AP Exam Prep Scores Updated - MC#3

Here are the updated scores - pretty decent results.  I noticed the higher scoring tests have a lot more pencil on them (underlining, ruling out potential answers etc.), so we should talk about strategy.  In class I give you very generous time to really think about the answers, but on the official exam you won't be able to spend much more than one minute per question.  

Here is some advice from AP on the official site.  We've been doing some of this.  

To quote: 

"Remind students that the multiple-choice section always presents a combination of easy, medium, and hard questions for each passage. These questions generally follow the chronology of the passage rather than transition from easiest to hardest or vice versa. The most important factor, however, is that they all are worth the same points. Therefore, a sound strategy for students is to make sure they get credit for all the easy and medium answers first. That means choosing which questions to answer and which ones to skip and then returning to answer if time allows. A student who spends too much time on a single, hard question may not get to answer two or three easy questions in a later part of the exam."

Interesting point of contention we've discussed:

"If students have no idea of what the correct answer might be, instruct them to leave it blank, as there is a quarter-point penalty for guessing. This is the same process used on the SAT exam. Students who guess incorrectly actually lose the point that they would have received for a correct answer and an additional quarter-point as a penalty. This means that for every incorrect answer, students lose 1.25 points. When the exam is scored, these points are totaled and deducted from the number of correct answers."

ALIAS

APMC#1

APMC#2

APMC#3

In-Class Stythesis

Stitch

15/22

8/11

14/17

9.3/10

Gingerbread

14/22

10/11

15/17

9.1/10

Pooh

13/22

6/11

14/17

9.3/10

Tom the Cat

20/22

9/11

16/17

9.1/10

Simba

19/22

10/11

16/17

9.1/10

Peekachu

19/22

8/11

15/17

9.0/10

Nemo

22/22

11/11

16/17

9.6/10

Elmo

11/22

7/11

11/17

9.2/10

Modapi

21/22

9/11

13/17

9.1/10