<p>I'm definitely getting a 2 on that one. There were so many MC that I just didn't know, or could only narrow down to 2 possibly correct answers. I guess I didn't study enough. How forgiving is scoring in terms of the MC? </p>
<p>I think I did pretty well on all the essays, wrote a lot, had a decent idea of what I was talking about, and made "connections" to other historical events. But I skipped/screwed up at least 25 MC. I'm screwwweeeedddddd. </p>
<p>HELP!</p>
<p>Um, help with what?</p>
<p>You bring the black clothes and masks and I'll bring the suction cups to walk up the walls of the College Board building. We'll jimmy the locks open, find your test, change all the answers to the right ones, and then leave like nothing happened.</p>
<p>I wish we could discuss the questions..I'm dying to know which ones I got wrong.</p>
<p>If what everyone else is saying is true, getting 25 wrong will put you in great range for a 4, even a low 5, and if you did as well as you thought you did on the essays, then you will still get a 5.</p>
<p>25 wrong is a 62%, which, according to the boards here, seem to equate a 5. I think this scale is far too generous... but then again, it's important to remember that AP US is also by far the most popular AP test taken, and not everyone in the nation is CC caliber.</p>
<p>I'd say move on, but I know how hard it is to study for your other AP's when you're positive you failed another one. Everytime I think about BC, I get this sinking feeling in my stomach...</p>
<p>Getting a 62 still equates to a 5??</p>
<p>Umm, tdn you may have just made my day. The MC questions were absolutely dreadful to me, but I think I really nailed the essays. A 5 would be SO nice. But really, if I even get a 3 (which I'm moderately sure of), then I'm happy with myself.</p>
<p>I just calculated: If you get 50/80 on MC. 6.5 on DBQ and 12 for the combined FR, you'll get a 5.</p>
<p>oh snap, i'm so set.</p>
<p>How'd you calculate that?</p>
<p>I didn't answer 7 of the MC. I narrowed down all the others to at least two, so I'm hoping for a 60/73 on the MC overall. I know that's probably a huge stretch considering that I never did better than 39 wrong on all the other practice exams, but I felt really confident, knew most of the answers, and did a fair amount of studying beforehand.</p>
<p>I found this scoring guide for US...</p>
<p>Take your raw MC score (number correct minus 1/4 times number incorrect) and multiply it by 1.125.</p>
<p>Take your DBQ (out of 9) and multiply it by 4.5</p>
<p>Take your first FR (out of 9) and multiply it by 2.75</p>
<p>Take your second FR (out of 9) and multiply by 2.75</p>
<p>Add these all up.</p>
<p>5 114-180
4 92-113
3 74-91
2 42-73
1 0-41</p>
<p>Yeah, the curve on this test is way too generous. </p>
<p>Its laughable that the collegeboard asserts a 5 should equate to an A in a real college class.</p>
<p>I think this was the scoring for 2001, so it should change a little this year.</p>
<p>On a more interesting note: a 75 raw score on MC, 3's on DBQ and both FRQ would get you a 5.</p>
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<p>i agree. you have to know basically everything for a real college final.</p>
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<p>That's true, but a U.S. History course in college is going to be U.S. History to 1865 or 1865 to the present. You're highly unlikely to take a survey U.S. History course like A.P. U.S. which covers the entirety of U.S. History.</p>
<p>Is the curve really that generous?
I think I got 15 wrong/skipped on the multiple choice at most. I skipped 5 and was unsure about another 5ish. I checked some of my answers last night as I remembered some questions, and I got 4/5 of the ones I checked right. So I'm figuring at most I got 15 wrong/skipped and that's being harsh on myself. I wrote a good DBQ, I don't know what I would give it. I included everything asked, had a good thesis in my opinion, and talked about effects. I had a decent amount of outside info in my mind, used most of the documents. The FRs, I'm less sure about. I did 2 and 4, 2 I wrote tons about the effects and not much on the specific causes. I talked a lot about how government changed as a result of the events. 4 I did one domestic, one foreign, and I think I did it pretty decently. I hope the readers can read my writing- it was so pretty the first 2 pages of the DBQ and then just deteriorated as my hand got more and more tired. Either way, can anyone tell me if that would be enough for a 5?</p>
<p>Also, how can I estimate the grade on my own writing. When our teacher graded our essays, she would tell us 'this would equate to an AP 5/4/3/2/1' but those numbers in terms of like overall score on the exam, not on writing. If that makes any sense. 5 being the highest, then. So now trying to approximate my score, I have no idea what would be a good estimate to give myself on my essays and DBQ. I mean, what is an average score? I'm a good writer, and I think I did decently well on my essays, I included outside info, didn't make any major mistakes in my facts, they were analytical, etc, so what would be a reasonable estimate?</p>
<p>The cutoff for a three is likely to be somewhere between 75 and 80. If you're multiplying your MC by 1.125 then even a raw score of 50 is going to put you in a position where 4's on your essays should get you a 3 overall. (I'm sort of ballparking this at the moment, I haven't sat down with a calculator) My point is like many people have said, a 3 just isn't that difficult a number to post. </p>
<p>Definitely a 4/5 is far more desirable but a 3 is respectable and will get you credit at many colleges.</p>
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<p>Remember that it is graded on a curve; I believe something like the top 13% in the nation get a 5.</p>
<p>During the break, a girl who took the Euro history test last year mentioned that she had left eleven blank and still gotten a five. I couldn't believe it! I had had about 11 blank at the end and thought that destroyed my chances, so I went back and guessed on the ones I could narrow at all. I'm expecting a 3 with the essays.</p>