<p>Edthegurl:</p>
<p>Oh man, I so have to do that. I'll have to get inspired somehow.</p>
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dy/dx = cos(sin x) Whysoserious = sin x
dWhysoserious = cos x dx
dy = cos(Whysoserious) x dWhysoserious
y = -sin(sin x) cos x
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<p>Haha, that made my day.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm thinking that this phrase is very workable for Environmental Science. So global warming is a problem, why so serious? It decreases biodiversity and causes economical issues...</p>
<p>Unless you don't care about your score, don't bother doing it. The readers are trained and experienced college professors and high school teachers, not sure how much fun they would get out of reading possibly thousands of essays with nonsense in it.</p>
<p>Last year, I wrote a paragraph on my Calc BC exam (in the calculator FRQ) about how there can't possibly be 122.123 (I don't remember the exact number) people standing in line for rock-concert tickets (which was the question), unless we assume that someone doesn't become a full woman/man until 18, then that 0.123 person can be a 26-month-old baby. Then the parents should actually take the poor child home. yada. yada. yada.
I even drew a rocker family... I had a lot of fun and free time on that test. XD
I got a 5.</p>
<p>I lol'd Pevee.</p>
<p>For those who are interested, here's a link to the photo of the AP essay with the 'Why so serious?'</p>
<p>Actually, that one has 'THIS IS SPARTA!'
Btw, can someone show me a 'normal' photo of AP papers? I'm giving my exams in May nad have no idea how the paper looks....I might just be the only one in the state giving APs this year...</p>
<p>so i'm like 99.99% sure i'm going to get a 5 on apush, even if it's a terrible day. i am definitely going to write WHY SO SERIOUS on the dbq & essays. god i've never been more excited for ap week.</p>
<p>i'm also amazed at how ap graders can interpret poor english - last yr for ap chem there were several parts where you had to write the answer & how you got it (justification) and i pretty much wrote like a 5 yr old in that even i didn't think my writing made any sense at all. and i got a 5 (much to my amazement).</p>
<p>@edthegurl: I'm not sure about the other AP topics, but my understanding in AP Calculus was that the two scorers had to agree exactly on the score. The rest of your description matches what I've heard.</p>
<p>definitely doing this for all my APs in june. psych, bio, and us, haha. screw readers bias!</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, TheMathProf!</p>
<p>I don't think they have quite so many u-substitution questions on the FR portion of the AP Calc Exam these days as they used to, but they almost always have some kind of areas and volumes question on the test.</p>
<p>So, you could try:</p>
<p>f(x) = g(x) at # and #
Let Whyso = #
Let Serious = #</p>
<p>------->Whyso
Area = S ........ [f(x) - g(x)] dx
------->Serious</p>
<p>If H(x) is an antiderivative of f(x) - g(x), then Area = H(Whyso) - H(Serious).</p>
<p>Just putting the arrows and dots in for spacing.</p>
<p>No idea if they would actually accept variable names like that, though. I think so?</p>
<p>LOLL!!! I will for sure do this! xDDD</p>
<p>Haha, my brother's GF put "This is Sparta" or whatever on her APES exam (mind you, this is the only answer she gave for one of the four free response questions) and managed to get a 5. XD</p>
<p>I'm doing this too. I'm going to have 7 essays to write, and it's going in all of them, lol!</p>
<p>In APUSH, some but not nearly all of the essays are checked by a table leader for accuracy to sure the readers are in line with the grading standards. Otherwise though, most essays are read just once. There are well over a million among 1200 readers in 7 days. You do the math.</p>
<p>AP french today –> pourquoi si serieux?
:p</p>
<p>Did this on AP Gov today. To hell with reader bias, I’ve heard both sides of that argument, there are AP graders tell their classes how funny they find it. So that means there could also be positive reader bias. XP</p>
<p>AHH</p>
<p>i just took ap govt and completely forgot to do it!!!</p>
<p>I’m going to wait until APES because I know I’m bombing that anyway</p>
<p>i did it on my u.s. gov’t and comp gov’t…:)</p>