
<p>I wrote six pages for the DBQ, four for essay #3, and a little over three for essay #5. I had a bit of trouble with time, so I really rushed the last essay. I’m betting I got an 8 or 9 on the DBQ, a 7 or 8 on #3, and a 5 or so on #5. Regardless, I’m happy.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who didn’t think the Frqs were that easy?</p>
<p>@tonton5</p>
<p>I thought the FRQs were difficult! I would have had a much easier time with them had they been opinion questions so that I could defend an argument. I felt like they didn’t really give you much to work with. It was just like “Tell us everything you know about this topic!” so I spewed out whatever information I could think of.</p>
<p>I wanted to jump up and down and cheer when I saw the DBQ (unfortunately, that’s frowned upon in the AP testing room). My teacher had been predicting Lincoln or War of 1812, and he usually guesses right so I was incredibly relieved. I was shocked by how easy it was.</p>
<p>My teacher is in charge for APUSH workshops across the southeast to instruct teachers on how to teach apush, and is also one of the most longstanding essay graders for the DBQ + FRQs. Without outside facts and logical inferences about documents to complement your essay, it doesn’t matter how many you use. The most you can get is a 6 without outside facts according to him. Last year he mentioned an essay that was so good that it was passed around the essay graders’ table and everyone agreed it was a 9. It cited only two documents. </p>
<p>tl;dr outside facts > quantity of documents cited</p>
<p>I felt like I did really good but after coming out of the test room and talking with my friends I realized I made a mistake in the second question about British mercantilist policies… I talked about the navigational acts in description but I called them the Townsend acts which were in 1767. I also mentioned Townsend and accidentally called the molasses act, the sugar act instead but still talked about smuggling so hopefully they can tell I was aiming for the 1600s molasses act… It won’t hurt me too much will it? Confusing the names of the acts and taxes and going a little off time?</p>
<p>MC was moderately easy, a couple difficult questions scattered sporadically, but nothing too vague. DBQ and FRQs were straightforward and simple to answer.</p>
<p>MC was harder than expected but FR was super easy. Expect 4/5</p>
<p>Wow. Subject in general was just underwhelming. Thought I’d regret my one hour of studying but expecting a 5 now. Can’t say the same strategy worked for chemistry, however.</p>
<p>In my opinion, the DBQ was so broad that it made me struggle a bit. The subject matter was simple, but there was too much to write. The FRQs were wonderful though. MC was decent enough. I’ll expect a four, hope for a 5.</p>
<p>My main regret is not looking over the presidents after Richard Nixon. I had to make an educated guess on pretty much all of the questions regarding the presidents after him. Also, were the free responses supposed to be actual essays or just essay questions. I thought they were supposed to be essays so I wrote two pages for each, but many of my classmates said they only wrote a paragraph.</p>
<p>Even if they were just essay questions (they’re not), what could possibly lead you to believe that writing an entire two page essay is a bad thing when compared to writing a paragraph?</p>
<p>Writing just a paragraph for any FRQ or DBQ won’t get you more than a 1. I can almost guarantee that.</p>
<p>@efeens44</p>
<p>As someone who has graded ap exams before, I can guarantee 100% that a single paragraph, “essay” for a FRQ/DBQ question will get a 1. It simply shows that the student cannot write an academic essay. If they can’t do that then they cannot articulate a college level historical analysis.</p>
<p>"My teacher is in charge for APUSH workshops across the southeast to instruct teachers on how to teach apush, and is also one of the most longstanding essay graders for the DBQ + FRQs. Without outside facts and logical inferences about documents to complement your essay, it doesn’t matter how many you use. The most you can get is a 6 without outside facts according to him. Last year he mentioned an essay that was so good that it was passed around the essay graders’ table and everyone agreed it was a 9. It cited only two documents. </p>
<p>tl;dr outside facts > quantity of documents cited"</p>
<p>100% true. When graders are given the grading rubric there is a list of 40+ key terms/words/historical events to look for that would be relevant to the essay. The most of those words you use, statistically, the higher your grade. If you use those words, accurately, it simply shows you know what you are talking about.</p>
<p>I felt pretty good on the multiple choice. DBQ was great! However, do they take off points in essays for misinformation? For example, on the second essay I wrote, I said the war of 1812 ended impressement when it did not. I also said in my final essay that the kent st and jackson st protests resulted from anger towards Johnson’s gulf of tonkin resolutions, not Nixon’s vietnamization. How killer will these things be?</p>
<p>Everyone at my school thought it was easy. Now I feel that the curve is going to be horrible.</p>