<p>According to Collegeboard, only 5% of the people who take the AP Lang get a 5?!<br>
Can anyone explain why this would be the case?
Is this the lowest of any test?<br>
Does anyone know the grading scale/curve?</p>
<p>This is the lowest of the AP exams, yes.</p>
<p>What, really? My bro got a 5 a couple years back</p>
<p>115/150 or something crazy like that for a 5</p>
<p>Wow that's really high. For Bio it is 90/150 for a 5.</p>
<p>does anyone know more specifically what is needed for a 5? for example on calc ap its your MC score minus 1/4 for each question wrong, then multiply that by 1.2, then add it to your FR score, and a 5 is usually 66-70 pts. what is it for english language?</p>
<p>The same subtract quarter point for every wrong answer on the MC, then you multiply that raw score by like 1.2-something.</p>
<p>Add that to your essay grades, which are multiplied by 3.5-something.</p>
<p>Usually a score around 110 is the cutoff for a 5, so it's pretty high, yes.</p>
<p>ouch so thats like a 80% on MC and 6's on every essay... well guess im not gonna get a 5 on this test =(</p>
<p>me neither~ Isn't the curve so high because so many people take it? compared to some other APs like chemistry and physics.</p>
<p>AP Lang (Lit, too, possibly) is one of the only AP tests that is graded on a true bell curve. Therefore, no matter how many people might write 9 essays and perfect MCs, only a specific percentage can and will get a 5, 4, 3, etc. I don't know why this is different from the general AP grading, but it's not fun at all.</p>
<p>The reason only 5% of people get a 5 on the AP English tests is because lots of really stupid people take them, and the CollegeBoard adjusts their curves to reflect that.</p>
<p>40+% of people get a 5 on the Calculus BC test, and that's because, as you might expect, very few really stupid people take it, so a higher percentage deserve the 5.</p>
<p>I really don't care about this exam too much now. Either</p>
<p>A. I go to Oxford and my AP exams help me get in, but don't place me out of things.
English Lang isnt really relevant to my field (They asked for math and history as most helpful).</p>
<p>B. I go to UNC-Chapel Hill (Top 10 University, In-State, Top 10 Business, Top-10 Philosophy) and pay almost nothing.
This AP exam might place me out of freshmen english here. However, my SAT writing score places me out of freshmen, sophomore, and junior english.</p>
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<p>That's pretty much true. I wouldn't say stupid people, but a lot of those who are taking the AP English Exam are taking it because virtually all schools require four years of English.</p>
<p>Is it really bell-curve graded? That doesn't seem fair.</p>
<p>My book (Kaplan) has it at 114+ for a 5.</p>
<p>MC: (Number correct)-(Number Wrong<em>.25)</em>1.296 = MC raw score</p>
<p>FR: (score1+score2+score3)*2.933 = FR Score</p>
<p>Composite Score = MC+FR</p>
<p>That leaves you with roughly:
48 out of 52 correct on the MC, plus a 6 on all the essays:</p>
<p>MC: (48-1)<em>1.296= 60.912 ~ 61
FR: (6+6+6)</em>2.933 = 52.794~53
======================114, the lowest 5 possible</p>
<p>I hope I did that wrong...this appears to be fairly impossible.</p>
<p>It really is bell-curved, trust me. A lot of stupid people take every AP exam; certain courses might have more dedicated students than others, but I've seen plenty of people in Calc who know absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>I hear UCB (yes, BERKELEY) places you out of English if you get a 3 on lang. If I planned to go there, then I'd take the lang exam. Who knows? Maybe I will apply there and then take lang exam with no class.</p>
<p>49 out of 52 correct = almost IMPOSSIBLE ahhh!!! have you done past ap MC i wasnt even close to a 49 out of 52! </p>
<p>6 on all essays = doable. my review book says only 1% of all essays get a 9 tho, so its not like US history where i was expecting a 9 on most of my essays...</p>
<p>does anyone know a link to the synthesis essay scoring rubric? like does it want us to use all the documents and stuff like that?</p>
<p>I am more confident in my ability to get a 49/52 than a 6 on all 3 essays, though just btw I edited my post it's 48.</p>
<p>And as a general rule: use all of the documents (at minimum use most of them)</p>
<p>well not really - </p>
<p>one could theoretically write high essays (8,8,7) and thus, be able to have a considerably lower MC score.</p>
<p>there are a few documents that are placed to intentionally trip up test-takes e.g. the synthesis questions i've done taken directly from the CB have 2-3 docs that either make virtually no sense or don't really have substantial applicability or both. so it's much easier/more efficient to use all documents necessary for your essay.</p>