Liist

A 1 is definitely not a best shot. It means you're not qualified at all. 2 means you're possibly qualified (and at least understood part of the material).

There really is no difference between a "best shot" and getting a 1 and Christmas treeing the test and getting a 1. It's all the same on your grade report. Similarly, barely making a 5 is the same thing as getting a perfect score.

BigIs

^ True, but having three AP Courses on your transcript and not having scores for any of them is worse than having three mediocre scores. That's what I mean by "best shot."

momreads

Well, you could be at my son's school where they plan to take the Calculus AB exam knowing they will get a 1 and do not care about the score. They just want the weight so their GPAs go up.

vesper39

I am fairly certain I can atleast get a 4 on the Calc test if not a 5. We have been doing full ap packets every night since second semester. (almost 50 now).

Chemistry on the other hand, I have a mid A in the class and that is only because I seem to have good short term memory and the tests/quizzes are over small sections only requiring few concepts and 1 or 2 equations to work with. It is just hard for me to maintain and understand the concepts in chemistry so when I take practice AP questions I usually remember learning the topic but have no idea how to solve the answer. Multiple choice kills me too. We had a Mock Multiple choice test last week and it felt like the test was in german for me. And no, I dont understand german :X

History wouldn't be so bad but we had a very very slacking teacher and never had homework assignments. 95% of the class never even read the textbook. So basically i'm just going in taking the test with my prior common knowledge.

I really could care less if I get college credit for chem and ushistory. I just dont know what SAT II to take other than Math IIC though... My chemistry and history are both too weak to score mediocre and I haven't learned physics yet. I'm guessing my only choice is Math and English Lit?