<p>1,2,3,4,5.</p>
<p>anyone else find this way too generic? I mean, i might not care about it... but the fact that they dont even give subscores or your raw scores on sections kinda disappoints me. I'd like to see how i did on a scale thats more than just 1-5.</p>
<p>i'm sure this has been mentioned plenty of times on this board, but i'm new and am too lazy to look it up :-P</p>
<p>In some ways I agree with you that it would be nice to see a sub score or raw score, but at the same time the simple scores are nice, easy to understand and more definable in that a 5 is the same thing every year, but a 72 can be very different depending on the year.</p>
<p>i totally agree–</p>
<p>we don’t even get to know if we are borderline. or if maybe we aced some part of it and screwed up somewhere else–that way we could actually learn from our errors!!!</p>
<p>Sometimes I wish it was Pass or Fail. That way there would be less stress.</p>
<p>^I agree. I mean, if they’re gonna use such an oversimplified grading scale, they might as well make it pass/fail.</p>
<p>i think it makes sense.</p>
<p>a point grading out of 100 would just be too difficult to deal with in terms of placement and stuff.</p>
<p>pass/fail wouldn’t make any distinction between a person who is good at the subject and a person who is amazing at the subject</p>
<p>its the same as… lets see… worst worse ok better best… just enough to distinguish between test takers</p>
<p>my opinion.</p>
<p>@i took the sat</p>
<p>I agree with your point, but the thing I don’t agree with is the fact that the line is drawn somewhere, and there are going to be students who scored 1 point lower than the 5 cutoff. Are they really “better” rather than “best” when compared to that student that scored one point above the 5 cutoff?</p>
<p>This is an age old debate, and it applies to grades too (How many times have you dealt with an 89.5%? :P), but it has always bugged me.</p>
<p>you can go on with that… if a 108 was a 5… and a student got a 107… lets say (although it would never happen) that they let that student get the 5… then the 106’s will line up with complaints etc etc</p>
<p>i agree that the difference between, say, a 107 and a 108 is virtually nothing… but what can we do? its all numbers… and there’s always gonna be a cutoff</p>
<p>^I know, and it sucks. That’s basically all I’m saying. 
hehe</p>
<p>haha it does suck.</p>
<p>the 107 student will always look back and say “dammit if only”</p>
<p>and the 108 student will always look back and say “thank God for that point”</p>
<p>Yeah… they should grade them by: </p>
<pre><code>* O — Outstanding (5)
<p>They really should just give the raw score along with the 1-5 score. That way, college credit can still work the same way, but when AP grades are used for admission, they can give that kid with a 107 the attention he deserves, and not lump him in with the people who got potentially 20 points lower.</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>Haha, yeah to some extend I’m curious as to what I actually answered correctly, and the caliber of my essays.</p>
<p>But since that’s not available, I can only assume my 5 in WH resulted from 70/70 MC with 3 Pulitzer-worthy essays :P</p>
<p>^lmao hahaha</p>
<p>The AP Calc BC test DOES provide a subscore, such that if you do well on that section, it says you know the equivalent of Calc AB. Calc AB is the equivalent of 1/2 year of college calc, and BC the whole year.</p>
<p>I thought I’d read somewhere that AP Music has a subscore but I’m not sure on that.</p>
<p>For AP Physics C they make you take (and pay for!) two tests, one in mechanics and one in electricity/magnetism. However, each test is only 1.5 hours long so you’re still taking a 3 hours test for both in the end.</p>
<p>Love the harry potter reference.</p>
<p>hah yeah that was a nice reference to the OWLS! I agree!</p>