AP Exams

Swamp-Rocket said:
You guys seriously had to skip essays on the AP Lang and Comp exam? I wrote something for all of my Lang&Comp exams... the essays were sort of confusing for the topics at times but I managed to get something in for all three of my stuff. I mean, all you have to do is write something related to the prompt if you want to get a score
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unless you already know the exam isn't going to count, of course you do SOMETHING. I did my best to write good essays in all three sections. I just don't think I succeeded.
 
i just took AP stat and thought it was fairly easy. none of the multiple choice were utterly confusing and most of it was just general concepts rather than actual math. the free response also wasnt that bad except for the last one. i literally had no idea what they wanted us to write down so i described patterns and shit
 
Took comp and stat. 7 hours of testing was balls but the tests were easy.
@above I thought 6 was the easiest free response, but there might be multiple forms or something. Did yours have anything to do with weather patterns? (I know this is technically against the rules but come on it's not like the man can find me or anything)
 
my teacher last year said question 6 in stat is intentionally the most difficult—it's made to apply concepts you were taught to a problem you were not taught, basically "going further."
 
Part b of my number 6 was taking the average of 4 numbers. I understand that 6 is usually hard, and all the 6s we practiced were hard, but this one was baby easy.
 
ap stats easiest shit out there. could have done it in 90 minutes not 3 hours, and we started late so i got out at 445 pm.

also found a typo on one of the free response, it said -.2, not -.02
 
yeah my number 6 was about typhoon frequency and whatnot. it wasn't hard in the manner that i didn't know the material, it was more hard in the manner that i had never seen a problem like that before, and didn't know what would qualify as a "correct" answer. the part of the problem i enjoyed the most was the fact that it asked you to add 4 numbers in one problem and graph the point in another. free points!!
 
ballabrown24 said:
yeah my number 6 was about typhoon frequency and whatnot. it wasn't hard in the manner that i didn't know the material, it was more hard in the manner that i had never seen a problem like that before, and didn't know what would qualify as a "correct" answer. the part of the problem i enjoyed the most was the fact that it asked you to add 4 numbers in one problem and graph the point in another. free points!!
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lol same here. i honestly had no clue what half of it was looking for, but even if i completely missed it, i still get an easy 5
 
im not sure but I think the first part just wanted the mean median standard deviation etc of both and some general comparison between the two. The second (i think?) part was a little weird, I just said where the graphs were increasing and decreasing and the general trends. The rest of the question was a joke.
 
...shit. I just made comparative stemplots and wrote a sentence about both of the shapes..

The second one I just said they were slightly going up/down
 
I feel like that would probably work too (maybe better than mine idk)
I said 6 was the easiest because it required the least effort, and it's not a big deal considering it's 1/4 of number 6 or 1/2 the points of a regular free response.
Also you only need to average like a 2.5/4 on the free response to be within 5 range assuming you don't majorly screw up the multiple choice
 
I used Gatsby & Walden as examples for the 3rd essay on AP Comp, thought that one was ok. The synthesis essay I thought was fine although some of my friends said you needed to pick a side whereas I just described what the question was asking for? I dunno...

Essay 2 was garbage, I hate the rhetorical strategy ones generally but that one made me particularly annoyed.

Still have AP Bio and APUSH left, 1 down 2 to go.
 
So I thought that the comp multiple choice section was 120 questions (the max on the form, dunno what test requires that much) and paced myself accordingly. Boy was I surprised to find out I had half an hour left when I was done.
 
I did AP Calculus AB on May 8. Overall, I feel like I did well even though the only preparation I ever did for the test was in class. I didn't find the multiple choice that bad, but I didn't have the time to answer a couple of parts on one of the free response questions.

I thought this test was going to kill me since I didn't do much studying (read: none), but when I actually took the test it really wasn't that bad.
 
Swamp-Rocket said:
You guys seriously had to skip essays on the AP Lang and Comp exam? I wrote something for all of my Lang&Comp exams... the essays were sort of confusing for the topics at times but I managed to get something in for all three of my stuff. I mean, all you have to do is write something related to the prompt if you want to get a score.

Exam itself wasn't really that bad even though I'm a pretty bad at reading composition - I'm 90% sure I passed that one. I also took AP Computer Science on Tuesday and I though it was fairly easy, and I'm expecting a 4 or maybe even a 5 on that one. I'm stressing out more about AP US History than anything, like the other 190 or so people in my school taking the class
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I'd argue that AP lang/comp and APUSH are of similar difficulty, just take it easy and know that the multiple choice is curved really nicely (66/80 is the lowest 5 mark not factoring in essays).
 
Anyone else taking AP Music Theory tomorrow? The class has been pretty much cake for me so far and I've gotten easy 5's on the practice exams we've done. Hope anyone else taking it feels the same way. Only problem with it is that it's a slight inconvenience for me that it's in the morning since without the test I'd have a late start because I already passed my literature Keystone exams (state testing).
 
My apologies if this is a stupid question: are most of you AP testers in college right now?
Multiple AP exams are offered at my high school but the very few peers of mine who get a 5 on any of the exams are either the most highly studious among us or the subject is their forte... for now I think I'll go cry in the corner of inadequacy.

Thanks to co-credit with a nearby college that will transfer to the school I want to go to, many of my peers and I don't have to take nearly as many AP tests this year, including skipping over Calculus AB, Biology, Lang & Comp, French, etc., but I still need to take Microeconomics and U.S. Government (already took Environmental Science this year too). In past years I've taken Lit & Comp, Euro, and APUSH.

Ready to get these over with.
(Really though, has anyone else taken the Env Sci exam? Because, leveling fields with lasers. That's integrated pest management for you.)
 
Anacrusis said:
My apologies if this is a stupid question: are most of you AP testers in college right now?
Multiple AP exams are offered at my high school but the very few peers of mine who get a 5 on any of the exams are either the most highly studious among us or the subject is their forte... for now I think I'll go cry in the corner of inadequacy.

Thanks to co-credit with a nearby college that will transfer to the school I want to go to, many of my peers and I don't have to take nearly as many AP tests this year, including skipping over Calculus AB, Biology, Lang & Comp, French, etc., but I still need to take Microeconomics and U.S. Government (already took Environmental Science this year too). In past years I've taken Lit & Comp, Euro, and APUSH.

Ready to get these over with.
(Really though, has anyone else taken the Env Sci exam? Because, leveling fields with lasers. That's integrated pest management for you.)
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er... why would you take an AP exam if you were in college? pretty sure all AP test takers are gonna be high schoolers
 
I don't know. Perhaps a clear example of why I do poorly.

Better question: has anyone else encountered a bizarre/bordering on silly question or answer choice, on any exam?
 
I only have 2 this year: Calc BC and Biology.

I thought BC was mixed; the non-calculator sections kind of threw me off, but I think I aced the calculator section. Most people get a 5, so I'm hoping I get that :)

Biology on the other hand, ugh. I'm not excited for tomorrow.
 
did anyone take the ap bio test? i hate the new format and i thought the multiple choice and grid ins were challenging but the essays were alright.
 
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?
 
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