<p>I took the AP Chemistry as well as the AP Psychology exam today. To be honest, Chemistry was weird. I’m not one to fall for superstitions, but I kind of find it bad luck that I kept getting the same letters as answers over and over again. Also, I hadn’t gotten D and B for like 15 questions straight sometimes. Same thing with Psychology! There were so many patterns in answers! So scary!</p>
<p>Guys what do you think the curve will be like. Yes I know that many people did poorly but does it really matter? Correct me ifI’m wrong but I believe the curve is made before the test. The thing that scares me the most is the percent of 5’s with ap bio went from 20% to 5% after the new change.</p>
<p>Even if the curve is pre-made, do you think they would change it once they see that everyone did so poorly? If less than 5% get 5’s under their curve, would they broaden the range?</p>
<p>Wait why are people saying the curve is predetermined? I’m pretty sure its not…</p>
<p>All hail the curve</p>
<p>Yeah I really don’t think the curve is predetermined.</p>
<p>The curve is pre determined. Collegeboard determines the curve by giving the test to college students who have just finished the respective college course and then they have some formula to compute the average scores into 1,2,3,4 or 5 on the ap scale. usually an A is a 5, B is a 4, and so on</p>
<p>No way that its pre-determined, especially with this new re-vamped test… I doubt that Collegeboard knew how we would perform </p>
<p>Let’s hope collegeboard gave the test to community colleges 
(no offense to anyone going to a community college)</p>
<p>It must be. The AP Bio test going from 20% 5’s to 5% 5’s has to be from a predetermined curve.</p>
<p>I am fairly sure they wrote somewhere that the Collegeboard was basing the curve off of the performance of college kids. Unfortunately, it is no longer a bell curve so it is much, MUCH harder to get a 5 on the Chemistry exam… which is why I’m super sad. :c</p>
<p>Guys like curves.</p>
<p>hey capitalamerica! we studied together? You guys got me prepared!</p>
<p>@MasterMaestro Hey! I’m really glad you pointed me to Bozeman (at least I think that was you). I had no idea he was going by the Essential Knowledge points in the curriculum and really helped with the MC portion of the test (I found it pretty easy because I followed Bozeman along with the Exam Description itself and could deduce certain answers based off what I thought would be the Learning Objective LOL). </p>
<p>As for the FRQ’s though… I didn’t even finish like 3.5 of the questions so I think I’m screwed for that. Hopefully I can get a 4 and call it a day. :/</p>
<p>Wait what essential knowledge points? And yeah I pointed him out! Watched 8 hours of that! Yeah I skipped number 6! I think barron’s tests were similar! </p>
<p>Does anyone know for sure if the free-response is worth 46 points? I saw a couple of people say that they think they got x points on the FRQs, both said they got x/46</p>
<p>If you take a look at the Course Exam Description, every video Bozeman made was based off of the contents of what was considered “Essential Knowledge” for the AP Chemistry curriculum. It was really helpful because there were some specific examples in the Exam Description that he went into detail on in the videos.</p>
<p>I also watched them across Saturday night and all of yesterday and finished them by last night. I also used Crash Course because Adrian Dingle ALSO seemed to follow the Course Description very closely. 
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<p>Unfortunately I didn’t take the Barron’s tests because I only got Princeton Review and didn’t have the motivation to go through more practice tests by last night. :c Maybe I should have though… D:</p>
<p>Ahh! Are you taking any other APs? Like AP Bio?</p>
<p>@hypnotoad107 Where did you get your data? According to collegeboard ( <a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap13_chemistry_ScoringDist.pdf”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap13_chemistry_ScoringDist.pdf</a> ), the percentage was 18.9%, not 5.4%. </p>
<p>I bombed mine. Probably 3/5 multiple choice and 4/7 FRQ…hoping for a low 4. Do you think I have a chance?</p>