<p>I have the Princeton Review book and it doesn't mention anything. My teacher told me that you need a minimum of 68% correct on the multiple choice and high scores on the DBQ/FRQs to get a five, but I was hoping for some specific numbers. Any last minute study tips, too? I'm taking in Friday! First AP, very scared.</p>
<p>Generally you need a 105/180 raw to get a 5. 90 points for the MCQ’s, 90 more for the FRQ’s. Half of your FRQ score is the DBQ, and the other half is split evenly between the two FRQ’s.</p>
<p>According to Wikipedia, only about 1 in 10 students get a 5 on APUSH. The article isn’t entirely consistent (it says both 80 MC and 90; should be 90), and the reported raw score required for a 5 (115/180) is eight years out of date, so take it with the usual grain of salt.</p>
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<p>BTW, everybody is taking it Friday. Good luck!</p>
<p>If there are 80 multiple choice questions, how can one get 90 points for those? What is the average DBQ score (1-9) needed for a five? FRQ scores?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>They will weight your MC score to be the same as your FRQ score. Not sure precisely how, but I think they multiply it by 1.15 or something to that effect…</p>
<p>If you get 55/80 MC questions correct and 7s on all the essays, you’ll get a 5. Now if you get 60 MC questions right, then you have do a little bit worse on essays and so on and so forth…</p>
<p>Also, there’s a curve isn’t there? So these numbers aren’t exactly set in stone or constant?</p>
<p>Yeah, there’s definitely a curve, but I’m not sure if it exists for both the essays and the MC or just the essays…Thanks for the help, guys. I’ll look around and post more info if I find any!</p>
<p>I think a 5 may be the answer. :)</p>
<p>Well, it depends.
I’m pretty sure a curve exists for both the essays and the multiple choice.
Generally if you score 50-60 on the multiple choice, and keep up at least a decent job on the essays, you can get a 5.
Remember, for every question you get right on the multiple choice, you get 1 point. For every one you leave blank, you don’t gain or lose any points. For every one you get wrong, you lose 0.25 points.
In essence, if this were a real test (and you started out with all 80 right), you lose 1 point for every one you leave blank and 1.25 for every one you get wrong. Yes you can get a negative score.
I don’t know how the essays are graded.
Good luck to everyone taking it soon.</p>
<p>Sorry, I can’t edit my post…
In 2006 106 points out of 180 were needed to get a 5 on the AP exam.</p>
<p>I think they set a floor of 0 on the multiple choice score. You can’t get a negative score. If you get more than 4x incorrects as corrects, then they just set the score to 0.</p>
<p>APUSH is so easy. 70/80 on the MC and 5’s on the essays and you’re very safe</p>
<p>Really? You would go for 70/80 on the hard multiple choice and 5’s on the probably easier essays? That’s not realistic at all.
50-60 (raw score, not yet multiplied by 1.125) on the multiple choice and 6-9 on the essays should do it. The highest I’ve ever seen the cutoff set at is 116/180 raw score.</p>
<p>70 is tough, I grant. I could probably still easily get 60 2 years removed. The MC is not difficult at all. There’s a chance that you don’t know one of the essay topics, but 7 DBQ and 6’s on the essays should be easy.</p>
<p>Again 60 MC, 7 DBQ, 6 essays is a safe 5. The test is a larf.</p>
<p>I think you can still get a 5 if you get 60 MC, and 4’s or 5’s on all three essays. That’s according to this calculation sheet my teacher gave my class. But this is just an approximate, so standards might be higher this year.</p>
<p>My teacher had 114 as the cutoff, so that wouldn’t have been good enough. But you don’t have to know **** to get a 4/9, so you really wouldn’t deserve a 5 overall.</p>
<p>Hmm, this is relieving me. 
My average is about a 60-70 on the MC and my practice DBQs this year have been pretty strong when my teacher graded them, so hopefully that 5 is in reach. I’m still freaking out though, since I started reviewing kind of late, so I’m cramming everything I can with notecards, the Princeton Review, and notes before Friday.</p>
<p>waste of effort</p>
<p>I didn’t review at all and I got 140 on the mock AP final exam in class</p>
<p>I took a practice exam, and for like the first 30 questions i’m like “THIS IS EASY! :D”. Then after that I’m like “Oh crap…I need to study” lol</p>