This year i took 3 AP exams (as a sophomore) and was surprised to see a 3 among my 5s. I had received a 3 on my AP English lang exam and was so shocked because I received consistent 8 and 9s (9 is the highest score you can get) on my essays and decent scores on the MCQ. I was predicted a 5 three times throughout the year so you can see how unbelievably strange i found my score to be. So I thought maybe my teacher was a lenient scorer, but students who were a consistent 5/6 on their essays in the same class received a 3 on their exam as well which makes no sense. And even so, I found the FRQs to be easier on the real exam than any other practice test I had taken before hand. I’ve read about rescoring and I know how rare it is for college board to make a mistake, but I think I should do it to at least put my mind at ease. I’m not sure if I should though because I’ve heard scores can also drop which would make matters worse since I at least get half credits for passing, but there’s a very slim chance this would occur as well. What do you guys think? If my score were to actually increase even to a 4 (and again I know this is very very rare) i would get 6 credits for the course instead of 3. If not, at least I know I’ve exhausted every single possibility and be able to come to terms with the fact that I performed poorly on exam day.
PS: I know only the multiple choice can be rescored. Also, if it helps I’m much stronger in the FRQ section than MCQ but to have gotten a 3 on the exam, that means I would’ve only scored a 15-38% on the MCQ which seems awfully low (I usually score a 70-80%).