<p>Hey guys, I'm a rising Junior and recently took two AP exams during my Sophomore year in May. I took AP Biology and AP Government and Politics. I had never taken an AP class before and didn't know what to expect.</p>
<p>I had never taken Biology before at all but succeded in AP Biology with 99's in every single Marking Period. I took the AP Biology exam and scored a 5, even though I completely bombed one of the FRQs. </p>
<p>I had also taken AP Government. I had an extremely strong background with Politics, being relatively interested in politics and enjoyed following it. The class itself was extremely hard in my school but I succeded with flying colors and was one of the top students in the class. I had a 97% + in all marking periods. On the practice exams, I scored 59/60 - 60/60 on the practice exams I took and had no trouble with the free responses.</p>
<p>However I found out I scored a 4 on the AP government exam. I am extremely disappointed and confused. I knew the exam inside and out. I felt like I scored a perfect on the entire exam. I do not know how I could have scored a measily 4 on such an easy exam. However, the proctor had no idea what he was doing when he adminstered the exam. He forgot to tell us to bubble in our form ID's for our AP exam and I had to remind him because I had taken AP Biology the previous day and had the whole procedure memorized.</p>
<p>Now I want to know what you guys think, should I have my 4 rescored? I really feel like I should have received a 5. Its not that I am a perfectionist, but I feel somewhat cheated by College Board and feel like I have been done some great injustice. My AP Government teacher told me the day before the exam that I was going to get a 5 and if I didn't, that he would kick me. I really think I deserve a 5, but I am not sure if I should rescore. I read on another forum here that a girl got her AP Comp Sci rescored from a 4 to 5 due to an error in her form ID.</p>
<p>You might have been off a line when bubbling the sheets.
Re-scoring rarely changes the outcome score, and it only happens in rare instances where a student receives a 1 when he/she should have gotten a 5.
You can go ahead and re-score but I doubt it will make any improvements.
Sorry :/</p>
<p>Same thing happened to me with AP Human Geo. I self studied the test and thought it was SO EASY. Rescoring barely works, it only does when you receive 1/2 and think you got a 5. Some people even get a lower score when the test is rescored.</p>
<p>A 4 is a good score, if ur college gives the same credit for a 4 that they do for a 5 it is probably not worth it. The frq’s on gov. were very hard, harder than previous yrs so maybe u lost pts there.</p>
<p>No. Rescoring is for people who are willing to waste their money because they can’t come to terms with the fact that they didn’t perform as well as they had hoped.</p>
<p>If they get messed up, usually Free response books get lost or the whole MC section is messed up. Losing half your score will result in a max 3. It is impossible to get a 4 with a whole half lost.</p>
<p>If you expected a 5 and got a 1 or 2, I’d recommend a rescore. But a 4 isn’t that far off from a 5, so I really doubt a rescore would do anything. Just chalk it up to a freak occurrence.</p>
<p>So is there no way that the 4 could be rescored to a 5? I’m going to major in science but this really upsets me because I am extremely interested in politics and government and I coasted through the class the entire year</p>
<p>You did less than great on a test. It is not the end of the world. Repeat. It is not the end of the world. I got a 4 on Psych even though I studied my ass off, while I got a 5 on Lang. and Gov barely lifting a finger. It happens. </p>
<p>Does your college still take credit for the 4, or at least places you’d be looking at?</p>
<p>According to the 2009 revised curve (<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board), an 82/120 is the low cutoff for a 4 while a 93/120 is the low cutoff for a 5. As far as I can tell, rescores work most often if the College Board lost either the MC or FR section in shipping. For the US Gov test, though, either section is worth only 60 points. For you to have gotten a 4, you certainly would have needed both sections to be scored, which makes it very unlikely that a rescore would do anything.</p>
<p>The thing about it is that I’ve heard about people going up from a 4 to 5 on a rescore due to messed up Multiple Choice forms and etc.The thing that really makes me wonder is that our proctor didn’t know what he was doing and I had to remind him of a few things so our tests wouldn’t get ****ed up. I just felt like something there might have happened</p>
<p>As the previous posters have mentioned, it’s improbable that your score will change. But if it is bugging you as much as it seems, rescore it. If you rescore it, you won’t be wondering “what if” and it may give some peace of mind</p>
<p>I’m in the same dilemma myself. I was so sure that I got a 5 for APUSH and ended up getting a 4. I got a perfect score on my Sat ii for USH and consistently got 7+ on the essay portion in class (plus the second highest grade in class), so I feel like something went wrong. I encourage you to get a rescore because I read on cc that collegeboard will reimburse you if it was THEIR mistake (although I’m not 100% sure if they do…). And for some colleges (like Columbia), there IS a difference between a 4 and a 5. As in 3 hours if college credit.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m thinking of rescoring my World History exam. I finished the course with a 95 average, one of the highest averages in my grade. I read the Priceton Review as prep and walked out of the exam room feeling like I aced the test. MC was crazy easy and my essays were rock solid. My teacher is one of the FR graders, and she has us do essays throughout the year. The lowest score she ever gave me was a 7. However, my score shows that I received a 3… More than disappointing. I understand the rescore is only the MC section, but my question is, does anythig happen if you misbubbled and all your answers shifted?? I’m hoping that’s not what happened and the whole thing was just scored wrong or they lost a section of my test, but I can’t be sure.</p>