Ugh, AP Euro. I got a DBQ on freaking FESTIVALS. It was terrible! Everyone in the department agreed! Bleah.
(Euro:4, US:5, Chem:5, Spanish Language:5, English Language:5, BC Calc:5, Physics C - Mech:5, Physics C - E&M:5, US Govt:5, Spanish Lit:4. I would’ve taken AP English Lit, but I was competing at this Federal Reserve thing the day of the test, and the retake day was the day after graduation and I didn’t wanna.)
AP exam scores, eh? Well, this is MPSIMS, so I’ll play.
5: Microeconomics
5: Macroeconomics
5: Physics B
5: Statistics
projected 5: Calculus BC
projected 4: English Language
projected 4: Biology
Biology is the one I’m worried about. It’s tomorrow 
That gives me a total of… about 30 credits. I can take 4 classes every term and graduate on time. Shwing.
I have a friend who grades the AP Euro exams every summer 
In days of yore, I took the AP Euro exam, scored a 5 (only one in my class actually!).
Ended up eventually with a doctorate, and am at the moment revising for publication in an academic journal an article on the Kinks.
Keep studying, kids.
You know, I don’t know whether this has changed since I graduated high school, but there used to be no requirement to actually take an AP class in order to take the exam. I’d wanted to take AP English, but it didn’t fit into my schedule. I decided to take the exam anyway, and got a 5. The Honors English classes didn’t cover all the same material, though, so I did have a moment of panic on an essay topic which was “Describe the use of the element of time in one of the following works…” and I hadn’t read any of them, all the way down to the last one, which was "Death of a Salesman. " Whew.
So see if you can talk to a teacher about the exam content, and you may be able to get some AP credit anyway. It can come in mighty handy - I got 24 semester hours of credit (English Lit, Spanish Language, Spanish Lit, U.S. History), which meant I could graduate college in 3 years and save a bundle on tuition.
(I figure it’s OK to talk about my English exam, as I took it in 1986.)
The music group, The Kinks? Awesome.
No. My brother took the AP Chemistry test without taking the course. I think he got a 3, but I’m not sure.
Urgh, I have AP music theory tomorrow and AP psychology on tuesday. Fortunately, I don’t give a crap about receiving college credit and I get to leave once the tests are over, so I guess things could be worse.
Yes.
I took 4 AP classes, but took only the exams for History and English – my two 5s got me only 9 credit hours (3 classes) at my university.
You must have been working hard on it. All day and all of the night.
To continue with the flow, I will add that writing that is probably just dandy.
And, the only two tests I have taken so far are AP Studio Art and AP World History. I got a 2 and 3, respectively. Art I should of done better at, but didn’t really care all year, and World History was a lost cause once I realized that we had spent an entire 2 weeks on the importance of cave painting. To further add to my excuse, I didn’t know to skip any and we only got to about the Age of Exploration. We “taught” ourselves the rest.
Both were awesome classes for socializing, though.
(And I project either a 3 or 4 in English, 5 in BC, 4 or 5 in US, and a good solid 4 in Chem.)
Ha-ha! I just got the questions for the AP Euro exam this year. I called the DBQ and two of the FRQs, and tangentally hit two more. I feel so much better about my students chances on the test this year than I did Friday afternoon!
Hope everybody who took it did well. It’s over until next year.
Just like Big Bad Voodoo Lou, except it brings me back to a time when I was less angry at the world, bigger, and had less hair.
My AP American History (10th grade) and European History (11th) teacher was Phil Abalan. I respected him more than any other teacher, and I absolutely loved those classes. He died of a heart attack on the morning of Dec 7th in my senior year, coincidentally as I was walking to his office to ask him to write a letter of recommendation for me.
I always suspected he knew I was coming and was trying to get out of it. Sneaky bastard…
11th grade also featured AP Composition, which apparently is called something else nowadays. Newfangled names. Confusing! Damn kids… offa my lawn…
In my senior year, I took the AP American Government and Comparative Government exams. Comparative covered the governmental structures of Britain, France, Nigeria, China, and … and … something else. Are those still the topics, or has the exam content changed?
That year I also took the AP English Lit exam. That spring, I was tagging along with the track team, as the father of one of my friends offered to pay me $5/hr to videotape the track meets. Fine with me, especially since there was a lot of downtime. The day before the exam, I spent eight hours at the stadium, of which five minutes was spent filming. I didn’t bring any books with me, but I found a copy of The Merchant of Venice left in a seat. I read that cover to cover a few times, including all of the analytical essays in the back.
Coincidentally, that was one of the major essay topics. Easiest 5 I’d gotten.
Well, heh, as long as we’re bragging, here…
5: AP English Language and Comp
5: AP English Literature and Comp
5:
Aw, crap…stupid submit space-bar button…
5s: Lang and Comp, Lit and Comp, Biology, Chemistry
4s: Physics (Mechanics), Physics (E&M), Statistics, American History, European History, Microeconomics and US Government.
I studied for the last two on my own. And I chickened out on Calc, even though, in retrospect, I probably would’ve gotten at least a 4.
We didn’t get anything special for taking them, as far as I remember. After we took them, though, there was some goofing off. We built a robot in physics :).
The former U.S.S.R.
“Five countries form the core of the AP Comparative Government and Politics Examination. Four of these countries – Great Britain, France, China, and Russia/the former Soviet Union . . . . For the fifth country, teachers may choose to cover India, Mexico, or Nigeria.”
long list of my own AP results deleted in the interest of false modesty
The year was 1986. I was taking two AP classes: European History and English. I was in 12th grade and I had taken to hanging out with the drama geeks in Play Production and they kind of adopted me as one of their own despite the fact that I wasn’t actually enrolled in the class.
One day, it was announced that they would be taking a field trip to the local community college to meet with the drama instructor there and look over their facilities. The teacher was cool, he liked me, so I got invited to go, as well. So, I had a trip slip, and I got a couple of teachers to sign it, but I forgot to get my AP Euro teacher’s signature. The day came, and I had to turn in my trip slip, but it wasn’t completed. So, I just forged the signatures of the teachers I needed and turned it in. The field trip was a blast, but then I did something supremely stupid.
The next day in AP Euro, the teacher asked for my excused absence slip. “I don’t have one,” I stupidly admitted, “because I was on a field trip.”
“A field trip?” Roared my teacher. “I didn’t sign any trip slip!”
Cut to: I’m in the principal’s office, and the prinicipal is telling me that my AP Euro teacher wants me expelled for forging his signature on an Official Document. The school administration, though they agreed that what I had done was a serious offence, declined to go to that level of punishment. My teacher had countered with a demand that I be removed from his class, barred from taking the AP test, and given an “F” for the class. The compromise that was reached was that I would be removed from the class, given a “C” (I had earned a “B” up until that point anyway), and allowed to keep my textbook and take the test.
I then had a private meeting with the teacher, at which he was pretty much allowed to say whatever hateful, vengeful things he wished to say to me, and then I was supposed to apologize to him for what I had done. Which I did, for the sake of closure. I was really only sorry I hadn’t handled the situation better at the start.
For the time that I would have otherwise been in AP Euro, I spent the next two months as the ostensible Teacher’s Assistant for my Chemistry teacher. He didn’t actually need me to do anything, so I spent many hours making paper airplanes and sailing them out the third floor window of the clasroom.
I got a 4 on the AP Euro test despite missing the last two months of the class.
Interpretive dance for integrals? I still remember Mrs. Conley, an older lady that was our geometry teacher in high school. She had the driest, most outrageous sense of honor, and was still teaching at an age where most people would be kicked up at home in a spot of sunlight. (course, that could be my sophomore self’s interpretation of ‘older’ talking)
I’m surprised so many of you still remember exactly which AP exams you had, let alone the scores. The one I remember most clearly is the AP Calculus AB test, which I pretty much bombed. 
I actually still have the score report and the test booklets (from 1983). Am horribly pathetic…
I used Death of a Salesman for my English essay, too. My question was about conforming to society externally while not doing so internally (only they phrased that much better.) They used The Awakening as an example. The fact that I was able to apply that to Death of a Salesman was really lucky- we produced that show earlier this year, which meant that I had read the script (and re-read several parts of it) and heard it (I was backstage, and therefore didn’t actually see it) several times, over and over. Heck, I was able to throw a couple of quotes in from memory.