How did the score distribution change without the guessing penalty?

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<p>Just curious, what were the effects of no guessing penalty on score distribution?</p>

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<p>i would imagine the score distribution didn’t change too much…they compensated losing the guessing penalty with increasing the overall difficulties of the ap tests, is what i’ve been hearing.</p>

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<p>Do you mean the scoring guidelines/cutoffs? The scoring distribution already changes quite a bit year-to-year.</p>

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<p>From what I calculated, the changes are worse for those who don’t get many wrong, and better for those who get alot wrong. Not much change for those in the middle.</p>

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<p>I’ll just compare a couple tests here:</p>

<p>5/4/3/2/1</p>

<p>AP Calculus BC 2010: 49/15/18/6/11
AP Calculus BC 2011: 47/16/20/6/14</p>

<p>AP English Language 2010: 10/21/29/28/12
AP English Language 2011: 11/20/30/28/11</p>

<p>AP German Language 2010: 25/20/23/19/13
AP German Language 2011: 23/20/24/20/13</p>

<p>AP Music Theory 2010: 20/17/24/26/13
AP Music Theory 2011: 17/18/24/27/14</p>

<p>AP Chemistry 2010: 17/19/19/13/32
AP Chemistry 2011: 16/19/20/15/31</p>