<p>Ok, I just took a practice test that my teacher gave the class. I did pretty bad on MC, and i'll assume my essay scores to be 5 out of 9 per essay (since she never told us how we did, even though I usually got an A or a high B on each of her 50 point essays--> not the point really, but maybe a varying table or formula for you to calculate your composite score of 1-5? some help.</p>
<p>here's what I did.</p>
<p>59 Right
33 Wrong
8 Omitted</p>
<p>what am I on pace for?
i'm hoping for a 4..... 5 is kind of a reach, especially w/ those MC scores.</p>
<p>a formula would be best appreciated.</p>
<p>Also, on another note</p>
<p>does anyone have the answers to the AMSCO book MC questions? our teacher didn't have enough to give to everyone in the class.</p>
<p>Here's how that would look if it were an actual AP test. First, you get one point for each correct answer, so you start with 59 points. Then, you lose 1/4 of a point for each incorrect answer, so 33 * .25 = 8.25..</p>
<p>59 - 8.25 = 50.75 points for your raw score. Questions omitted do not affect your score in a negative or positive way.</p>
<p>Munro's math was right. I forget the exact conversions for the FRQs and the DBQ, but I'm pretty sure a 50/80 for the MC isn't bad at all. I think I read somewhere that above a 60% is pretty good, 70 is better. 50/80 is about a 63%.</p>
<p>i don't have a 50/80...... i got a 40.5 (rounds up to 41 right?)</p>
<p>i'm lookin at a 4..... if I average 6's on my essays. that's gonna be hard........... but whatev I'll have to either do that or not answer the questions I'm not sure about..... cause I think I could've probably skipped like 20 more questions b/c I eliminated one answer...... I don't like my odds on guessing on obscure facts anymore.</p>
<p>gotta improve it somehow, I want a solid 4.</p>
<p>I would guess that it rounds down, but I'm not sure.</p>
<p>What you might want to look at, for a four, is why you're getting so many questions wrong. You answered around sixty, and missed around thirty, which means you're getting two-thirds of the answers right. On our "eighty-scale," that's about 50 right and 25 wrong (We'll call the last 5 answers you omitted)... Getting 50 questions right is, on it's own, close to what you need to get a four. However, getting 25 questions wrong is going to knock you down to a 45, probably entrenching you in three territory.</p>
<p>Now, are you guessing, when you get answers wrong, or do you have some idea? Are you making educated guesses? Pure guesses will not help you, statistically, but guesses made when you eliminate one, or especially two answers will boost your score overall.</p>