usually, my teacher said, there's a DBQ about the 20th century, and the two open essays are: one about the 1800s and one about anything before that.APUSH, on the other have, i feel pretty bad about. i know most of your basic stuff, but i spent the last month going hardcore for biology because my teacher is trash. i guess i'm just gonna cram shit for the next 2 days. any ideas on what important themes could be, and what the essays will be on?
I don't know about you, but I found the multiple choice much more arduous than the essays(not necessarily harder). Those freaking questions were like reading comprehension more so than bio! Even the answers were reading comprehension. It was really quite ridiculous. But once you get past that, I really didn't find too hard.i think i destroyed the new AP bio. multiple choice was supremely easy, i don't think that i could have made less than 80% on it. a lot of the time i was able to BS it because 1-2 of the answers were just completely and obviously wrong. overall i prefer the application questions to straight up memorization i think. partly because of how fucking boring memorizing all the shit for bio is, and partly because the application made it easier to guess if you weren't sure.
the essays tho were pretty tough. i know i at least fucked up on the X/Y/Z cells, because i blanked and just said Z was a nerve cell, and i might have fucked up on the chi squared shit because we didn't learn that. i figure as long as i get 60% on the essays or so (judging from the composite scoring stuff on the old exam), i should get a 5. i feel very good about my 5, if i end with a 4 i'm gonna be mad.
APUSH, on the other have, i feel pretty bad about. i know most of your basic stuff, but i spent the last month going hardcore for biology because my teacher is trash. i guess i'm just gonna cram shit for the next 2 days. any ideas on what important themes could be, and what the essays will be on?
I think you want to be fairly solid with the 1800s since it's essentially the most tumultuous period for the US growthwise and shaped how it came to be, the review book I has also says the multichoice is split up into 17% Colonial|50% 1800-1915|33% 1915-and they split up the 2 essays into before/after 1865, honestly you probably want to know about the eras in which the presidents were strong and influential [Washington (with Hamiltons influence), TJeff, Jackson, Lincoln, Teddy, Wilson, FDR, Truman, Nixon] stuff like Coolidge and Hayes probably wouldn't show up on an essay since they werent very assertive as president and didnt shape a lot of stuff, also late 1800s/early 1900s is a goldmine between Industrialism, Agrarian Revolt, Progressivism and WW1, I'm half expecting something from the progressive era.Bad Ass said:APUSH, on the other have, i feel pretty bad about. i know most of your basic stuff, but i spent the last month going hardcore for biology because my teacher is trash. i guess i'm just gonna cram shit for the next 2 days. any ideas on what important themes could be, and what the essays will be on?
you only need like a 65% to get a 5 on an AP exam, so it doesn't seem like you should worry at all!But yeah the only AP im taking is apush since im a junior and dumb as rocks at math and sci [so basically in general lol] but im hoping to rock it and get a 5 although myself and most of the class have sort have been slacking up until this weak since the ap questions are markedly easier than the tests our teacher gives us, doing some terms and practice quizzes as i type this. Does anyone happen to how exactly it's scored [or a good calculator since the one i found seemed kind of off]? Ie, can I get a 5 with like 80% of the multichoice and 7s/8s on the essay, i'm shooting for a 90% on the mc [only 8 wrong] but again I haven't studied a whole lot so I'm not entirely sure how realistic a solid 90 is.
One of my friends advised me to put C for every question I guessed (Gaussed?) on.I finished the E&M multiple choice pretty quickly, but that's because I used this little-known test taking technique called "wtf guessing" in which I look at a question
Feel the same way, I also picked 4 and 7. The MC was decent but like you said it was more about whether you knew it or you didn't, nothing really to analyze from knowledge. I would be kinda disappointed with a 4, I really want that 5.Euro was boring. They give way too much time. This didn't mean the MC was easy because they were mostly random facts about people or events that you know or don't know. No reasoning or anything like that. There were good options for the essays but since there were three of them it was a bit tedious. Must be great for the english people writing 20 essays in one sitting. Luckily with the 2 hours plus some 15 minute reading it was easy to write a paragraph, put my head down for 5 minutes, and repeat until everything was done. So if there's any advice about essay based AP tests, it's to bring a pillow. I chose essay 4 and 7, about the sciences and about the authoritarian regimes respectively. Not too worried about score since only like 50% is needed for a 4 or better.
pretty damn prepared, my teacher has gotten like multiple awards and shit for being awesome lolmy asshole is still bleeding from all of that physics b
Pwnemon, how prepared were you?
It's time for: DON'T FORGET THE RUBRICSTaking the AP World History exam tomorrow. Anyone who's taken it before have some last minute tips?