APUSH Essay Percentages

ebonytear
Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:25:32 +0000

how do u guys get this info…??

like Grad '06, my teacher has been an APUSH essay grader at san antonio for 10+ years. They give an overview of the results…so when she came back, she shared all the stuff she could with us that was legit. - essay percentages, and what the readers were really looking for on all the essay questions.

they do ‘curve’ it. what happens is when there is a horrible average (like Grad '06 said, at least one of the lowest average scores ever on a FR), the CollegeBoard freaks out and thinks that it was a problem with the question itself (which I do think it was; it was very vague and that’s probably while people a) did bad or b) didn’t choose it) - rather than ‘oh it was a hard question, too bad’ - and will give the people who wrote on that question an extra boost. Its just like how they take a MC off the SAT if it is badly worded or has multiple ‘right’ answers - they give you extra points if you attempted the ‘faulty’ FR. So they probably don’t see it as ‘curving’ but as ‘fixing’ their problem.

— my teacher told us to study colonial and pick that question, because they almost always have to do this ‘fixing’.

Doogie311: I’m sure there were good ones. I’m just saying the average grade was horrible. Out of interest, what did you put?