Possible to lose points for this on AP Human Geography?

Test Preparation AP History & Social Sciences
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Hi guys, is it possible to lose points on AP Human Geography for having terrible sentence structure/grammar? I got a 3 on the exam and I’m really pissed off, but I think the reason is because my sentence structure was terrible since I did rush the writing on the FRQs and just answer the questions with many grammatical errors and such. A lot of my friends got higher scores (4’s and 5’s) and they had very similar content as mine. The test did say to write in complete sentences but not in an essay format.One of the questions were also in wrong order, for example: I answered question 1 of the last FRQ then I answered question 3 of the last FRQ and then 2 of the last FRQ. I also marked out A LOT of my work and re wrote since I was correcting some mistakes about half of the page was black mark outs, so it was possibly hard for the graders to read.Can I get points off for marking out a lot, terrible sentence structure/grammar, and improperly answering the questions for an FRQ in order?

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No, as long as the reader understood what you meant.

No. Assuming you marked your question numbers so the reader can figure out what question you were answering.

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Are you sure? When I looked at the instructions for the exam it said to write it in complete sentences. My teacher also said if you don’t then you lose points…

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Knowing how the AP History exams works, nobody gives a damn about your writing structure or your eloquence. As long as you have a position and you can back it up with evidence, it’s fine. There’s no point anywhere on the rubric that awards “complete sentences” or “correct grammar.”

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There seems to be a lot more work than I expected on my AP Human Geography class. It’s been less than a month and the volume of homework is extremely high. Even the summer homework in prep for this class was high volume. Did you all experience that too when you took it?

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