Shazam! Hazah! Booyah!: Domination
So, most of you probably remember that I was in complete shock after taking the AP Physics C examination, feeling that the test had raped me terribly. As it turns out, I may have still been raped, but the rest of the test taking population was raped in a far more miserable fashion. My AP scores came in the mail today, and I was, needless to say, in utter disbelief. I was in so much disbelief, in fact, that I had difficulty speaking coherently for about five minutes, as I tried to describe to the cool things (i.e. spectroscopy, CCD imaging, and more) that we can do with our C-14 telescope. And so here they are, in order of my taking them:
Calculus BC: 5
(AB subscore: 5)
Physics C Mechanics: 5
Physics C Electricity and Magnetism: 5
Environmental Science: 5
US Government and Politics: 5
Comparative Government and Politics: 5
Macroeconomics: 5
Microeconomics: 4
All were somewhat of a surprise except for Calc and Microeconomics. Calc is not difficult and the curve is extraordinarily generous. In Microeconomics, the classroom next door was being really loud during the test and I had a lot of trouble concentrating, so I did very poorly on the multiple choice but nailed the free-response. Unfortunately, the free-response is only worth one-third of the overall score on the economics tests.
Colin is amazing. He taught me the entire GOVT&POL COMP AP curriculum in 20 minutes of chatting before the test and I passed it.
Chemistry: 4
Statistics: 5
Micro: 5
Macro: 4
US Govt: 5
Comparative Govt: 3
All exactly what I deserved and predicted except macro. I think I may have screwed up on some fundamental aspects of the interest rate on the free response. Chemistry wasn't geared for the AP and I only attended a couple of the study sessions.
Nice. Your comparative government score is indeed impressive given the circumstances. Everyone that I've talked to from Marchese's class (except Kiva, who got 5s on both) has gotten one 4 and one 5 on the econ tests. At least we've done light years better than last year's class on the exams. As for chem, I've heard that most people do terribly on the AP because the class isn't geared for the test.
I actually thought I might recieve a three on the chemistry exam. On some parts and particularly on sections of the free response, it really requires you to understand and predict the behaviors of many different chemicals in varying environments (i.e., what will disassemble and react if you have a brick of lead in an acetone solution with chlorine gas being bubbled through). I think that if anyone plans on taking the Chemistry AP, she should definitely attend the study sessions or else forgo the possibility of scoring a five. Statistics was so easy, I think that a competent mathemetician could score a five with only one day of learning and studying.
Yeah, I got straight 5s. I felt quite pleased with myself at the time. Now I feel stuck up posting it. But thank you, Ted. It wasn't all me, you had to be paying attention.
Congrats indeed! Although I don't think that anyone (with the possible exception of yourself) is surprised by your results.