<pre><code> I've been wondering; why are so many people against the "48 hour rule". This is the rule where you can't talk about AP questions (free-hand) for 2 days after the exam. I actually think that it is a good rule. I have never taken an AP exam myself, but I think that this rule is actually pretty important. You can't talk about MC questions at all, and it makes sense as I hear they're reused. To be honest, I think that it should be a little longer, but that's just me. Not trying to sound offensive at all towards those who are against the rule, but I don't think that it is very hard to not talk about the questions for 2 days. The highest level of high school exam I have taken is a regents, and I have never talked about the questions. Even though AP exams are college stuff, I have never had the urge to talk about the exam, and I have wondered; why people want to talk about the exam so badly.
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<p>I understand that people want to talk about the AP exam, but I don't think it is that hard to hold it for two days, no matter how hard the exam was. Now this is just my opinion, I am for the rule. Anyways, I want to hear others opinions on this rule. It would be interesting to see a perspective from someone who is against the rule.</p>
<p>No idea why people are against this. It’s prolly just cc being cc. The majority of the people at my school, including myself, praise the heavens when they finish an AP and never want to discuss anything about the AP ever again after the first 10 minutes after the test. If you are telling me that nobody talked with the other people in your class after finishing an AP right when they finished (just to ask about that one hard FR or something), then that person is pulling a fast one on you.</p>
<p>You make it sound like people are actively protesting against the rule. Even a day after the exam, it’d be rather dull to discuss AP questions. Most people do in fact break the rule (at their own risk though).</p>
<p>On a more humorous note: I remember after the AP stats exam my friend had a smile as if he had conquered the multiple choice, but said nothing since the break started. Some people came to me and him asking what we got for certain questions – we just shrugged them off. A lot of us went to the bathroom – began to open our zippers, then we started laughing hysterically and quickly discussed some random multiple choice for the hell of it. The whole situation is quite humorous at times, but I see why the rule is in place.</p>
<p>I think the reason why people always want to talk about questions is that they’re nervous that they didn’t do well. I know my friends rush out of AP tests at times and go, “OH MY GOD, WHAT DID YOU GET FOR THAT ONE ABOUT THAT THING IT WAS LIKE UH NUMBER 3!” It’s not that they’re particularly fascinated by the question or the answer, they are just hopeless neurotic perfectionists, hoping that they got questions right and didn’t fail their AP tests.</p>
<p>Trust me, after taking 21, I know the feeling when you don’t know an answer to a question, and you guess, but afterwards, you still want to know if you were right for the sole sake of feeling better that you were (or feeling worse that you weren’t). </p>
<p>So, long story short, I think people are against it, because they want to discuss questions while the anxiety of getting it wrong or right is still in the air. It’s like having a problem and wanting to vent about it, but having a two day waiting period, it sucks.</p>
<p>^ what emily said, I just like knowing what other people chose, ESPECIALLY on those ones where two answers look right and you chose one but other people may have chose the other</p>
<p>I know I forget the questions REALLY quickly or at least I forget what I put for them (I often annoyingly remember the two choices I thought were best, but not which one I ended up picking), so it’s tempting to talk about it right then and there. I don’t think the fact that there’s a rule against it has anything to do with why people do it. People talk about answers right after any test in school, too, and there’s usually no rule against that! People just want some reassurance.</p>
<p>Gotta agree with ZombieDante. No one really cares about the rule. At my school, as soon as the MC section is over and we convene for a break, everyone talks about the questions, whether it be in the bathrooms or right in the hallways. Why? Peace of mind. Same goes with the FRQ section.</p>
<p>Not trying to make it sound that way. What I was trying to sound like was that alot of people are against it, but don’t protest, lol.</p>
<p>]QUOTE]If you are telling me that nobody talked with the other people in your class after finishing an AP right when they finished (just to ask about that one hard FR or something), then that person is pulling a fast one on you.
<p>They’re probably the same kind of people who call the day AP scores are available for only one or two exams, or the people who stay up all night waiting for their SAT scores. They’re not really confident in their test-taking abilities and look to verify their performance by reassurance. </p>
<p>Nothing wrong with that, but personally I think it’s unnecessarily stressful and I’m perfectly content waiting until the scores come out.</p>
<p>heck, before the break even starts, when a section is finished the ppl in the back start whispering about questions. during the break nobody cares</p>
<p>@ConnorR15 you are so right! smarty pants who take tons of AP tests always think that they can bypass that rule by going “sooo, not that there was a question about this, but if there was, would you have put A or B?” After taking 21 AP tests I can’t believe I forgot about all the sneaky things AP students try to get by with haha.</p>
<p>I really don’t think people protest the rule unless it’s on CC though. I know a lot of people hate that they can discuss FRQ’s on CC to gain some piece of mind. </p>
<p>I remember scouring CC for AP Art History after the test, and then realizing no one was going to to be telling me the answers to any of the questions that I was pretty sure I failed miserably.</p>
<p>After my Calc exam last year I remember saying to my teacher and some other students “Well, if there had been a question like that, I would have integrated it like so, hypothetically…” and the same sort of thing after my gov’t exam. College Board can continue to not listen to people saying to do away with the rule and those people will just not listen to them trying to enforce the rule in return. It’s sort of odd to think that I’m done with standardized examinations until my GRE.</p>