The official 2009 APUSH after exam discussion thread

<p>dillbilly123: I’m sure it is fine as long as at the top of your page you circled the number corresponding to the essay you were writing.</p>

<p>all right. and yeah i cirlced the corresponding number at the top.</p>

<p>thanks heretosucceed92!</p>

<p>Equilibrium, im not especially worried about the length because my handwriting is smaller than usual. </p>

<p>And, our teacher showed us the essays of some students who got 5s. One of the students FRQ was only 1 page long(meaning it was only on ONE side of a page!)</p>

<p>His essay succinctly delivered an arguement, so i think thats why he scored so high!</p>

<p>Do graders grade on writing style or grammar? Or is it just strictly on the information you provide in your essay?</p>

<p>^^^well its not an englush essay so its basically the info…but having a little stylenever hurst</p>

<p>Yeah, I’m getting a one.</p>

<p>Knew that during the test, too. Therefore WHY SO SERIOUS? was pretty much the prevalent thing throughout the writing section.</p>

<p>^ I thought that, too. Then I got into the test and realized I knew a lot more than I thought.</p>

<p>hahaha of all things for me to mix up… the constitution and the declaration of independence? i cant believe it haha</p>

<p>I loved that test. Granted, I’m a huge US History nerd, but I enjoyed writing those essays, thought the MC was pretty easy though there were more questions about more recent events than I expected.</p>

<p>How much will they take off for only using five documents…assuming I did present a good argument using them?</p>

<p>A lot of vocab words it tested on were stuff that never came up in my text book or class lectures, so a lot of my classmates found MC to be harder. I ended up guessing on like 20 or so, and left 1 blank, so I’m hoping for a total of like 64 right and maybe 15 wrong. DBQ and first FRQ was probably a 7-8, while my second FRQ couldn’t have been more than 3-4. Everybody knows the events of 2 like the back of their hand, but 5 I had absolutely NO outside info on other than like 1 thing for each body paragraph that I kind of repeated over and over, lol. I’m hoping for a 5 and expecting at least a 4, but then again I felt the same about Euro and ended up with a 3 :(</p>

<p>My DBQ was 4 pgs</p>

<p>that being said it was the most disorganized thing you could ever see. my thesis was good, i had ALL the info possible in there, cited all but 1 document, but it was ridiculously disorganized. how bad will that screw me over?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

<p>If your dbq is disorganized it does hurt your score a lot from what i know. If they have to pause or stop at any point because they’re confused or the info is wrong, they consider it a major error and won’t give you higher than a 5.</p>

<p>I thought the overall exam was okay.</p>

<p>The MC were okay. I expected the MC section to include more aspects of history. I mean, isn’t the point of the AP test to prove how knowledgable we are about US history?</p>

<p>The DBQ was VERY interesting. I understood the topic; however, the timeframe they gave us to write about was weird. I’m pretty sure the people who thought they did really well on that section included information after the given timeframe. </p>

<p>I chose FRQs 2 & 5. 2 was easy, and 5 was okay; I didn’t have a lot of information for 5.</p>

<p>This was my first ever AP exam. fun. I chose 2 & 5 also. Seems like no one chose 3. I killed Essay 2. essay 5 was a struggle to incorporate specifics. I did use a nice literary example, and 1-2 specific names, other than that i kinda struggled. </p>

<p>DBQ was a difficult 2 questions, i had a hard time combining them into one thesis. I was unable to pull a lot of outside specifics because of the time period, but i got a lot of outside concepts. Are concepts looked down on compared to specifics? ie. Mercantilism rather than Sam Adams</p>

<p>so, are there any Form B’ers around here?</p>

<p>I loved the question about a certain treaty in the Americas that had to do with a certain president people tell you won’t be on the test because he is too recent. :D</p>

<p>anyone know what I’m hinting at?</p>

<p>Haha. I know what you’re hinting at Softiful! I loved that question too, though it caught me off guard. :)</p>

<p>i chose 2 and 3… im surprised no one chose 3… </p>

<p>what i did though, was i incorproated the major ideal during the gilded age and how labor unions affected them and i just included two of the unions that we had to choose.</p>

<p>my friend was like “what! why didnt u choose 5?” n i was like “cuz i dont know shyt about the mexican americans during WWII as well as the jewish and the africans, only the japanese.”</p>

<p>i just HOPE to God that i get atleast 50 right on the M.C. imo, i thought it was somewhat easy but i ran out of time on problem 65 and i think i skipped a few…</p>

<p>on the DBQ however, i incorporated all 10 docs and i KNOW for a fact that my FR’s were ATLEAST an 8 if not a 9…</p>

<p>is it rly true that if you score under 50, ur essays are obsolete??</p>

<p>i been stressing heavily about this…</p>

<p>I was in AcDec this year, and the topic was Latin America. So that’s why I knew it, because that question was basically on every social science test. XD</p>