<p>This is my formula from sparknotes' website. They update theirs as soon as the College Board does, so it should be pretty accurate.</p>
<p>[MC (50 Questions) - 1/4 Wrong] * 1.3
+
(Essay 1 + Essay 2 + Essay 3) * 3.0556</p>
<p>112-150= 5</p>
<p>So, 44 out of 50 multiple choice and a 6 on each essay will give you the lowest possible 5. It looks like the reason the curve is so hard is because it's impossible to get a 5 unless you do well on the essay section.</p>
<p>Yeah, I calculated that to the minimum essay score as I don't expect to do so well on that section. Feel free to run your own calcs and post them</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm running calcs now. If my analysis essay is a 3....</p>
<p>Then I'll have to nail at least one essay with an 8 OR get nearly a max multiple choice score with two sevens.</p>
<p>If my analysis is a 4 I think I'll get a 5 on the full exam.</p>
<p>After reading the rubric, I think I can get a 5 on my analysis essay, pushing me into 5 territory.</p>
<p>where do you read the rubric?</p>
<p>I have normally recieved 7-9 on arguments, 6-8 on rhetorical analyses, and 7-8 on syntheses. Add that to usually getting 80% of the MC correct, assuming all were answered. My tests were out of 55, not 50, which helped matters. The last breakdown I saw was an official AP test that had 108 of 150 as the break point, a 72%. This is not bad, considering US Government's is 85%.</p>
<p>k i just took the MC practice in the princeton review and i missed 23 questions out of 54!! 23 whole questions!!! i expect to get 5's on all my ap tests (5 on World History last yr, prob a 5 on calc AB and APUSH this year), but is a 5 a little out of reach for me on the english lang ap test??</p>
<p>Hahaha, and here I was, thinking I could get a 5 on this exam.</p>
<p>**** mannnn.
Im gonna screw up the MC and get likea 3.
hopefully my essays go good...</p>
<p>I'm asian, and it's pretty much given that any asian in my class of 08 at my school is inconsistent with english.</p>
<p>I missed 5 MC on 96 so hopefully I'll do equally well on the actual exam. Two tips from Cliff's that really helped: read actively (underlining) and visually (play out the passage as if it were a movie) and remember that the wrong question is wrong for a particular reason.</p>
<p>The first tip may be trite, but doing both really does help, especially if you intend on flying through the questions with minimal rereading. Again, the second tip may be common sense, but I've found out that keeping that rule in mind helps me quickly narrow down the choices from 5 to 2 in seconds.</p>
<p>According to a sample exam released from CB, the 5 range is 112-150 and the 4 range is 95-112. </p>
<p>Does anyone know if the actual MCs are harder than the sample one in the official Course Description?</p>