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05-09-2008, 04:44 PM
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#31 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 241
| **** i thought it was really hard... that dbq was ridiculous | 
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05-09-2008, 04:46 PM
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#32 | | New Member
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Boston
Posts: 11
| does my last post reveal too much? should i take it down? People seem pretty hesitant to mention any details | |
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05-09-2008, 04:46 PM
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#33 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 196
| The dbq wasn't hard. There was quite a few good pov's that you could include on that one, and it was easy to tie the docs together.
Btw, are we allowed to discuss what categories we made or is that breaking CB rules? | |
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05-09-2008, 05:01 PM
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#34 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,339
| I wouldn't recommend talking about the categories, just to be on the safe side. | |
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05-09-2008, 05:07 PM
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#35 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: peach state yall!
Posts: 138
| mc had about 20 questions on women
dbq was heaven sent
i TOTALLY called essay5 (see first post in this thread)
i'm feeling so amazing right now, i can hardly put it into words
anyone know the exact formula for grading? like for mc, number right minus 1/4 number wrong X 1.066 or something? then dbq score X 2.33 and frq scores X 1.22 each? i know im really off, but you get the jist.
anyone know? | |
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05-09-2008, 05:10 PM
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#36 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 196
| 1.125 x number correct - .25 x number wrong [for mc]
4.5 x every dbq point [1-9] = dbq score
2.75 x every frq point [1-18] = frq score
You need 122 raw to get a 5.
I think I got 7 on dbq + 1 frq, and I know I got around 66 mc correct, so I'm in the 5 range regardless of how I did on the 2nd frq. | |
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05-09-2008, 05:22 PM
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#37 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: peach state yall!
Posts: 138
| 122 is a 5? what are the other ranges? | |
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05-09-2008, 05:23 PM
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#38 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 196
| 3 = 70 points +
4 = 102 points +
5 = 122 points +
This is all from Mr. Treadwell, who is the table leader for grading the DBQ. He told us this at the AP Review that Broward County annually. | |
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05-09-2008, 05:42 PM
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#39 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: St. Louis
Posts: 53
| I feel really good about it! The DBQ was so easy, I'm pretty sure I hit everything in the expanded core ON TOP of the core so I'm hoping for an 8/9. It was really easy to pull in outside historical data for it. How specific are the biases supposed to be? I used about 5 examples of bias but I'm worried that I wasn't always painfully obvious about it.
I didn't think the MC was too hard either, I only skipped one. Was it just me or did the answers seem really easy to narrow down? Like there were some pretty obscure or obviously wrong choices that were easy to eliminate.
What FRQs did everyone choose? I was between 2 & 4 and ended up going with 4 and I also did 5.
Overall not very bad, a lot of the people in my testing class were saying they skipped like 20+ on the MC! Speaks good of the curve... | |
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05-09-2008, 06:05 PM
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#40 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 196
| I did essays 4 and 7 mainly because I had reviewed those topics in depth recently =]]]
Yeah, some of the questions were odd, but it was very easy to narrow down. | |
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05-09-2008, 09:34 PM
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#41 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 185
| I had no idea how the whole dbq thing worked...I probably got a 0 on that. Was I supposed to say things like "and in document 6" etc. or to just allude to them? | |
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05-09-2008, 09:47 PM
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#42 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 14
| You could have just said:
Joe Shmoe in his Works said, "bla bla bla." (Document x) Then in next sentence, explain the document. | |
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05-09-2008, 09:59 PM
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#43 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 185
| Yeah, I didn't do that at all...I wrote a really good essay though...that failed to meet any of the criteria. I honestly would not have finished the essays if I had written it like that. I finished my last one with like 15 seconds left. | |
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05-09-2008, 10:21 PM
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#44 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbia '12
Posts: 639
| AHHHH I read one of the questions wrong, and instead of the 19th Century, I'd talk about the 20th Century for the entire essay.
I think the essay itself was okay though. Does anyone know how much this will hurt me? | |
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05-09-2008, 10:24 PM
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#45 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: SoCal
Posts: 213
| Did anyone else think that the FRQ prompts were absolutely atrocious?
(picked 4 and 7) | 
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