<p>Can anyone please add me to the google doc with the MC questions? I can pm you guys my email if you need it. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@NWIStudent Concerning this comment: “Is anyone else taking Form B tomorrow? Everyone in Indiana is due to election laws requiring school to be closed during primary days.”</p>
<p>Are you talking about late testing for the May 5th AP Chemistry exam? If so, I think it’s just a local area thing. I also live in Indiana and all of my county’s schools were open as normal throughout the elections. I took the exam as scheduled by the College Board. </p>
<p>hey everyone, it looks like some good news so far for this year’s AP Chem Exam. I don’t know if any of you guys have seen this, but AP Trevor (the head of the AP Program) posted this on twitter saying professors unanimously believed the AP Chem Exam was very challenging. This seems to indicate a fairly lenient curve…meaning something close to what it was before (around 66%) or maybe even better. Here’s the link to the conversation: <a href=“https://twitter.com/AP_Trevor/status/476116674681511938”>https://twitter.com/AP_Trevor/status/476116674681511938</a></p>
<p>How did you embed the twitter quote into the post? 0.0</p>
<p>Anyhow idk man… might be a 5% for all 5s like AP Bio.
My AP Chem teacher said the graders want less 5s, but then again that might be 10-15% of 5s, not 5%.</p>
<p>Just because they thought it was challenging doesn’t mean they’ll make the curve too lenient, but it’s good to be optimistic 
I think 10-15% 5s isn’t too bad, I’d be okay with that. I just don’t want it to be like AP Bio was (5% 5s) but there’s a chance it will be. I guess we’ll have to wait until Monday to see! </p>
<p>@jarjarbinks23 i didn’t do anything special, just copy+pasted the url of the conversation and that happened…haha
and yea ik i had to deal with bio last year as well…like 15 kids out of 130 who took in in my school got a 5…and thats impressive considering 5% total got 5’s. yeah i just wanna be optimistic. last year, if you remember, the bio exam was not necessarily difficult. you just needed an 80% raw to get a 5. IMO the chem exam was harder than the bio exam last year, so maybe they won’t do the same thing? idk wishful thinking
@Lovemydolphins and yes, they release score breakdowns on monday! may the curve be ever in our favor :D</p>
<p>Do they ever release the curve?</p>
<p>Ugh I can’t take this waiting any longer!!! My release day is the 9th :’(</p>
<p>I’m really hoping for a 5… I think I got high 70% on it so I should be OK according to the Bio stats last year.</p>
<p>What exactly is released tomorrow and what time?</p>
<p>Wow, AWESOME news regarding AP Chem exams! :D</p>
<p>AP Chem teachers felts students should earn 34 pts in the FR section to get a 5. But statisticians decided on 31 pts given the exam length. Out of 42 (with no Q7, that’s a 74%ish)</p>
<p>College faculty and AP teachers agreed the AP Chem free-response section was too long, so the final question was discounted in the scoring. (Glad to know they are reasonable!)</p>
<p>2014 AP Chemistry Scores: 5: 10.1%; 4: 16.6%; 3: 25.7%; 2: 25.8%; 1: 21.8%. These may shift slightly as late exams are scored.</p>
<p>I’m thinking we are very lucky with all that has happened! :D</p>
<p>^
That is actually horrible news, the amount of people who got 3’s or lower increased by 15% in comparison to last year.
Also, those who focused more on the last question than other questions lost the potential time to focus on other questions for no reason.
Doesn’t seem fair to me :/</p>
<p>Well, I’m considering how bad it could’ve been. I was concerned that the % of 5’s would be like 6-7% like Bio was last year, so that’s primarily what I was looking at. Also, from what I’ve heard, lots of people didn’t even get to the 7th question, but I see what you’re saying. 
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<p>Ughh, I thought I did really well on the last question too</p>
<p>Whoo, question 7 was the only one I felt bad about. I am alright with the curve too.</p>
<p>No, they didn’t just take question 7 out. Since question 7 was worth 4 points, all they did was require 4 less points to get each cutoff score than they would have before. Any points you earn on question 7 you still get.</p>
<p>I hope so.</p>
<p>Yeah, they just posted the clarification on twitter; the total number of possible points is the same, but in order to get a 5, you need to earn 4 less points (that of #7)</p>
<p>That’s good news, I still don’t have a chance though.
If you hear soft sobbing from a distance it totally isn’t me.</p>
<p>Honestly, it’s better than I expected. If they wanted to be terrible about it, they could have kept the initial number of needed points for a 5, and disregarded the teachers’ input saying that it was too long. I’m really glad they considered the “too long” factor. I’m happy 
The % of people who got a 5 is better than I expected. Given Bio’s drop to 5% last year, 10% is pretty good. It’s actually higher than the % of people who got a 5 in Euro (the other AP exam I took this year). and Euro hasn’t been redesigned yet.
Best of luck to everyone!!!</p>
<p>Wait…AP Trevor said on twitter that “62 students earned all 50/50 pts” on the multiple choice. I thought the multiple choice was out of 60?</p>