<p>From the College Board:</p>
<p>
[quote]
beginning with the May 2011 AP Exam administration, total scores on the multiple-choice section will be based on the number of questions answered correctly. Points will no longer be deducted for incorrect answers and, as always, no points will be awarded for unanswered questions.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>I noticed that the College Board Web site has not yet been updated to reflect this change, but that should be coming soon.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard a thing about this from my AP Spanish Lang. teacher.</p>
<p>^It’s already been well-established in the AP forum that this is, in fact, true. Sally Rubenstone is giving us the official statement. Haha, I like the title too; very clever!</p>
<p>Cool! I hope my teachers catch on and start grading their tests accordingly.</p>
<p>But when you’re doing practice tests, to calculate your score you should still deduct points for wrong answers to get an accurate assessment, because the previous curves were based on that.</p>
<p>^CB has made “revised curves” to accomodate this change (you can find them at the College Board Store; PM me if you need more detail). However, nobody knows if these curves were guesstimated or if they were recalculated from the old data.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>It’s my understanding that high school AP coordinators were only just notified of the change. So, given that it’s summer, many teachers may not be in the loop yet.</p>
<p>Yah, and my teachers have told me the questions are harder.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Thanks, sd6. But, sadly, the truth is that your guess probably isn’t as good as mine … in fact, yours would be much better. I cringe when I think of what I might score if I took any AP test at my age!</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I doubt that’s true. The curves will be harsher, but the questions should be of the same difficulty.</p>
<p>Personally I like this policy, because I’m someone who cannot bear to omit questions. Whether or not this has significantly hurt my AP/SAT scores etc. is unknown, but now I can guess more freely.</p>
<p>I wonder why College Board is implementing this change now… and also only to the AP exams, not for the SATs. Personally I don’t really like this policy, because usually even if I don’t know the answer I can eliminate at least a few choices. Also, I’m especially prone to careless mistakes, and I’m guessing since the curves will be harsher, the minimum raw score cutoffs will be higher.</p>
<p>Haha it sucks for ppl taking the exams for 2011+ Oh wait, I’m one of them…well it’s senior year soo…who cares!</p>
<p>I agree. As someone who takes advantage of the current system this change can only make the tests harder.</p>
<p>I’m actually kinda thankful this was my last year of taking tests…I for some reason feel like the guessing penalty always made me make sure I really understood what I was studying and helped me score better overall. I don’t really feel the way about this I would think I would have a year or two ago.</p>