<p>I didn't see a thread on this, but thought that it was relatively commonplace, though not usually said.</p>
<p>When people finished with their AP tests early, some of my classmates wrote prayers and wrote pseudo-conversations with their soon-to-be grader. </p>
<p>Another friend of mine taking the AP Government test made a quick note that it was Karl Marx's birthday ... and crossed it out, saying that the Karl Marx comment had been censored by the House Un-American Activities Committee lol (we have a very dry sense of humor).</p>
<p>I wrote the following in my free response (slightly edited):
Dear College Board,</p>
<p>I was initially apprehensive about taking this exam. However, having just completed it, I am happy to say that I feel confident about my performance today. I hope to get a 5 on this if not, well at least I tried my best. Thank you for taking your time to grade my work. Even though I (and my parents) are paying you $100 for me to take a test for which I will most likely get a minimal amount of credit for in college, I still appreciate all that you have done to make us students succeed.</p>
<p>lots of people did stuff like that for the Calc AB exam at my school, since the teacher makes you take a graded AP exam at the end of the year if you didnt take the actual AP...so lots of people just signed up for the exam</p>
<p>The interesting thing about the graders is that they are trained on one particular free response question. So, for instance, in AP Calculus, the six free response questions go to six different graders. In principle, the six parts aren't supposed to be compiled except at the very end to bring the final overall score together.</p>
<p>However, at a workshop I attended, the presenter tells the story of the only instance he knows of when all six parts were brought together prior to the scoring.</p>
<p>Turns out that one of the later questions for this student was graded first, and it appeared to be a very in-depth and detailed story that had absolutely nothing to do with Calculus. Because the grader hadn't seen the earlier part, he showed it to a couple of colleagues, and eventually, all the parts were brought together.</p>
<p>When they brought all the parts together, they realized that the story was coming to a tremendous climax right at question #6. Wondering how the story would end, they quickly read to the bottom of the question, where it finally said...</p>
<p>(TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK...
I DON'T KNOW CHEMISTRY EITHER.)</p>
<p>Whether that story is true or just an urban legend, I don't know, but I got a kick out of it.</p>
<p>Awesome!! That's hilarious. But why would anyone in their right mind pay $80-100 to take a test just to write a story for the graders? Makes for an entertaining read I guess</p>
<p>I know at my school, you have to commit to taking the exam some time in advance, and if you want to cancel too close to the exam date, the exams are ordered and you can't get a refund.</p>
<p>So it could be a student who thought they were going to be able to "catch up", realized they couldn't, and had a little fun.</p>
<p>My friend wrote (in french) "Hello, my name is..., i go to... high school, I'm in the 11th grade. I cannot read this question because my french teacher did not teach us anything."</p>
<p>We both have the same teacher ( the class has french 3, what i'm taking, french 4 and AP french combined). We didn't learn anything in that class, so it really sucked for her. Anyway, I just thought it was funny.</p>
<p>haah, do you guys think you could get in trouble for writing something funny,etc on the FRQ sheet? do you know of anybody who did?...haha if not then im going to have a fun time next monday..</p>
<p>TheMathProf: That's so great. I wonder if that student got a five!</p>
<p>I put a little pity story on my Chem AP last year along with a few chem jokes (ie. why did the bear melt in the water? b/c he was a polar bear) because I knew no chemistry at all and ended up with a two rather than a one. This year I put a "be nice please" thing on my Stat AP but I doubt it'll help...</p>
<p>Instead of explaining and interpreting my answers on one AP stat question normally, I drew a little stick figure professor with a pointer and had him explain my answers with speech bubbles. I.e. instead of listing name of test, I drew the little stick figure professor saying "The grader can clearly see the student has chosen a matched-pairs T-test."</p>
<p>Most of the humor was in the little professor, not what he actually said. However, at one point, he did say "The T-distribution is shorter and fatter than the normal. Just like this student's statistics teacher!"</p>
<p>Well, on my Cal AB exam I did alot of work and ended up gettting a ridiculous answer, and way at the bottom I wrote, "Sorry for making you read this even though I know it's wrong. Can I have a point for trying?" And I drew sad faces in any of the places that I didn't know what to do.</p>
<p>And, I don't even know if it'll go noticed, but at the end of the booklet for USH, I wrote "The End"</p>
<p>haha on my ap gov test, I started writing out the "superbowl is gay" song in my exam booklet. I subbed in verses such as "paying 83 bucks for a test is gay", "AP tests are gay", "collegeboard is gay", etc.</p>
<p>on my spanish test, I wrote no me gusta over and over again on a free response page.</p>
<p>on my lit test I wrote a little bit comparing the history teacher from the first part of the FRQ to a history teacher at my school, bill florian. thought it was funny cause they both can't teach whatsoever (actually they both even teach incorrect facts); I also did a letter by letter comparison of bill florian to billy collins (the poet of that poem), elminating letters that werein both names. billy collins - bill florian = y CS - F some how. I forgot about the l and the a I know. that turned into (at first) and computer science - f***. realizing that didn't make any sense what soever, that turned into......</p>
<p>and counter-strike - france. trying to find a use for the (-), I turned into an expletive. the final phrase was "and counter-strike, f**k france."</p>
<p>so yea. I plan to do more of the same on biolgoy and physics C.</p>
<p>as for the mr1.jpg thing on the previous page, I wish I would've thought of that haha. only thing was that I actually answered every question, and there was no need to do all that work that the person shows :)</p>
<p>I don't know if this counts, but I wrote my German free response essay on what the world would have been like if the aliens had come in 1900, rather than in 2001. I said it would be a lot more fun now because the mind control devices would be more advanced.</p>
