The official 2009 APUSH after exam discussion thread

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<p>I’m pretty sure we count a page as a side of a page, since we had to circle numbers on each side, and they also tell you to start on a new side for each FRQ after the DBQ.</p>

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OMG, thank you! Hopefully that will help control my ocd until July.</p>

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<p>In that case I’m one of the freaks with the 6 page DBQ (What? How did I do that?) and the 3 page FRQ’s.</p>

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<p>Is it really that bad if on average I wrote anywhere between 1.5-3 pages?</p>

<p>3 pgs for the DBQ.</p>

<p>1.75 for frq #1 and 1.5 for frq #2. I don’t think I answered the second part of FRQ #2 well enough I focused more on the first part f the question.</p>

<p>On the MC there was one question that went…" rich man’s…poor…" something like that. I knew all of the events in the answers but I was confused by what the q was asking…</p>

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<p>EVERYONE chose 2/5 I think</p>

<p>I felt I knew the topics really well, I got a good 4-5 pages for each essay. Overall I think the written part was much easier than Euro last year. MC was iffy at some places but not bad</p>

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<p>Can someone else to me why you would get a 47 if you get 50 right and 30 questions wrong on the APUSH calculator?</p>

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<p>It’s no problem at all :)</p>

<p>Your teacher gets them before you, so feel free to pester them if you can, haha.</p>

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<p>Welcome to the club :D</p>

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<p>The DBQ is easily worth more than twice as much as a FRQ, lol.</p>

<p>D: You might want to focus on that more if you ever take it again in the future? The length of it, on balance, ought to easily overtake that of your FRQs!</p>

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<p>mine weren’t that long either. i think most of the people w/ long ones added tons of transitions and extra stuff that you don’t really need. anyway, if you were reading 4,000 essays, would you rather read a concise 3 page one or a 6 page one?</p>

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<p>Damn. i have to take form B. 0______o</p>

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<p>As long as you address the prompt and cite relevant examples and argue your point successfully, length is NOT a factor in your score. Content is much more important than anything. Most people say length is important because that shows more relevant information was present. If this isn’t the case, and you go off topic or something, you may not get as high a score as someone who went straight to the point.</p>

<p>From what I’ve seen, AP graders (besides the AP Lang/Lit) do not care about <em>fluff</em>. They want the cold, hard facts.</p>

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<p>Ughhhhhhhhh. Because I needed that extra helping of worry. </p>

<p>I kicked outside information’s @ss and used all but one of the documents. Lot’s of stylish writing, but no worthless transitions for me. Maybe that’s why it was 6 pages? I wasn’t planning on it. It just came out.</p>

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<p>This is a history, not a literary, assignment. It’s not like college applications where we ought to keep it brief.</p>

<p>If we’re talking about the historical topic at hand it can’t hurt, unless you’re wrong about it.</p>

<p>So don’t be wrong. And other than that, write away!</p>

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<p>Yeah I just covered all bases. I used all the documents and added stuff I knew personally along with it. So it just ended up going the way it did!</p>

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<p>Not too bad actually. Multiple choice was harder than the old tests I took, but not crazy hard. I think I still may have a 60/80 on that, depending on how my educated guesses went. For the DBQ, I wrote some of the best stuff I’ve written this year (and I wrote A LOT this year). I did 3 & 5 for the FRQs, so I seem to be in the minority, but when I saw #3, I jumped out of my seat because that topic (don’t want to break the rules :P). Wrote 3 pages for the DBQ, 3 for Prompt 3 FRQ, and 2 for Prompt 5 FRQ. I think I’m right on the border of 4 and 5 though, so I’ll just see what happens in July. I’m just so happy it’s over though!</p>

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<p>I think the highest I’ll get is a 3 maybe.</p>

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<p>I believe the ‘‘gag rule’’ in the Senate was implemented after 1830…</p>

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<p>I finished the MC with 10 mins remaining which gave me enough time to double check my answers…how about for you guys? Plus I didn’t have enough time for my FRQs. I wasted it on my DBQs.</p>

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<p>uh…my dbq was longer. anyways, I said as much as I needed to. i just had a lot of information I wanted to include</p>

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<p>That’s why I said unofficially.</p>

<p>Gag rule is prior to the Compromise of 1850 so it’s still between the 1830 and 1850, if I am wrong.</p>

<p>But I specifically said unofficially because we COULDN’T decide what to do so we had an unspoken gag rule at that time. When people attempted to DO something about slavery, they just ended up agreeing to not do anything, with a formal gag rule.</p>

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<p>Let’s get a chat going on AIM.</p>

<p>AIM> Chat > buddy chat> type your on SN in invitation and for chat type “APUSH”</p>

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<p>OMG!On my DBQ I only used up 6/9 documents. I don’t feel like I used up enough outside information.</p>

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<p>I am worried about the score I got on part 2. I only wrote 3 pages for the DBQ. Close to 2 pages for the first FR(2) and a little over one page for the second (5)</p>