This Is Sparta!!!

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<p>So how many of us did it?</p>

<p>I didn't actually hear about this whole idea until I was actually taking a test- but of course I had to do it.</p>

<p>For those who don't know, this year, people were going to write "This is madness..." somewhere in their FR exam, cross it out, and continue writing (AP exam graders are not allowed to grade anything that is crossed out). Somewhere else, later on in the exam, they would of course write "THIS IS SPARTA!!!" and cross it out, and then continue writing as if nothing had happened.</p>

<p>Anyone else do it?</p>

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<p>This is stupid, lame, and has SEVERAL disadvantages which I will post once I am done with my AP's.</p>

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<p>The only disadvantage is wasting time that could otherwise be spent writing a good essay, and most of the people doing it as far as I can tell either have no clue about what their essay is on OR are very confident in their understanding of the subject and have time to figure out a clever way to incorporate it.</p>

<p>Well, that and it can be distracting to a reader. However, for the majority of people doing it, the readers are honestly going to have seen it before and/or know about it; therefore, it will not be as distracting.</p>

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<p>if i were a reader, i would personally be like "oh what? another one of these essays? 0."</p>

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<p>^ Haha, yeah... "This is Sparta!" was funny the first two times I heard it... Then it got old.</p>

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<p>yeah some fool did it in my sitting and was ridiculed by the entire body.</p>

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<p>its not even funny.</p>

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<p>I wrote "THIS IS MADNESS" at the end of my psych FRQ. It was appropriate because I talked about social conformity and esteem needs in that paragraph, hehehe.</p>

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<p>i sparta'd on us history. it was a complete sparta. as in no essay, just sparta.</p>

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<p>i wrote this is sparta on a blank sheet on the essay packet.
then i crossed it out.</p>

<p>things that are crossed out aren't graded.</p>

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<p>sparta has more relevance to history than what i would have written.</p>

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<p>Hahaha, stephennn.</p>

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<p>on an exceptionally difficult physics problem, i wrote in and crossed out 'this is madness'</p>

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<p>Maybe the free response grader is a recent Iranian immigrant who's father was killed by a Greek truck driver... and is an advocate of xenophobic Persian nationalism.</p>

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<p>Maybe the free response grader is a normal middle aged teacher that hates hooligans ... oh wait</p>

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<p>i did it to a few of my tests :)</p>

<p>honestly unless you did something funny with it (like incorported it into the sentence or something idk), it's kinda old and boring...</p>

<p>someone think up of something else innovative!</p>

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<p>I rickrolled instead of writing Sparta.</p>

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<p>wait what does college board do if you didnt cross it out and just wrote it in the bottom of the frq?
do they even care what you write on other pages if you dont specify what it is on, since you have to indicate what question you are answering?</p>

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<p>I'm excited for econ cause I won't know anything and I plan on just drawing all over the exam when I'm done b.s.ing for the FR</p>

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<p>yeah, I thought this was lame the first time I heard it....so unoriginal</p>