<p>I've looked at the grading criterion for the Statistics FRQ, and let me just say that it is absolutely RUTHLESS - you can only get partial credit if you just leave out a symbol or something. I've been getting an average of 3/4 on every question in the FRQ, but I may be grading myself a bit too leniently. I've been practicing and can get a pretty much perfect score on the MC, but I'm still worried that the FRQ will be brutal for me. I really want a 5, is this possible? My friend claims he was sick last year and studied for the entire day before the exam (and nothing more) and got a 4. I've been studying a whole lot more and really think I know this stuff well, it's just I may not give the graders what they are looking for on the FRQ.</p>
<p>Just be very careful and very thorough. Go through the hypothesis tests and confidence intervals with extra care, being sure to get every single condition. Those little things that actually aren’t that hard to put down are what they will take away points for. I need no less than a 4 but am shooting for a 5 (even though I would be perfectly happy with a 4), so I have a little bit of room for error. But a 5 will take a lot of careful work.</p>
<p>Looking at the collegeboard old FRQ scoring guidlines, the grading is a lot more harsh than I expected</p>
<p>I think it will be obscenely harsh.</p>
<p>I’m going to assume I will get most of the points on questions that require explanations, basically everything that is not Hypothesis testing and confidence Intervals, and maybe 1/3 of the Hypothesis testing and Confidence Interval stuff.</p>
<p>I’m going to practice all of the assumptions inferences and test names, but that is stuff that I’ve mostly forgotten.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>I’m thinking I can at least average 3/4 on FRQs, but #6 has me worried. I’m hoping I can at least pick up 2/4 on that one.</p>
<p>^I hate the 6th FRQ. It’s always like seven graphs then like 3 significance tests. I mean seriously haha?</p>
<p>I think I am going to get all of the FRQs except the Chi-Square ones, and certain t-tests where it seems like it should be a z-test.</p>
<p>The practice FRQs that I’ve taken for the 6th, are always doing 2-3 separate significance tests, graphs, and you get no points if you forget one little thing (points for each sub category). I’m hoping for 35/50 total points. If I can get that I can do well on the MC.</p>