Bluemofia
F=ma
The AP Euro DBQs are significantly easier than the AP US ones, because you don't need to include outside information. Just use what they have in the documents.
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Lockesdonkey
Liberal Jihadist
Bluemofia said:
Agreed. The year I took it, we got this question coming way out of left field on the role of sports from the late 19th century to 1940 (pun intended!). Since nobody bothered to learn anything about it, except for perhaps the fact that Coubertin founded the Olympics in 18gghermem, and that Hitler seemed to be pissed when Jesse Owens won in Berlin, it was actually easier to write the essay--there wasn't any interfering information.
Go and do it. With my knowledge of world governments, I could have taken the Comparative Government test this year, I could have gotten a 5, but when the time rolled around I didn't know that. Then my friend, who did take it, told me about the test (in broad terms of course
), I got SO ANGRY because I could have answered all the questions in my sleep. 
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
I'm taking Euro this year and I have to say that the DBQs from last year were harder because I had to cram in a ton of information which I then had to pull out for use on the DBQ. Should be a fun class though, I love history!
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
Agreed. The year I took it, we got this question coming way out of left field on the role of sports from the late 19th century to 1940 (pun intended!). Since nobody bothered to learn anything about it, except for perhaps the fact that Coubertin founded the Olympics in 18gghermem, and that Hitler seemed to be pissed when Jesse Owens won in Berlin, it was actually easier to write the essay--there wasn't any interfering information.
Go and do it. With my knowledge of world governments, I could have taken the Comparative Government test this year, I could have gotten a 5, but when the time rolled around I didn't know that. Then my friend, who did take it, told me about the test (in broad terms of course
yeah. it is ALWAYS a good idea to take a test for the subject that you're knowledgable in. A bunch of my friends are fluent Chinese speakers, and found the AP Chinese exam fairly easy. And chinese isn't offered in our school ( as much as I wish it was)
Bluemofia
F=ma
Your first AP class and exam always generates good memories... I remember when we were done taking the Euro exam 2 years ago, and we were discussing about the test's essay questions... Turned out that one of my friends wrote about Germany sinking the Lusitania being a very great cause of Germany's loss in WWII. 
He later then wrote about the wrong president in the AP US DBQ.
Well, I'm a fluent Chinese SPEAKER, but am illiterate in Chinese (100 characters doesn't count). How would I do?
He later then wrote about the wrong president in the AP US DBQ.Well, I'm a fluent Chinese SPEAKER, but am illiterate in Chinese (100 characters doesn't count). How would I do?
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
Thats the only thing I dislike about Chinese, how much do you need to know to fluently write and read?!
Btw, how do you guys all manage to get 5's on all of your exams?! Is there a technique to it?
Btw, how do you guys all manage to get 5's on all of your exams?! Is there a technique to it?
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
Your first AP class and exam always generates good memories... I remember when we were done taking the Euro exam 2 years ago, and we were discussing about the test's essay questions... Turned out that one of my friends wrote about Germany sinking the Lusitania being a very great cause of Germany's loss in WWII.
Well, I'm a fluent Chinese SPEAKER, but am illiterate in Chinese (100 characters doesn't count). How would I do?
oh well my friends could write too. I think that there's a speaking portion and a written portion but I'm not 100% sure.
Bluemofia
F=ma
Like 5,000 or so for the bare minimum. My parents say that once you memorized 1,000 you can start guessing the words effectively.
Umm.... By taking exams you are naturally proficient at? I enjoy History, and am good at math... And I am a science freak. The only APs I've taken are History, Science, and Math ones.
Aside from being good at the AP you are taking, I get extra help from teachers if I don't understand (or if I am taking an AP when I didn't take the class), and learning how to do well on the MC. (it makes up the bulk of the points) The Free Response are sort of your last ditch attempts to get points from my experience, and basically you need to know what they are looking for for points. EX: in Calc AB/BC, they will give you a point if you have the right units down, but nothing else; in Bio they will give you some points if you answer the question without elaborating (though not much points); etc.
I have a friend that speaks Cantonese, and he did poorly by Asian standards (a 4). So he's retaking it. And I'm assuming that it's based like the other foreign languages with a reading, a listening, and a speaking part. That would be me unable to do the reading and listening (because you need to write down the answer). And since the reading part is also the MC... I'd be screwed.
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
Like 5,000 or so for the bare minimum. My parents say that once you memorized 1,000 you can start guessing the words effectively.
Umm.... By taking exams you are naturally proficient at? I enjoy History, and am good at math... And I am a science freak. The only APs I've taken are History, Science, and Math ones.
Aside from being good at the AP you are taking, I get extra help from teachers if I don't understand (or if I am taking an AP when I didn't take the class), and learning how to do well on the MC. (it makes up the bulk of the points) The Free Response are sort of your last ditch attempts to get points from my experience, and basically you need to know what they are looking for for points. EX: in Calc AB/BC, they will give you a point if you have the right units down, but nothing else; in Bio they will give you some points if you answer the question without elaborating (though not much points); etc.
I have a friend that speaks Cantonese, and he did poorly by Asian standards (a 4). So he's retaking it. And I'm assuming that it's based like the other foreign languages with a reading, a listening, and a speaking part. That would be me unable to do the reading and listening (because you need to write down the answer). And since the reading part is also the MC... I'd be screwed.
glad you could remind me of asian standards...
my friends and I comparing to see who got the highest score on that latest chem test, and which one of us unlucky losers got a 4 on the AP Bio test. Ah, good times.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
Ouch! That means no Mandarin learning for me.Like 5,000 or so for the bare minimum. My parents say that once you memorized 1,000 you can start guessing the words effectively.
Oh.
You'll take an AP test without taking the class? Man, you're crazy.
Asians worry too much about test scores, a 4 would be fine by me.
I do, hope, though, that I get a 5 on the AP Spanish test.
Unlucky you got a 4?! I'd be thanking god (unless it was a class I expected to do better in).glad you could remind me of asian standards...
Bluemofia
F=ma
glad you could remind me of asian standards...
Sounds like what I do. (I won the Honors Chem Final one. Only missed 1 question, and got an A+ for the semester. And AP Bio I scored a new record for the school by only missing 10 questions out of a 119 question final.)
How is AP Chem? I heard it's one of the hardest 3 AP exams. (Chem, US History, English III)
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
AP Chem the class was really difficult. But our teacher pushed us with such discipline that we pwned the AP test with a high percentage of 5s.
I realized how pointless it was to compare test scores and now I look back laughingly to those days :sigh:
Bluemofia
F=ma
I see. That's like how our AP US works. The teacher murders you with work, and then everyone scores high on the exam.
It makes you feel better about yourself. That is the point of comparing them.
It makes you feel better about yourself. That is the point of comparing them.
CIVPhilzilla
Reagan Republican
You must of took it the same year I did. I remember the proctor told us to open our packets, everybody read the question and then everybody was looking around with the same confused look on their face. I ended up writing more on my essay about why the German's lost World War II than the DBQ.
Integral
Can't you hear it?
Finally got the results in.
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Calculus AB, US History, English Literature. All 5's, worth a total of 16 credit hours.
Also have 17 credit hours from various college classes taken in junior and senior years. I took the college classes to make up for having such a small battery of AP's.
Integral
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Calculus AB, US History, English Literature. All 5's, worth a total of 16 credit hours.
Also have 17 credit hours from various college classes taken in junior and senior years. I took the college classes to make up for having such a small battery of AP's.
Integral
