I just took the released exam, and I haven’t scored it yet (I’ll post my score when I do). But I wanted to know if only spending an hour on each portion of the exam is breezing through? I finished mc, and frqs within an hour each (I bs-ed one letter in question 6 entirely in the frq due to the outrageousness of it). I’m also wondering if it will be that easy for the real one like I’ve been told that having 10 minutes left-over is a good amount. Also its been 9 years, so would that mean that the test has changed a lot and/or gotten a lot harder? The thing is I’m not that talented on the topic, and only like 5 people in my entire school have ever even passed the exam LOL, so me finishing this test has nothing to do with my capabilities.
You have 90 minutes to finish each part of the test. Unless the they have redone the cirrculum (like they have with physics) It shouldn’t have changed, at least that’s what I would think. Considering the AP Stats webpage suggests the 1997 test for practice, I don’t think it has changed. You can usually search through old fourms to find out if it was an uncharacteristically easy or hard test. It is good to take multiple practice tests though to get a real feel for it.
I would say it’s good to have a little amount of time (5-10 mins) to check over your work to make sure you didn’t make any carless errors. Expect to take a bit longer on test day though as you’ll likely be a bit scatterbrained. If you can finish in an hour (and still get a good score!), all the power to you. Do realize that you will have to still sit there until the full time is up, so there is no reason to rush.
@Madeline25 I self-scored and got 4. I did do some careless mistakes due to rushing, even though it really felt like I wasn’t. I’ll try to use any extra time to recheck almost every problem. Yeah, I just looked up the exam from the actual testakers, and lol it was intentionally easy- even the testakers knew it was being released immediately after they took it. No wonder I did so well, the only other person that got a 4 was one person who was valedictorian and went to any ivy.