<p>If so, will it be strong enough to boost me from a 2-3 or from a 3-4?? or from a 4-5?</p>
<p>All AP exams are curved to some degree, and.. um.. what? It's curved BEFORE your 1-5 score is determined, so..... yeah.....</p>
<p>oh......</p>
<p>but it could only help, right?</p>
<p>duh
all exams have a curve
=) but ur way of "curving" is weird</p>
<p>It's curved by the fact that a certain raw score translates into your 1-5.</p>
<p>does anybody know the percentages to get a 3, 4, and 5?</p>
<p>That's not announced for a while. It's different every year. Does anyone know if the curve on the make up test is different from the one on the regularly scheduled test??</p>
<p>Last year, 6% of kids got a 5. What does that tell you?</p>
<p>Govt was really easy. I think I got a 5, but since the % of people getting 5's is so low, a 4 sounds nice</p>
<p>i hope i got a 4 but i probably got a 3. <em>sigh</em> hopefully these kids did not pay attention in class this year...</p>
<p>what percent got a four last year?</p>
<p>dang I think I might have made a three.</p>
<p>6%- 5
18.9% - 4
26.95%- 3
32.1%- 2
16.1%- 1</p>
<p>I know I'm in the 6% that got a 5. I nailed every single essay except the last part of #1 talking about how the SC has limited gerrymandering...even my govt. teacher had no idea and she has a BA in PoliSci. There was only 10 MC questions that I was unsure about and I looked up 8 of them in my book and I got all but 1 right. Oh I loved essay #3 because I am in Econ AP where fiscal and monetary policy is chapter 2 :)</p>
<p>I think that I also got a 5. The MC was a breeze and the FRQ was, too. The only thing that I can think of that I lost points on (I'm sure there are some, but these are the only ones I can think of) were that I couldn't remember the names of the court cases for the gerrymandering question. I talked about the court cases but didn't have the names, and I'm sure the names made up a few points.</p>
<p>Court cases I used were Baker v. Carr and Shaw v. Reno.</p>
<p>We studied 80 cases this year and those weren't even in the list :( IMO it is kinda obscure to ask kids to remember cases involving a relatively obscure topic such a gerrymandering.</p>
<p>Those cases were on the lists that the teacher gave out in our class.</p>
<p>swim2daend, the curve on the makeup test is determined independently from the curve for the regular test.</p>
<p>Did it actually say that you had to list court case names? I'm pretty sure you just had to say how they limited gerrymandering...</p>
<p>Yeah, you can use Shaw v Reno for that one. They asked for two ways the SC limited it, both of which can be found in that case. Anyway, the exam is REALLY easy in comparison to basically every other exam. Thus, the curve isn't ver generous. A 4 is good, a 5 is someone who could have gotten a 4 but either a)got lucky on mult choice guesses or b) got lucky and got FRQ that they knew about.</p>