<p>@millancad: Granted, everybody is different, and everybody may not have that experience. You’re probably just one of those super-geniuses, which is okay.</p>
<p>However, what may seem like common knowledge to you is not common knowledge to all. Otherwise anybody who has taken a basic world history course should be able to ace the exam. Such is not the case.</p>
<p>@alazee: 6</p>
<p>I did okay, but I feel that I couldd’ve done muchh better; I didn’t have enough time to check the test. for some reason I decided to retake the whole test after I was done, when usually I check over the ones I wasn’t sure about first… but this time I just ughhhhh I wasn’t thinking. I got to check only half and I think I left some blank that I was meaning to fill in later. I’m still kind of mad at myself for that…</p>
<p>essays were surprisingly easy! When I saw Rome & Han China, I was like “YES!!” Hopefully I got at least sevens on all of them c: Think I might’ve not done such a good job on the COT though… I had 45 minutes left over in the essay section so I rewrote my DBQ, which was completely ALL over the place XD</p>
<p>I better have gotten a five :|||||| kinda nervous, I’m not as confident about it as human geo (but I did overstudy a lotttt for human geo)</p>
<p>The MC was realllly easy. Left none blank, but I’m pretty sure I’m only going to get a few wrong. Everybody in my class thought it was easy too. So, =/.</p>
<p>The essays were a bit harder than I expected. DBQ was okay, the second one was good (I forgot to put in into a global perspective though =[), but the third one was my worst.</p>
<p>We’ll all see in July =P</p>
<p>I did really well on the essays. Had causation in every paragraph for CCOT and comparative, and 2 evidences in most of them. Surprised I pulled out so much info considering while I was writing my DBQ I had no idea what to talk about when I looked at the prompts. DBQ was a littleee tricky, did anyone put 5 documents in 1 paragraph? I never did that before, freaked me out a little. I’m confident I can get at least 7’s in each one, maybe like an 8 8 6 would be reasonable.
As for MC, a few of the questions were hard. Taking that into account and assuming I missed others, I could see myself getting about 10 wrong and being okay…</p>
<p>Predicted Score: 43/67 (3 Omits)
DBQ: 8/9
CCOT: 4/5
Comparative: 7/8
I’m either getting a surprise 3, high 4 or borderline 5… lol.</p>
<p>Alright it’s finally all over! So MC was alright, overall probably a little easier then I thought it would be but there were still quite a few (8-12) I was iffy on, ended up leaving only 2 blank, not sure if I should have left more, but our teacher had instructed us that if we could eliminate at least one choice it was worth guessing (I never really believed this was right, yet still followed it on the exam.) </p>
<p>Overall the essays were alright, DBQ took me forever, and when I say forever I really mean it. I swear I usually am stellar at DBQ’s but I just couldn’t get them grouped right, ended up having 5 different groupings, which I think might of been too much. The DBQ ended up being like 6 pages or so for me. The CCOT was alright, I think my continuities and changes were pretty on par, but my evidence I used really wasn’t that specific nor stellar. As far as the CC goes, fine I guess. One of the choices I knew quite a bit about, but the other I didn’t know all the much. Might of made it a 6, I think I had about 5 similarities and 2 differences but overall each of them individually weren’t that insightful so that may come back to haunt me. </p>
<p>Looking back I’m wondering if it’s possible I made my essays too long, never thought about it but could something like that make the reader a bit annoyed? </p>
<p>This was my first AP Exam, and I must say for all the hours I put into studying, I really wonder if I could have done just as good if I hadn’t studied so much the last few days. It just seemed to me like a lot of the “important stuff” was missing. Time to go burn all my notes, review book, flashcards, handouts.</p>
<p>^My AP World Teacher says to make your essays kind of middle of the road like 1.5-3 Pages because you may be one of the last graded, and your grader will give up and just give you a crappy grade.</p>
<p>Oh and forgot to mention it was kind of funny the fire alarm at my school actually went off during the MC portion of the exam (ended up being a false alarm triggered by some flooding) but it was just kind of funny because our Proctor really looked like they didn’t know what to do with us. After about 2 minutes they told us to close our booklets, not say a word, and go outside, unfortunately before we got outside they announced it was a false alarm.</p>
<p>^There was a legit alarm pull that no one knew about at the end of the day, and some people didn’t finish AP Euro on that day. lmaoo.</p>
<p>@MattNC Darn well I guess I’ll have to pray the reader has a loooong attention span. </p>
<p>And how would they do that with a legit alarm? Is that test not valid then? That would suck if you had to take another entire exam.</p>
<p>Yeah my teacher told us that writing a lot, like 3-4+ pages isn’t necessarily better. It’s just the core points and if you did a good job after that you earn 2 more, writing 5 pages may or may not help you any more than say 2 pages, and could annoy the reader</p>
<p>@Seahawks506 Aww man, wish my teacher had told me that. </p>
<p>I love reading on this thread how some people put little apologies at the end for their handwriting. I should have wrote a note apologizing for my length of my essays.</p>
<p>My teacher told us he’s given kids 9’s for writing 3/4’s of a page, so all you have to do is cover what’s asked.</p>
<p>Matt hit the nail on the head. According to my teacher, who is a reader, some students can get the max points in a matter of 10 to 20 sentences to 3/4 of a page. On the other hand, some of the 3+ page long essays can end up with 2-3 points, no matter how beautiful the essay is. This is not a writing exam; they don’t care if you write like a bestselling author or like a bum. All they want is the information that is asked.</p>
<p>@SeekingUni God I think I screwed up big time then…</p>
<p>I mean, I’m sure I had the information they asked were looking for, I just presented it in a super formal lengthy way.</p>
<p>i thought it went fairly well. the m/c was a lot easier than i had expected. the essays were also went well, with the second question being the easiest thing i’ve ever seen. btw, my dbq was like 5 pages. i really hope the reader doesn’t get mad lol</p>
<p>don’t worry Kylash, i did the same thing… o-o" my wording was so long and weird…
nobody ever told me that readers want the essays short x_x!</p>
<p>Anyone else think the MC portion of the exam was a bit difficult? Aside from that, I thought the prompts were really easy to write about except for the DBQ, since I’m not sure my groupings really answered the question. >_></p>
<p>hey ronaldo, so there wasnt any prompt on migration after all :P</p>
<p>Yup. Silly rumors. Anyways, my second and third pages were only 1.5 pages long and I provided “weak” examples since I either didn’t know the subject in detail or was just plain running out of time. (I finished the essays with like 3 minutes to spare.) Is it still possible to get a 7+ on the essays?</p>