<p>Just as said in the title was it harder to get a 5 this year in general for AP test</p>
<p>While I can’t speak for previous years, this year’s APs weren’t that hard curve-wise.</p>
<p>How do you know? Just wondering</p>
<p>Based on how I felt I did and how my scores turned out.</p>
<p>I agree. I was pleasantly surprised with my AP scores.</p>
<p>if you don’t mind what were your scores and for what test. And what did you think you were gonna get and was there a difference between that and what you got. I thought I was gonna get a 5 for AP Bio but I ended up with a 4 :/</p>
<p>Euro: 4 (predicted 2-3)
Lang: 5 (predicted 4-5)</p>
<p>I wouldn’t sweat a 4 though; it was probably a high 4. Last year on APUSH I got a 4 but I was really thinking/hoping I got a 5.</p>
<p>Yeah its just that for a 4 I get 3 college credits for the crapy intro to intro to bio class and for a 5 I would have gotten 10 college credits for the good intro to bio course that’s why I’m sad lol this is at the university of Miami incase you wondering thanks for your help</p>
<p>Oh I’m sorry about that well maybe u can test out or something lol</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Look at “Trevor’s” twitter for the score distributions. Some went up, some went down. (I know Env. Science went down a bit)</p>
<p>I think it’s definitely hard to say, but consider that the guessing penalty was dropped. That makes me assume that you’d have to get more questions right (in a purely point-based system) than in previous years, but I’d assume the curve/distribution of scores was roughly the same. Just throwing that out there, although I have no data to back it up. :)</p>
<p>Well, the lack of a guessing penalty means everyone’s scores on the multiple choice improved, which means to distinguish yourself you would have to be good at essays. My guess - people who are better on essays than multiple choice (compared to everyone else, not absolutely) would have better scores, vice versa would have worse scores.</p>
<p>^ This is correct. When I was scoring my practice tests according to the old curves, then the new ones I noticed this as well.</p>
<p>As everyone else has said, the eradication of the -1/4th-of-a-point-for-every-wrong-answer rule promotes guessing if a student runs out of time or doesn’t know the answer. It’s not realistic to assume that this has drastically increased the raw scores of students on the MCQ section, but I’m sure the CollegeBoard has looked at tests this year in comparison to older exams and adjusted the curve to make the difficulty (or lack thereof) in getting a 1,2,3,4, or 5 consistent with that of previous years.</p>
<p>I don’t think the elimination of -1/4 point for wrong answers really affected people’s scores. Everybody is still on the same curve, so it’s not like a bunch of people are doing a lot better because of it.</p>
<p>I was pleasantly surprised by my AP US Gov score, a 4. But I’d predicted a 4 for AP Euro also, and got a 3, however, I know why, my DBQ would’ve been a 9, but I based the whole thing on the “fact” that Catherine the Great ruled Britain, so I got a 4 on my DBQ. Needless to say I was sleep-deprived, and as I was in the car on the way home, I realized what I’d done. I wanted to cry lmao, I really did. But I’d say the curve was kind to me(: though my memory was not.</p>