Should I rescore my AP exam?

swhs12
Fri, 05 Jul 2019 14:05:41 +0000

Hello everyone - so this morning I got my AP exam scores and received 5s on APUSH and AP Stats but a 3 on AP Computer Science A. I was really shocked by my AP CSA score because I thought I did extremely well on the exam. Apparently 27% of test-takers got 5s this year and 49% of test-takers got 4s and 5s, which is really high I was extremely surprised because in school I had gotten a perfect MC score and a 5 on the practice exam, and a 100 on my final programming project, and I ended up with a 95 in the class. I also know Python and Swift and I created an iOS app from Swift, so I have a lot of experience with programming. My teacher told me she was almost certain I would get a 5, and I would be fine with a 4, but I received a 3 and I’m both super disappointed and confused about my score. There are students in my class I used to help with in computer science, and they got 4s and 5s, and many were slackers who played games during class and only studied a little.

I think CollegeBoard made a mistake with my FRQ scores because according to online score calculators if I got at least a 37/40 on MC and CB did not include my FRQ score I would have a 3 on the exam, which seems very likely because MC was easy for me. Is it possible that they forgot to add my FRQ score, or the FRQ grader was super harsh and maybe didn’t follow the rubric or something? I know I did well on FRQs because I was able to complete all of them and they were not that difficult.

I’m not sure what I should do now. Should I rescore my AP exam? Or should I cancel it completely and retake the exam next year?