Before the test, in the classroom, my friend Lisa and I “studied” by drawing pictures of notable people throughout European history on the blackboard. We drew Hitler, Bismarck, Rasputin, and Napoleon.
The multiple choice wasn’t too bad, actually. But one of the two thematic essays and the DBQ? Sucked.
Of course, I answered them the best I could, still… ARGH.
The really horrible part was realizing that I could have skipped five questions on the multiple choice, instead of answering them incorrectly. Which I’m sure I did.
Well, at least the NYS Regents will be very easy compared to this.
Wait 48 hours!! (“The first rules of AP exams is you must not discuss the AP exam, except for you can discuss the essays 48 hours afterword.”)
And a DBQ, Document Based Question, is an essay where you are given several documents and are asked to refute, dispute, or discuss the question provided in the prompt.
DarkSide -
Have any other AP exams? Our school is pretty good with that - once you take 'um you get the day off. In past years you didn’t have to come to school at all once you completed the exam, meaning an extra month of summer, but The County won’t allow it this year. Still, being on a block schedule means that with 4 AP classes and one regular class I have had a pretty easy week and an extremely easy (read: boring) last month of school. We get to “review movies” from now untill summer. Actually, we aren’t even allowed to watch movies, but since basically all my teachers are leaving we feel the need to throw caution in the wind and let the world be damned. I could go on and on with details, since our school is comically inept (74-80 grown teenagers on an activity bus with a seating cap. of 40-ish, since we aren’t allowed to drive ourselves), but would rather save you the misery.
Anyway, I didn’t take the Euro exam today, and unfortunatly I don’t think I will next year. Instead, I took US History (today, in fact) because it was a graduation requirement. Actually, I took it prior to yours, and thought it wasn’t so bad. The essays weren’t the easiest but the MC was easier than anything I had taken all year, which isn’t saying much.
(If you’re curious I have also had English Langauge and Calculus BC and then sometime next week I’ll take the chemistry one. English was surprisingly anticlimatic, since our teacher is best described as a falsified aristocrat. BC was also unbelievably simple, especially compared to practice exams. Chemistry, however, will be “teh gay”, since our… er, nevermind - see above under “inept.”)
Way back when I was in high school I took the AP European history exam here in Kansas. Passed it and got the three hours of college credit.
Our teacher was a tough, no-nonsense guy. His ordinary tests lasted for two class days! Little did we know that he formatted them exactly like the AP exam, so we weren’t so blown away once we got to** that**! Thank you Mr. Wingo, and RIP.
Nope, I don’t have any others. I got pretty frustrated with the second thematic and since I didn’t know much about the three choices given to me, I wrote a whole ton of bullshit that was vaguely germane to the topic.
Feh.
Urg. My school is extremely behind the times. We have one AP class. One. English Lit and Comp. So of course I had to take it. After school, mind, because all my classes were full.
Took the test yesterday. Multiple choice questions were fairly simple. Yay for that. But I’m rather sure the essays killed me dead. Just plain dead.
I always rather liked the DBQs. I mean, they gave us all the information right there!
I took the AP Computer Science one on Wednesday. Realized I’ve learned nothing all year.
Took the English one yesterday. I thought it was fairly easy. The multiple choice was a breeze, and the free response wasn’t that bad. Especially the open-ended one.
Now I just have government and Environmental Science to go…
It freaks me out to realize that it’s been five years since I took AP tests. Not History, but AP Chem, AP Spanish, and AP English. I didn’t actually take the AP English class at my school because the teacher was a complete moron. The proof of how bad a teacher the man was? Both I and another girl took the AP English test without having taken the class. We got 3s. Everyone who actually took the class? Got a 2. Every one of 'em.
I still can’t remember why on earth I thought taking AP Chem was a good idea. I seriously drew pictures in my free-response booklet. The questions completely baffled me, so instead I drew pretty pictures and poems about bunsen burners and safety showers. And “Have a nice day of grading tests!” Figured I could at least put a smile or two on the graders’ faces, since I could get a single damn free-response question right.
I am impressed no one has bragged about their scores yet.
I guess that leaves me to be the first to do it.
Calculus BC, 5:
My calculator ran out of batteries in the middle of the exam but luckily the person sitting next to me had extra. Outside of the batteries I had little difficulty on the test and found it suprisingly easy. Then again I did have an excellent teacher and I think everyone in the class did well. I don’t think I will ever forget his interpetive dance of ‘integral’.
Physics C (whichever letter mechanics was), 5:
Another test that I thought was ridiculously easy. I like some others in this thread had the AP tests about 2-3 weeks before the year ended. I more or less stopped going to class then but this teacher made us do a project. I remember that even when we finished the damn project we started playing a board game or something and the teacher made us stop on our last friggen day in highschool.
Chemistry, 5:
I was suprised on how well I did on this test. We had that class for a period and a half and I spent most of my time doing the crossword puzzle. The first day of class I sat next to a friend on the last column and he ended up dropping so I was seperated by a whole column from everyone else in class. I remember one of the last days before the test the teacher and a couple other students were discussing how they thought they were going to do on the test. They started talking about me saying that they thought I was going to get a 5 and it wasn’t fair becuase I didn’t try. I was just sitting there thinking, Hello? I am 10 feet from you I can hear that you are talking about me :rolleyes: .
AP Euro, 4:
My experience was pretty similair to what the OPs was. I think with about a week left our class was still on the 1848 revolutions. I think we sped up until WWI which was a problem becuase the test covered up to present day. I ended up writing one of the DBQs on the Weimarch republic. Our teacher bought us donuts on the day of the exam which was pretty cool.
What was the English exam like? I always wondered if I should have taken it. Then again it was probably best I didn’t becuase I nearly ended up failing my last semester of English becuase I didn’t do one of the essays :smack: . I remember that I started my final research paper (that we had been working on for a couple weeks but I skipped most of those classes) the night before. Made up all the note cards with references and finished up the paper during the last day of school.
I took that test last year. All I have to say is: My DBQ was horidly easy. Of course it didn’t hurt that I had one of the greatest histroy teacher’s ever.
Is this an online test? High School test? College test? WTF are you talking about? What kind of test do you “study” for by drawing on a frickin blackboard?
Man, AP tests. That takes me back to times when I was angrier at the world, thinner, and had a lot more hair. I got:
5: U.S. History (11th grade)
4: English (American Literature – 11th grade)
4: English (English Literature – 12th grade)
3: U.S. Government (12th grade)
3: Macroeconomics (12th grade)
1: Calculus AB (12th grade… we had a mediocre teacher and I wasn’t mathematically-inclined to begin with.)
It was nice starting college with almost a full year of credits!
My AP European History Class was the best class I ever took in high school, from the best teacher I ever had. I took a textbook-length amount of notes for the class.
The best thing about the exam tho’ is that the morning before the afternoon exam, I read about Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika, etc. And then that was one of the essays! That was fun.
Daphne
(AP Euro: 5, AP US: 5, AP Bio: 5, AP: English: 5, AP: Vergil: 5, AP: Catullus/Horace: 4)
I took AP US History. Our teacher was of the “these students are adults, so I’m not going to coddle them” type. If we were noisy when we got to class, she sat quietly until we calmed down.
However, we never calmed down as we were 17 and full of ourselves. Many many days we sat talking for the entire hour. Not a single person in that class did better than a 2.
AP English was the easiest class I’ve ever taken, and the test was a breeze. I was all excited about getting to college. I skipped “composition” (one of the topics on the syllabus was “thesis statements”. shudder) and went on to the second semester of college English… Literature. The syllabus was EXACTLY the same as my high school class with one exception. Same books, same order. I wanted to cry.
The AP tests are college level tests that one takes in high school. Most colleges and universities will give credit for a matching course to students who xcored high enough. For examplle, I got a 4 (out of a maximum of 5) on my two AP history tests (that I took in 11th and 12th grade respectively) so RIT gave me credit for two history courses.
Drawing on the blackboard is not considered the best method of sudying
I took more AP classes than that (Physics and English Literature) but didn’t take the tests (I didn’t want to put myself through the Physics torture, and I had already gotten a 4 on the other English AP so I decided not to bother with Lit.)
I also took the Computer Science and European History tests last week. They were the first AP tests I have ever taken. I feel pretty good about the Computer Science test and not bad about the European History.
No, it’s not, because I have been ACTUALLY studying throughout the year. Drawing on the blackboard and writing information next to the pictures was a good way to help the both of us remember the things that the people did, I was having trouble with Bismarck, and Lisa was having trouble with Napoleon.
We weren’t just drawing on the blackboard. I’m sorry I wasn’t clear.
