In general from what my teachers and counselors have told me there's a general progression towards the tests getting harder, especially in certain subjects ( I think they mentioned USH especially, I know bio was super hard last year for lots of people, idk). There's still the same three versions of physics, Calc is the same, and from what I heard psych was not all too easy yesterday. Stats definitely isn't all too much of a joke anymore (i mean, it's easy to pass imo, but very few people get 5s), and the histories are definitely really hard unless you're actually interested in the material. afaik they shifted away from asking really simple generic questions that anyone who read a crash course would know (e.g. what is the declaration of independence) and towards questions about like, trends and periods and how they affected America/Europe.So it's been 8-10 years since I took AP exams...just curious to know if anything has changed.
When I took physics, there was 3 versions; a dumbed down no calc version, and then a calc version split into 2 parts: mechanics and E&M. Is it still like that?
Calc was AB and BC, with BC two college semesters worth (basically AB was derivatives and bc was derivatives plus integration, with smatterings of differentials and sum and series in each). Still like that?
Psych / econ / gov / all 3 histories / stats were considered the jokes / easy 5s...still like that?
When I was taking them, it was agreed that chem or the languages were probably the "hardest" to get a 5 in, but that determination was more a general feeling smart people came to when talking to each other. I remember viewing the stats when I took them and the percentages showed that more people (percentage wise) got 5s in calc bc / physics / chem than like, us or world history. I remember, at that time, chalking it up to more stupid people taking the histories than the maths / sciences.
So how the are trends / general smart people feelings on the exams nowadays?
Still the same? Or have things changed (like is us history actually hard now, as opposed to the total joke it was in the past).
Guys is it just me or are AP Gov Exams getting harder every year? Because n class we've taken all the previous ones for practice and this year's was hard as shuckle
It's a nice calculator, but it probably will have different values from the actual test, considering it uses curves from 2009...Took APUSH today, I have a great teacher so I felt really prepared. The MC was pretty simple, the DBQ was really really simple, and then the FRQs were average. Most people picked 2 and 4 but I picked 2 and 5 lol oops. The curve for APUSH is so lenient that it's pretty easy to get a 5.
Btw if anyone wants to calculate their possible AP score, I recommend using this.
is your apush teacher my physics c teacher gender swappedDTM said:despite my horrible teacher (I've come to the conclusion that she doesn't teach, just steal stuff from the internet. Still like her as a person, just not as a teacher)
I've heard the curves only change a few points every year, but who knows.It's a nice calculator, but it probably will have different values from the actual test, considering it uses curves from 2009...
We had a kid get caught posting online during a test by the collegeboard's dragnet internet surveillance, dunno what happened to the scores of everyone in the room though.Serious question: has anyone here ever actually heard about anyone who has actually been penalized for talking about the test? In my school no one gives it even three seconds of thought, but I can't exactly speak for the rest of the world.