<p>I skipped like 6 cuz I really wasn't sure and didn't wanna guess. I think I did bad on the essays.</p>
<p>How accurate is that site yanks?</p>
<p>How are you going about predicting your essay scores? I felt like I knew, for the most part, what I was talking about, but I really have no idea how the essays will be scored.</p>
<p>so lets say that my dbq was pretty good in that it had a good amount of outside information and also a pretty legitimate argument for the thesis. my second essay was ok, didnt have that much of an argument but i pretty much got in what anyone could. my third essay was really good in all the information that i knew but then again didnt have a specific argument.</p>
<p>how do you think they grade dbq and free response based on like, a strong argument as opposed to lots of information?</p>
<p>They would rather have strong information for this one because all it asked was to state how the _________ affect the ______.</p>
<p>Ok, wow, that site pretty much guarantees me a 5. First time I predicted it with what I thought I would actually get, and I got like a 135. Then I predicted saying I got only 60 right on the mc, which is at least 5 less than I think, 10 wrong which is more than I think, a 6 on the dbq, a 4 and a 5 on the essays, and I still get a 5. What the heck? That can't be right. Even if I only got a 5 on each essay, still less than I think, same mc as before, I'd still get a 5. That simply cannot be true! By that reaspning it's like super easy to get a 5.</p>
<p>That is the exact formula to get the grade.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks! Well, I feel more relaxed about history now, as I honestly think I scored higher on each section than those minimum scores I tried it out with. So unless I completely screwed up the multiple choice- not likely as I'm great with facts and know social changes very well, I even knew the weird art movements they asked about- or I completely missed the point on one of my essays, I think I've just gotten a 5. Yay. I really don't want to jinx it, but it's very likely. :)</p>
<p>yeah thats how the scale works
i studied like crazy and it was quite unecessary, i think i got like 35-40 points above a 5</p>
<p>Doesn't the scoring change every year? Like, it doesnt stay 114-180 every year, does it?</p>
<p>yeah, the physics exams are by far the biggest jokes. When a 54% is equal to an "A"...you know something's wrong lol.</p>
<p>That is the scoring formula for 2001. It won't change drastically. If you want a 5, hope for 114+</p>
<p>I think you guys are forgetting how difficult the grading is on the essays; I'm not saying that you won't get 5s but a 7, 8 or 9 on a DBQ or even a FRQ is very difficult to get. The average is somewhere around 2 or 3. So saying "I for sure got 9s on the essays" is...probably not accurate.</p>
<p>all this worrying is stupid. you dont know if your reader is going to be drunk or if they are going to meticulous dissect every single sentence of your essay, and, let's face it guys: the essays are the tipping point for basically every single AP test. just wait until july 1st becuase all this is going to do is stress us all out for the one month when we are free of AP worry.
it's not in your hands anymore, just let it go.</p>
<p>If TDN's scale is accurate, I should get like a 10. That seems way too lenient to be true. I'm not super confident in my essays, but I know all of them were AT LEAST sixes, and I took the released 2004 MC exam and got 71/80 (69.5 raw), and if the tests are reliable in any sense it's a likely scenario that I got at least that many this time. I've looked up most of the ones I was unsure about and so far I've only come across one that I know I got wrong (DAMN YOU MENTAL COINFLIP!).</p>
<p>Southeasttitin: "The average is somewhere around 2 or 3. "</p>
<p>Uh, do you have any facts to back that up? That seems way too low.</p>
<p>Does anybody know where I can find full-length, officially scored DBQ or FRQ responses to past exams to get an idea of the grade that I probably got?</p>
<p>its definitely two or three. if you make an ap central account, you can find the averages and also the officially scored essays that you are looking for. the averages are under ap scoring q and a or something like that. tdns scale is correct.</p>
<p>I still don't see where you are getting the 2-3 average from. Anyways, looking over some of those sample essays, I almost definitely got somewhere between a 6 and a 9, so I'm content.</p>
<p>i will find you the link, hold on</p>
<p>heres the link for last years questions. if you dont have an ap central account, the mean scores were 3.16, 3.23, 2.75, 2.62, and 3.05.</p>
<p>Wow. It's kind of hard to believe that's the case, that so many people write as bad as the people they offer as examples of 3s.</p>