Crushed about AP score?

Well, you have to take into consideration that it is a bell curve, and for all you know, you could have been like a fraction of a percentile off from getting a 5…

Try not to dwell on it too much…I mean I know its hard, because I’m exactly the same way, but sometimes bad things happen to good people. Like that chemistry guy…Louis Pastuer, he was only graded mediocre in chem, and he went on to make radical changes to the field. Turns out he was brilliant all along…even if his friends got higher scores than he did.

If there was something you could do, I would tell you, but I honestly don’t think there is. You should see this as a learning experience…you are more than your test scores, and I’m sure you’re just as smart as your friends who got 5s.

Hope my rambling helped…

It probably wasn’t political comments that made you get a 4. More than one person grades each free response problem, and it isn’t likely that two graders would want to screw you for political comments (and if one but not the other did, a third reader would have to get involved).

If you did something as little as not cleanly erasing any mistakes on the Multiple Choice, or get off on numbering on the multiple choice but don’t notice that you did, you could have easily gotten a four. You could have also made a stupid mistake like mis-numbering your pages on the free response (like marking the wrong question number at the top of the page), so it’s possible that you might have gotten a 0 on one or more of the questions (In fact, I almost messed up two of my essays on the AP Lang exam by switching the numbers of the essays in my head and then putting the wrong ones on the paper, but luckily I caught the error when I was proofreading the essays). Also, practice exams are not always just like the real test. If you used real past AP exams, then maybe they more accurately would have predicted what you would get in the end.

Also, remember that only about 6% of people get a 5 on this exam. You did well. The knowledge that you gained from the class is more important than the score.

“You could have also made a stupid mistake like mis-numbering your pages on the free response (like marking the wrong question number at the top of the page), so it’s possible that you might have gotten a 0 on one or more of the questions”

The graders would sort through that kind of stuff. The difference between a 4 and 5 is not a big deal at all but i say go for a rescore if it brings you peace of mind.

I was kind of upset that I got a 4 on that one too, but I did better than most of my friends… so I don’t know what to say. I’m sorry you’re disappointed with your score, but it’s probably accurate. Maybe the practice tests you took were easier than the real thing, maybe you got something mixed up in your head on the test date. That sucks. But you still passed!

The main thing my Government teacher told us was: NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR POLITICAL OPINION!

However, I don’t think putting yours would have affected your grade. My teacher encouraged us (well, in his cynical half-joking way) to write all sorts of crap on the essays once we’d answered the questions. The graders are obligated to read everything you write down… he’d done the reading in years before, and told us to try to entertain the readers… we dedicated our essays to our teacher, wrote off-color jokes, song lyrics, drew little pictures, colored in the margins and extra space with our pencils, all sorts of things. I wrote a bunch of crap in French about how the test was stupid, I was bored, and would much rather be sleeping. So I don’t think that could have affected your score, even if the reader disagreed with you. On government, you get points for very specific things in your answer, and in theory they try to give you as many points as they can.

Remember that it doesn’t affect your chances of getting college, no matter where you want to go. And the majority of scores give equal credit for a 4 or 5 on the exam, so there probably won’t be any difference. Cheer up.

Don’t be to crushed, i got a 4 on the AP European Exam.

It doesn’t affect your chances of getting into colleges.

I misread an essay prompt on my AP Euro test and wrote my whole entire essay on a whole entire subject…

Instead of the three parts in the third ESTATE, i thought it was the three parts of the THREE ESTATES….

Yea…I know how you feel….

if you think you got a 5. call college board and ask them for a rescoring however, it costs money of course. ITS COLLEGE BOARD.

i think u should just accept with what u got.