Ap Exams :-$

[iCeCuBEz v2]

why are you taking AP Biology and AP Chemistry at the same time? good luck bro

yea I have AP chemistry also, already had AP US that **** was gay as hell there was one DBQ where I was like ok what the **** are they talking about.

[hi19hi19]

Originally Posted by tsugomaru

Relambrien, my school offers just about all the AP subjects except for the two I want to take, Computer Science. I'm going to self study Computer Science next year and take A instead of AB. I've heard terror stories about the AB test and I'm pretty afraid of it.

~Tsugomaru

I took AB this year after not studying hardly at all, and after taking a class with a pretty bad teacher. The test was easy. If you really like Comp Sci, go for AB, it's much harder but still very easy.

There was a lot of crap this year with HashMaps of TreeMaps of HashTables with Strings in them... like seriously what the ****
Also there were like 5 questions out of 40 involving Big O values comparing LinkedList and ArrayList, there was even a whole effing free response question on that topic! Damn good thing I studied that, one of the few things I did review. Oddly I feel as though I got a 5, haha

EDIT- Also, owned the APUS DBQ in the face (eat it Vietnam war!) but the other two essays were really bad. Might have gotten a 5, most likely a 4.

[sumzup]

Originally Posted by iCeCuBEz v2

why are you taking AP Biology and AP Chemistry at the same time? good luck bro

yea I have AP chemistry also, already had AP US that **** was gay as hell there was one DBQ where I was like ok what the **** are they talking about.

I do this dual-enrollment thing at my local university; I finished both the Bio and Chem sequences this year, so I'm taking both AP tests. Next year I'll do Physics.

[sumzup]

Someone give me superpowers. I have AP chem in 1.5 hours and I'm screwed.

[Kamunt]

Originally Posted by psychopete

So, Music Theory was today. Holy crap, the melodic dictation and sight-singing decimated me. ;-; Good thing sight-singing isn't worth that much, and I'm semi-confident about everything else.

Dude, it was the non-aural multiple choice that killed me. The songs were so freaking hard, it was ridiculous!! D: Like seriously!

[Xception704]

Originally Posted by iCeCuBEz v2

why are you taking AP Biology and AP Chemistry at the same time? good luck bro

yea I have AP chemistry also, already had AP US that **** was gay as hell there was one DBQ where I was like ok what the **** are they talking about.

Yeah no **** ... ****ing Vietnam War + other **** like Market economy in certain areas ... ugh **** that.


AP Chem was hard ... got owned by the multiple choice section (skipped 10+), then got ass-raped by the free-response.

K2O + H2O --> 2K+ + 2OH-

... right? Please tell me I'm right.

And what would happen if you add phenolphthalein indicator ... color change as the solution increases in basicity?


... also taking AP English Language tomorrow ... going to own the **** out of that though.

[iCeCuBEz v2]

Don't even want to talk about it, I got wrecked by that exam

still probably got a 3 though w/e that's all I want

[tsugomaru]

I can't say I "like" Computer Science because I've never actually taken a course in it and I have just about no idea what it is. I'm not going to take AB because several friends I know who know way more about computers than I do self-studied it this year, took it, and then walked out of it confused.

~Tsugomaru

[FRO]

for all you deciding whether to take ap psych next year:


you need 93/150 to get a 5 on the ap exam, with 100 points coming from MC and 50 from free-response

guaranteed 5 if you take it; just read a princeton review the night before

haha oh the irony if i don't get a 5

[sumzup]

Originally Posted by Xception704

AP Chem was hard ... got owned by the multiple choice section (skipped 10+), then got ass-raped by the free-response.

K2O + H2O --> 2K+ + 2OH-

... right? Please tell me I'm right.

And what would happen if you add phenolphthalein indicator ... color change as the solution increases in basicity?

I think it was --> 2K+ + H+ + OH- + O^(2-)

and that phenolphthalein would be pink due to equimolar amounts of acid and base.

But yeah, I could be totally wrong on that. I raped the multiple choice section, though...didn't have nearly enough time on free-response, unfortunately.

Edit: If you're right FRO, then I'm totally doing it.

[Xaye]

Yeah the Fiscal and Monetary policy SA killed me. Meh. I Didn't much like the Lame-duck one either....

And the MC weren't far from being ridiculous, I think I passed though, but with a 3...

[indigo23]

THEY'RE ALL OVER.

It's such a relief; they were eating my life.

English Language today was surprisingly not so bad! The MC section seemed much easier than the practice exams I'd taken, and I didn't think any of the essays were hard!

AP US History, however, I'm not so optimistic about. I know I did a terrible job on both the free response questions, and I was pretty sketchy on the Vietnam DBQ. =/

[MrRubix]

AP's = lolollolol

[lord_carbo]

Originally Posted by psychopete

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE.[/altered beast this ****]

So, Music Theory was today. Holy crap, the melodic dictation and sight-singing decimated me. ;-; Good thing sight-singing isn't worth that much, and I'm semi-confident about everything else.

The melodic dictation was great. Everybody bitched about it but it was pretty easy to me... I guess just because I'm good at it in general. So I guess harder dictation = better for me. But yeah, the sight singing was a bitch. (I lost all of my flow points!) And I didn't finish the multiple choice. I was expecting an easy 5, but my expectations have dropped a lot because of not finishing the multiple choice and that hard sight singing. I'm still fairly certain that I'll get a 4, though.

[psychopete]

Originally Posted by Kamunt

Dude, it was the non-aural multiple choice that killed me. The songs were so freaking hard, it was ridiculous!! D: Like seriously!

I thought it was really easy. Although in one of the parts where you had to identify part-writing errors, they had parallel octaves, and that wasn't one of the choices. xD I guess I'm just better with analysis and part writing (I finished the part writing in like 10 or 15 minutes, lol).

Originally Posted by lord_carbo

The melodic dictation was great. Everybody bitched about it but it was pretty easy to me... I guess just because I'm good at it in general. So I guess harder dictation = better for me. But yeah, the sight singing was a bitch. (I lost all of my flow points!) And I didn't finish the multiple choice. I was expecting an easy 5, but my expectations have dropped a lot because of not finishing the multiple choice and that hard sight singing. I'm still fairly certain that I'll get a 4, though.

The melodic dictation was just a bitch for me. ): Also, for the sight-singing, everyone else had time to warm up beforehand, since I was the one who had to do it first, before lunch, aka before everyone had time to warm up with a piano. >.>

I'm normally good at melodic dictation, but the second one...that singing was too high for me to identify anything. Harmonic dictation, I'll admit, the only thing I ran out of time to do was fill some of the chords. xD

Really, though, I just don't think I did that well. ): Oh well, I'll be taking many theory courses soon enough, hah, and it's not like I completely bombed. I skipped what I felt like I had to skip and didn't finish some of the melodic dictation/the chords of the harmonic dictation, but I feel rather confident about everything else besides sight-singing. A 3, probably, knowing my luck. xD

[lord_carbo]

Originally Posted by psychopete

I thought it was really easy. Although in one of the parts where you had to identify part-writing errors, they had parallel octaves, and that wasn't one of the choices. xD I guess I'm just better with analysis and part writing (I finished the part writing in like 10 or 15 minutes, lol).

Maybe you were seeing things? :/

Originally Posted by psychopete

Also, for the sight-singing, everyone else had time to warm up beforehand, since I was the one who had to do it first, before lunch, aka before everyone had time to warm up with a piano. >.>

Well that sucks. I had brought my guitar along to play my minor and major scales and arpeggios before the test, but apparently that didn't help at all. But I'm pretty happy that seemingly few did well on that, which means that doesn't set me far off from the average.

Originally Posted by psychopete

I'm normally good at melodic dictation, but the second one...that singing was too high for me to identify anything. Harmonic dictation, I'll admit, the only thing I ran out of time to do was fill some of the chords. xD

Aww cmon, I'm sure you could tell when the singer hit tonic (during the second measure I believe she did). And then you can just use your musical common sense to fill in the stuff like passing tones. In fact, that's exactly what I did while I did the other open-ended stuff. I had about ten to fifteen minutes left to doze off even after doing the written part plus my revisions to the dictation. We had so much time for the written open-ended; it was great.

[iCeCuBEz v2]

Originally Posted by MrRubix

AP's = lolollolol

Rubix's arrogance = lolollolol

[championanwar]

Originally Posted by MrRubix

AP's = lolollolol

Whats funny about them

[psychopete]

Originally Posted by lord_carbo

Maybe you were seeing things? :/

Nope, everyone in my theory class also caught it. Oh well, there was a more egregious error that had a selection, anyways. =P

Originally Posted by lord_carbo

Well that sucks. I had brought my guitar along to play my minor and major scales and arpeggios before the test, but apparently that didn't help at all. But I'm pretty happy that seemingly few did well on that, which means that doesn't set me far off from the average.

If I had not had gone first, I could've skipped my lunch period to warm up my voice. Oh well. It's not like this is my last time taking Theory, since most places don't offer credit for AP (that and I plan to major in theory/composition).

Originally Posted by lord_carbo

Aww cmon, I'm sure you could tell when the singer hit tonic (during the second measure I believe she did). And then you can just use your musical common sense to fill in the stuff like passing tones. In fact, that's exactly what I did while I did the other open-ended stuff. I had about ten to fifteen minutes left to doze off even after doing the written part plus my revisions to the dictation. We had so much time for the written open-ended; it was great.

That's what I did, but I still hated how high it was. xD And still, the part writing was so easy, in my eyes. I did the bass composition in no more than five minutes, they suggested way too much time (of course, fixing everything else that I felt like I could fix without aural stimulus on the dictation took up almost all of my time). Either that or I spent too much time doing practice examples to work on speed prior to the test.

[Kamunt]

Originally Posted by tsugomaru

I can't say I "like" Computer Science because I've never actually taken a course in it and I have just about no idea what it is. I'm not going to take AB because several friends I know who know way more about computers than I do self-studied it this year, took it, and then walked out of it confused.

Well, it's the science of computers.

...Not fooled? Good. AP Computer science is all about the Java programming language, an object-oriented programming language.
http://java.sun.com/
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/....html?compscia
You can PM, comment or IM me sometime if you want to know more about it. It's fun stuff, but if you don't like thinking logically, you aren't going to have fun learning it. Computer science is pretty much all logic, heh. Oh...and you might wanna get this program, as well. It's easier to learn than NetBeans and is a lot less retarded than TextPad.

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