<p>Sorry for a possible double post, but does anyone happen to know where one can find the essay rubrics for APUSH?</p>
<p>my bad lol.. I have a tendency to misread things..</p>
<p>^ Yep, 8 Eastern Time... they did NOT post the March ones earlier <em>accidently</em>... I stayed up whole night pressing F5 over and over... >_></p>
<p>@Geek - AP</a> US History Essay Rubric</p>
<p>Are you sure it was 8 eastern time? I remember when I saw my score it was pitch dark outside...</p>
<p>On a happier (sadder?) note, all of the sophomore IBers get their CAS hour packets at our school...</p>
<p>It was pretty funny when the woman suggested not to be involved in like 6-7 clubs - I told her I was in like 9 (only active in like 5-6 though)</p>
<p><em>shakes head sadly</em> Band gives enough CAS hours for everything, gawd so many people are going to have like 1000+ at our school</p>
<p>wow.. I just went over some QAS's from 07 and both of their math curves were -1 = 800.... Where are the lenient math curves for 08? lol...</p>
<p>I have taken these QAS's and they really are not that much more difficult than some other tests with less generous curves..</p>
<p>well... I mean, there aren't going to be a lot of questions that stick out as really difficult in math for most of us, but its whether or not there were tricky answers. A lot of the mistakes are caused by accidentally solving an equation and bubbling in that number instead of getting the final answer.</p>
<p>i.e. A friend of mine on that "Two lines intersect at (t, 11/2) or something... equation1 = blah, equation2 = blah(x)+ b. Find b." gridded in t instead of b (okay, bad example, grid-in) </p>
<p>You get the point</p>
<p>EDIT: @Feed: Didn't see that. Thanks!!</p>
<p>@Joe, which QAS do you have? Also, how can I pursuade you to share em' with me? :D</p>
<p>So does anyone know whether its bad to have really extensive thesis statements (like 3-4 lines worth?) I think its my pedantic use of extravagant language.</p>
<p>^ Hm, it shouldn't be THAT much of a big deal if you support it well.
But if you beat around the bush too much, the readers will get annoyed (or might not even bother reading the whole thing to actually grade you based on your argument). They might just look at your length, and vocab and stuff. Really depends on the grader though...</p>
<p>They usually look at the thesis, the topic sentences of each para, and the conclusion.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks. To pose a random question that came to mind, what are your (plural) prospective colleges?</p>
<p>MIT
Cambridge
Stanford </p>
<p>are my top 3 right now... my list is too long</p>
<p>^ Good luck!</p>
<p>I don't know about mine yet...
I'm still a soph. But Mom's planning a couple of college visits/programs for me this summer. :/</p>
<p>Me too, I've just been kinda enchanted with MIT and Britain (>>Cambridge) for a couple years now. Stanford is just an awesome school</p>
<p>EDIT: Thanks :D I forgot you just moved here recently, so you're probably figuring out a lot right now, huh?</p>
<p>Yes, Stanford is freaken awesome! See you there? :P</p>
<p>well, it dependsss.</p>
<p>MIT is the favourite, but it's a stalemate between Stanford and Cambridge right now (for second). I suppose the adcoms will be sure to choose for me :</p>
<p>Yes, very confused. :(
It took me 2 months to figure out the difference between an honors class and an AP class. Horrible, isn't it?
Had many ahem, interesting experiences at school too. My first day in school ws very eventful. I was in a cultural shock, really, and those high school movies... really don't help. >_>'
I had no idea what I was doing. </p>
<p>And gym is too hard... I cannot run or anything. We didn't focus too much on physical studies back in South Asia... so naturally when they told me to run the mile the very first day, I passed out. -.-
Got sent to the clinic... and the clinic lady is NOT a very friendly lady. I also got lost so many times and everything. At one point, it was me and the janitor in the hallway. And I was suprised crickets didn't start chirping.</p>
<p>And LOCKERS are just a different thing. I couldn't figure out how to open mine... so I had to get my counselor to show me how. She's very nice and went with me all the way to my locker, but when she went back to her office, I couldn't open it again. End result: I bestowed the locker with many kicks throughout the first two weeks as other people in the hallway watched. Not the best thing in my life. However, one day I actually opened the locker on my FIRST try... I was SO happy. Then I looked inside and saw it wasn't my stuff. I had opened somebody else's locker by mistake (how do you even DO that?)... but anyway you probably didn't ask for this whole story... (I'm keeping a journal of all these happenings so I can narrate them in my autobiography later :p).</p>
<p>lol, that's pretty interesting. I don't know a lot of people fresh from the continent over there (most are 2/3 year settled). Lockers? lmao. Yeah... honestly, I don't use one :P except to put my chem book in... OH! btw. I did find my chem book. My friend had borrowed it about 2 months ago after he lost his, and somehow convinced himself that it was his. So I just got it back. Just. <em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>13.38 days left</p>
<p>^ You know facepalm!?!?!
AWESOME!</p>
<p>Wait, where do you go to school?
I don't use my locker either (now... and that's not because I don't know how to. :p)
I don't let ANYONE borrow my books after an incident. I gave my hall pass to this kid... and he left in the friggin Boy's Restroom and told me it fell in the ... toilet. >_<</p>
<p>Darned kids!</p>
<p>LOL @ 13.38</p>
<p>xD. noice @ toilet</p>
<p>I'll give you a hint. Top IB school in the nation for tests administered.</p>
<p>EDIT: Actually, google largest IB school in north america</p>