Percentage needed to get 5

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<p>Does anyone know of any website or resource that would tell you approximately what percent of the questions you needed to get right in order to get a 5?</p>

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<p>for which AP exam? it depends</p>

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<p>Well I'm interested in knowing percentages for the following exams:
Biology
Chemistry
Calc AB/BC
Macroecon
Microecon
Gov/US Politics
Lit and Comp
Lang and Comp
Physics B
Comp Science A</p>

<p>I'm not taking ALL of these exams, but any information would be helpful. Thanks!</p>

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<p>US Hist also:)
and Stats</p>

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<p>while you're at it</p>

<p>World History
US History
Enviro Sci
Human Geography
Spanish Language (esp.)</p>

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<p>i know that the collegeboard website has tables listing percentages based on the curve (like, if you're in the top 8% for lang/comp, you'll get a five). but then again i haven't looked too closely at that site.</p>

<p>but my calc teacher has told me that you only need around 70% of the total points to get a 5 on calc AB. i hear it's down to 50% for BC.</p>

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<p>yeah, I looked at the collegeboard stats, but that's just the average percentage of people who get each grade every year</p>

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<p>You need a little over 60% for Chem. I recently took the 1999 exam and you need a raw score of 100/160 to get a 5. Not too bad.</p>

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<p>how do u know Clue??? is the scoring curve posted somewhere online??? do u have it for other years??? thanks</p>

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<p>smder99, like I said, this scoring curve was for the 1999 test. It changes every year (you can probably get other years' scoring curves on AP Central), but the 1999 test gives you a rough estimate for other years. It doesn't deviate too much year to year.</p>