<p>wait do you mean 3 out of 6 on the frq’s? That seems generous…</p>
<p>KeysUpOnTheTable - Your theory about curves being set is flat out wrong as well. My teacher is friends with one of the AP readers and he says what they do is keep a couple of multiple choice questions from the previous year’s test, and see how the percentage of people who got it correct changes. If people do just as well on those questions, but worse on the rest of the test, then they give the same number of people fives and realize that the test was harder. If people do way worse on the anchor questions, then less people deserve fives and all of the other scenarios that can occur are used to define the curve. The curve is NOT set beforehand.</p>
<p>I probably shouldn’t have drank 2 glasses of water + had cereal for breakfast.</p>
<p>I couldn’t use the restroom and my bladder was about to explode by the end.
And I HATED the lab FRQ cause I couldn’t focus long enough to see if my explanations made sense.</p>
<p>Yea.curve being set beforehand doesn’t makes any sense at all anyway.</p>
<p>That was the hardest thing of my life . . .
I made up a lot of the answers.
Ah.
Hopefully they adjust the curve (if it actually is predetermined) and it all goes well. . .</p>
<p>I’m assuming it was a harder test because they took away the guessing penalty and tried to make the rest harder rather than adjusting the curve or something?
No idea.
I was just freaking out while taking the free-response . . .
And a few MC questions tripped me up - but I guess we can never talk about those. ._.</p>
<p>I also hate myself for not memorizing the flame test colors. I told myself there was no chance that would be on the test.</p>
<p>I remember looking at my PR book this morning and I skimmed over the colors of solutions and that one solution that I remembered was the one asked! :D</p>
<p>There are 150 total possible points on the exam. 75 from the multiple choice and 75 from the free response.</p>
<p>To get a 5, you need to get 100-150 points.
To get a 4, you need to get 81-99 points.
To get a 3, you need to get 62-80 points.
To get a 2, you need to get 49-61 points.
To get a 1, you need to get 0-48 points.</p>
<p>And yeah I don’t quite believe that the exam got leaked about a month ago. And even if it did, the test makers would not be “in a haste” to create a new exam because each year’s exam is created MANY MANY years in advance and passes through many revisions. So there are countless questions that could have been taken from future exams. As for the curve, I’m pretty sure that the scores are not adjusted if everyone does well or if everyone does poorly. Aren’t the AP exams standardized… meaning “standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a PREDETERMINED, standard manner.” I think questions get thrown out only if practically everyone gets that particular question wrong (it is determined that no one got that question right aside from chance guessing).</p>
<p>Guys that was the hardest thing. Ever. </p>
<p>The MC was harder that the older ones my class took. It wasn’t completely impossible though. I think it was medium. Did anyone else finish? I didn’t finish the MC and had like 5 questions left blank :(</p>
<p>And the FRQ was death on paper. I didn’t finish a single problem. I just did the parts I knew from each question and the easy parts. ■■■…</p>
<p>But if everyone on CC thinks its hard, then the curve should be huge! :D</p>
<p>Haha I remember the flame test question. There was only one flame color I knew, literally one. Guess what, it was on the test.</p>
<p>Me and luck were broskis on the MC. Then the rest of the test came.</p>
<p>No. Look at the 2002 and 2008 multiple choice question raw score-AP score conversion. They are both different. Reason being is because the exam standards are set by the test takers.</p>
<p>Same with free response. Each year the curve is different.</p>
<p>Haha “me and luck were broskis.” And I also remember looking at the flame colors last night from Princeton Review and not memorizing them cuz I was like, what arethe chances that they would ask that? And so I got one point off for sure hahah.</p>
<p>and no i think the reason 2002 and 2008 are slightly different point values was the fact that they got rid of the guessing penalty. when htey did that, they had to adjust the frq weighting for each question so that the test would still be 50%-50%. so when they adjusted the guessing penalty and then made each mc 1 pt, they had to alter the frq points possible to 75 as well.</p>
<p>If MC was any harder than any previous years ( it seemed a bit harder ) it was probably because of no guessing penalty.</p>
<p>But all I need is a 4 to get the most credit at my local university so I think I did okay.</p>
<p>This is a pretty accurate AP Score Estimator: [AP</a> Pass - AP Chemistry Calculator](<a href=“http://appass.com/calculators/chemistry]AP”>AP Chemistry Test Score Calculator - AP Pass)</p>
<p>Have fun messing around with numbers. Even in worst case scenarios I see myself getting a 5, but we’ll see.</p>
<p>Did anyone find the FRQ kinda frustrating. Some parts of it were insanely easy (like first week of freshman chem easy) and then the ones i couldn’t answer were just stupid. Like no amount of studying would have helped me answer those anyway. I did so many FRQ from previous years and i liked them cause they were hard but i knew a lot and could answer them, but this year was just kinda stupid. Part a-e = insanely easy part f-g = ???</p>
<p>And MC felt a lot harder than previous years. I did 2008, 2002, and 2009 and i usually finished with 20+min and didnt miss more than 8 on any other those. For this ap test i finished with like 10min and i didn’t feel as confident. </p>
<p>Its frustrating that sooo much stuff wasn’t even mentioned at all. Stuff i spent hours studying, not even 1 mc question.</p>
<p>Oh well, its to be expected. I felt the same way about Bio last year and i didnt even answer the first FRQ and i still got a 5 so well see.</p>
<p>Anyone else not finish MC and FRQ?</p>
<p>A lot of people in my class thought it was difficult and I couldn’t agree more. The first few sets of MC questions were hard but then the rest went more smoothly…</p>
<p>Then to the FRQ’s. I love how someone said the first question was bloodshed, because that’s exactly what it was. parts C/D i had no idea. 2 & 3 weren’t very good either. 4-6 I felt like were easier than the first 3 but still difficult nonetheless.</p>
<p>I would like a 3 because i can still get college credit that way which is realistic for me.</p>
<p>i felt like i was good on time. like i wasnt rushed but i also couldnt sit back and waste time. and i am usually a super slow test taker. and i COMPLETELY agree with hte frq being super easy and then super hard. some parts were actually so easy i wonder if i did them right. and then yea the f’s and g’s were like ridiculously hard i felt like theres no way i coulda known them.</p>
<p>Wait, did we come to an agreement on the score needed out of 150 to get a 5? Since many people are saying it’s hard, I would say it would be around 75? Anyone agree?</p>
<p>Did anyone else get sort of suspicious that they got 3 multiple choice answers the same letter in a row or is it common for that on an AP?</p>
<p>“Did anyone else get sort of suspicious that they got 3 multiple choice answers the same letter in a row or is it common for that on an AP?”</p>
<p>A few people in my school were talking about that, actually, so you’re not alone. </p>
<p>Also I tried out that AP score calculator posted a few minutes ago. Best case scenario is a spot-on 100. Well, at least I’m feeling that I got the 4 I want, so I’m happy.</p>