<p>Haha. Nice guess, guys. I have the AP Chem Exam that you guys are talking and it only has answers. No curve or scoring. </p>
<p>Is there a google doc for the AP test answers out there?</p>
<p>um no</p>
<p>@ajm1428 lol seriously, you kidding?</p>
<p>MCs are pretty easy indeed, FRQs are just… different…</p>
<p>@mathpop I meant for where people are discussing the answers lol.</p>
<p>Hi everyone, </p>
<p>I read that the new exams have such harder scaling because the scales are based off of what college professors determined a 5 should be, not what a college students scored when they took the pilot exam. There was an article about this. </p>
<p>link to article plox</p>
<p>Overall the exam was harder than I expected… The multiple choice was kinda confusing and Im sad we cant talk about them… Hopefully I got around 50+/60.
The free response was dumb. I did something stupid on the bonding one and I think I messed up the first one on a couple of parts. The last one was so stupid!!! I think I may have messed up that one badly. Hoping for 32-26/46 Hopfully. And like everyone is saying… Hail the curve!!!</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know the rationale for only having 1-5 scores? It seems crazy to me that someone who scored 30% lower than you could get the same score. </p>
<p>I think they should have taken the top 5% out of last year’s AP bio kids and given them a “6 or a 5+” and left the rest of the distribution the same (by subtracting top 5% from the top 18 or so percent). College board wants 5s to be the new gold standard but I think that just hurts everyone involved.</p>
<p>@ReesesPieces Link us to the article </p>
<p>@Wskimo @mathpop <a href=“New AP Biology Exam Creates Controversy – The Scroll”>http://scrollonline.net/new-ap-biology-exam-creates-controversy/</a> </p>
<p>Quote: This change has partially come about due to changes in how the test is graded. In years past, it was based on a panel of college students taking biology courses who took the test. This gave an extremely accurate representation of how the scores should be distributed, as the AP Biology course is designed as a college-level class. Now, the scores are determined by a panel of college professors.</p>
<p>Another article that alludes to this: <a href=“2012 AP Exam Score Distributions”>2012 AP Exam Score Distributions; (look at the AP bio section)</p>
<p>I’ll let you all decide if those are reputable sources, I haven’t got the time to fact check (cramming for calculus!) :-S </p>
<p>@ReesesPieces let’s just hope it was only for bio and/or they learned from their mistakes :/</p>
<p>@Quickswitch123 But do they even think it was a mistake? There was backlash, certainly, but they seem to be very much on board with the “5 is the new gold standard” idea, and I think college profs are backing it.</p>
<p>Well obviously college profs like a harder scale since the colleges themselves don’t want you to skip classes that give the money… They’re gonna want you to retake classes, so the get more tuition fees. So they like only a tiny percentage of people getting 5s.</p>
<p>@mea7130. I think it’s fair that you have to retake the course if it’s essential knowledge for your major-- 1st year university courses are more condensed and rigorous in general than APs–this has been shown by countless students saying how difficult they found the courses compared to the AP counterparts and studies to see if AP students who had taken the concurrent course had any advantage. They generally didn’t.</p>
<p>Profs want a scale so they don’t have unprepared freshmen in second year courses of that subject (after testing out of the intro class) who aren’t prepared for the rigorousness of college. This doesn’t benefit any party that is involved because students often struggle.</p>
<p>I think they should do an SAT type scale, or at least a 1 to 10 scale. 10 would be the near unattainable score, 9-10 would get credit, and you wouldn’t have students with 30% score differences lumped together in a “3” or “4”. </p>
<p>@MasterMaestro Sorry for the super late reply :(. Basically I competed in Academic Decathlon and learned the majority of microeconomics then. I also studied it as my competitive event for FBLA, so I just decided to take the AP test since I pretty much know a (relatively) crap ton about Economics now (unfortunate I didn’t place at state with my lowly 89% because California is California). Government was just kind of interesting so I picked it up, and Human Geography was my friend’s idea because he wanted National AP Scholar. :3</p>
<p>MC wasn’t easy… And the FRQs needed more time to solve!
I am taking 5 AP subjects </p>
<p>When will CollegeBoard release the FRQs? I heard someone say in two days But that sounds impossiBle. </p>
<p>The questions typically are released two days after the exam, but the CollegeBoard is not required to release them ever. Check on their website Wednesday afternoon.</p>