<p>@genericana- aside from the two essays that you did write by skipping one the FRQ’s you automatically lose out on 24.5 points out of the possible 180, so yes your chances at a five were hurt</p>
<p>@patriotsfan1- on the contrary, bacon’s rebellion was the main factor that made VA planters realize that InSvnts werent the labor force they were looking for. Made them realize that InSvnts were to educated in the sense that they were keen what was going on around them, slave on the other hand were not</p>
<p>I overstudied for this exam. I got wrecked by the AP Environmental Science test, so I was expecting a similarly difficult test here as well. I got a max of 8 multiple choice wrong, but probably 5-6. DBQ was great - I wrote seven pages (Well, more like 6 4/7)! There was so much to talk about. But then, I felt like the FRQs might have tanked my score. The first batch were harder than the second. I think the second batch was agreeable, but not the best. According to that AP Pass link, I should be down for a 5. 8D; this is really encouraging, seeing as how I feel like i absolutely got wrecked by APES.</p>
<p>I thought for the MC I did pretty good, probably 60/80 at worst.
DBQ: Killed me cause our class literally stopped right at the end of LBJ. Used some outside info and most of the documents, took up too much of my writing time tho =(.</p>
<p>FRQ: Chose 3 and 5. For 3 I kinda wrote about how parties increased unity, by how they encouraged more participation from the public in government. Then had a grey area paragraph showing that they did have some effects with sectionalism.</p>
<p>5: I had literally 15 minutes left and barely got a skeleton of an essay out. Time was called when I went back to try writing a conclusion for 3 mid-sentence.</p>
<p>Do you think I have no chance at a 5 now cause of the weak number 5 frq, and having one of my FRQs have an unfinished sentence at the end now? =(</p>
<p>I just bombed that DBQ. Last night I read through half of the chapter on Nixon, then gave up, deciding it would be more useful if I studied things we’d already covered.</p>
<p>Hi guys! I have a question on how I did for essay 2 (slavery during 1603-1776)
For first and second info, I wrote about demand for huge labor force in Chesapeake areas’ tobacco/rice plantation. Then I wrote about how bacon’s rebellion led to fear of ind.servants and dramatic rise of slaves. </p>
<p>The PROBLEM is… My third one. I couldn’t think of anything, so I kind of “made up” a story with random facts came up in my head. I said that “some slaves participated on British/loyalists side during revolutionary war because british promised to grant freedom.” I think this was for native Americans, but …too late, I guess haha. Do you think my third info will affect the score badly?</p>
<p>ugh the mc were pretty hard. i think i got a lot wrong just for misreading the questions and/or not actually thinking about what they were asking. for instance i thought the dawes act had a negative connotation, so i thought it would NOT be a plausible answer for the helen hunt jackson one, but now i’m thinking it may have been the right answer… also my class covered most of the 20th century in just a month, so i didnt appreciate all of the 20th century questions. </p>
<p>all in all there were 27 that i was at least mildly unsure about, so im hoping even if just 10 of them are right, im at a 63 and in five range hopefully</p>
<p>the essays were alright. i included plenty of info so they know that i know my stuff, it’s just a matter of if they think my insight is insightful enough lol</p>
<p>MC - Thought I did pretty well, 60/80 at worst. </p>
<p>FRQs - I think this is where I did iffyish. DBQ was iffy at best. I talked a lot about Vietnam and how even though Nixon pulled out of an unpopular war, the fact that he held a lot of war facts in secrecy really hurt public relations (i.e. usage of napalm in villages, My Lai, bombing of Cambodia were exposed by journalists and not the administration). Also, way they handled domestic protests at Kent State also hurt administration’s public perception. HAD NO IDEA on the economy/oil, so I just kinda glazed over that. Then also talked about how internationally he wasn’t as containment-anti-Commie as his predecessors, repaired relations w/ Soviets/China and made U.S. look better, but at home too much secrecy with administration brought it down in public eyes (i.e. Watergate). Hopefully that was what they wanted…</p>
<p>Did FRQ 2 and 5. </p>
<p>For first one, I talked about how slavery grew out of indentured servants not being as useful/cost-efficient anymore and how slavery was necessary for colonies’ economic well-being, but also used as a way to keep rebellions down by stratifying society and making sure that indentureds/slaves didn’t mingle and plot together. Thought I did all right on that one. </p>
<p>Second one, also thought I did decent, basically wrote what everyone else did but I confused the Pan-African “community” as being like, actual communities. So I wrote that DuBois was advocating separatism as in separate black communities where blacks could flourish, i.e. Harlem. LOL FAIL. Everything else should’ve been fine though.</p>
<p>So how important is grammar, convention and spelling when grading the ap exam? Not too important right? Would it be the difference between an 8 and a 7 essay?</p>
<p>MC was alright… there were probably around 3 I had no clue on, and around 10 that I wasn’t at least 95% sure of. </p>
<p>The DBQ destroyed me. Everyone around me gasped when they read the prompt because our teachers barely covered Nixon, as they told us “there will hardly be anything tested that happens after the 50’s.” I think I nailed the international portion of the essay, but the domestic part made me feel like an idiot. I just rambled on about hippies and stagflation, without really analyzing… </p>
<p>The FRQ’s were good. I did 2 and 4.
In 2 I basically just said that slaves were introduced to the colonies and then became invaluable to the economy once they worked on plantations for a while. </p>
<p>I thought 4 was the easiest essay out of all of them. I didn’t know why everyone chose not to do it. I basically just said that in the 1840’s, people were really xenophobic, but in the 1920’s people just moved away and the immigrants mostly kept to themselves anyway.</p>
<p>I have no idea how well I did. I shouldn’t complain, because I went into this legitimately thinking I was going to get a 2, but after taking it, I would say I probably got a 4 or 5, the former being more likely.</p>
<p>July 1st: Call a number, pay $8 for your scores. If you live on the West Coast, that’s getting them about 3 or 4 days early. If you live on the East Coast, more like 3 or 4 weeks early.</p>
<p>I am placing all hope on a good MC score. On the mock I got really bad essays but nearly everything right on the MC and thus easily secured a 5. My essays were full of spelling mistakes (Debois anyone?) and outright misstatement (Nixon wasn’t impeached, wth?). </p>
<p>Please tell me the rest of America failed so the curve will be more kind…</p>
<p>and that essay on how slavery devolved was hard as heck… I just basically said the same reworded statement “It developed as a cheap source of labor to replace indentured servitude” for like five paragraphs…no CDs at all</p>