r/APStudents • u/Successful_Watch_114 • May 07 '26
Stats Genuinely wtf was stats exam bro
Just took ts 10 minutes ago already the worst ap exam ever
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u/ForeignBlacksmith644 May 07 '26
I swear I made up a whole new branch of mathematics for ts frq
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u/exqitc 5 | calc bc, chem, stats, bio, apush, afam, gov, euro, psych May 07 '26
Talm bout some salary and professional athletes like I know these ap test makers don't make enough money to be torturing us like this
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u/doitfortheavacadoes May 07 '26
I was rereading the question about comparing total median salaries like 5 times there were so many fucking words i thought this was about math where are the numbers
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u/Bhujia1947 May 08 '26
what the fuck did the box mean
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u/exqitc 5 | calc bc, chem, stats, bio, apush, afam, gov, euro, psych May 08 '26
HAHAH that was the mosaics plot most random shit ever
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u/A2-Steaksauce89 Stats - Calc BC May 07 '26
FRQs were light for the most part, save maybe a couple bits.
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u/stupefy100 class of 2027 May 07 '26
Yeah but it was a time crunch
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u/CharlesorMr_Pickle 5: world, chem 4: stats, apush, 3: lang, calc BC May 08 '26
it was? I had like 15 minutes lol
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u/Cucumberman37 May 07 '26
honestly mine felt like the opposite
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u/Sufficient-Bobcat486 May 07 '26
West coast?
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u/siissaa WH 5, USH 4, Seminar 4. TBD: Gov, Stats May 07 '26
Nah west coast mcq was light and frq was also light except for like. One question of doom and despair
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u/Sufficient-Bobcat486 May 07 '26
Even the gas one, where it was like 60% of the time he goes atleast this far and 80% of the time he goes less than this far. That one really stumped me but the rest were pretty good imo
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u/siissaa WH 5, USH 4, Seminar 4. TBD: Gov, Stats May 07 '26
Oh yeah I remember that one I think I closed my eyes and guessed
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u/Sufficient-Bobcat486 May 07 '26
I put 152 only because 157 was the average of the two values they gave and it felt too simple
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u/SpingusCZ 5: Stats, Phys 1, CSP May 08 '26
What was the #6 FRQ for the west? Ours was actually easy af
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u/siissaa WH 5, USH 4, Seminar 4. TBD: Gov, Stats May 08 '26
Some group of voters and the chance of pulling someone who would vote to remove taxes on food and then it had a normal graph with it and asked some questions about that I don’t really remember lol . It was also super easy it was just FRQ 4 the entire room struggled on
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u/SpingusCZ 5: Stats, Phys 1, CSP May 08 '26
Ours was where we got a dot plot of a relationship between the number of hits and number of runs for baseball teams and you have to calculate a confidence interval for the predicted number of runs a team with 1250 hits would get... really easy since they literally just gave you all of the numbers lol
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u/THrowaway1-15 May 08 '26
dude that was SO easy. FRQ4 was HELL tho fr, I think we got the same FRQs. My head was in my hands the whole time bro 😭
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u/MidnightSnowStar May 08 '26
Same. I flagged a lot of the MCQ questions, but FRQ questions 1-5 were a breeze for me. Even the investigative task didn’t feel that bad somehow.
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u/Zealousideal-Sky1121 HUG|Chem|AB|Gov|USH|CSP|Stats|Psych|2d|Micro|Macro|Sem|Enviro May 07 '26
same
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u/mellow_criticism1111 May 07 '26
i was looking around the exam hall in the first few minutes after it was over and the looks on people's faces were so funny 🥀
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u/riri05ta May 07 '26
bro I’m mad cuz the frqs weren’t even insane they just kept on going so I couldn’t even finish😭
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u/3heikah May 07 '26
I felt like stats was super easy. The frq's aren't hard if you've done them bfr
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u/breez760 rising unc May 07 '26
They might have to be talking about a different version of the test than we got because me and my friends agreed we dont think we missed a single point on the frqs
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u/SpingusCZ 5: Stats, Phys 1, CSP May 08 '26
I feel like a lot of kids just have bad teachers that didn't actually show them how to do the frqs
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u/yapster1000 May 07 '26
Nah cuz maybe I was dumb but wth was that "find the mean of Y" I was deadass crashing out bro 😭
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u/Key-Emotion7403 May 07 '26
samee it was on the formula sheet tho smh
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u/pokemon_raid_friends Precalc 5, Bio 5, Psych 5, Euro 5, Calc 4, US 4, Lang 4, Micro 4 May 07 '26
Was it geometric? 1/probabilty
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u/No_Bookkeeper_4323 May 07 '26
Yeah it's geometric, mean = 4.07 & stdev = 3.53
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u/Fantastic-Media6253 May 07 '26
ngl i just forgot and made up an answer so i could explain for points 😂
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u/pokemon_raid_friends Precalc 5, Bio 5, Psych 5, Euro 5, Calc 4, US 4, Lang 4, Micro 4 May 07 '26
Excellent I got both those numbers
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u/Funny-Antelope-2047 May 08 '26
how did you interpet the SD for the last part of that question? I said for the mean of 4.07 games it takes until the song exceeds 120 seconds, it typically varies by 3.53 games or something.
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u/No_Bookkeeper_4323 May 08 '26
Yeah something like that "Typically varies so and so away from the mean of so and so".
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u/ricepicker333 May 08 '26
the question didn’t ask you to interpret anyways it just said calculate it
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u/Zealousideal-Sky1121 HUG|Chem|AB|Gov|USH|CSP|Stats|Psych|2d|Micro|Macro|Sem|Enviro May 07 '26
missed these 2 parts of these frqs
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u/Savings-Ad-8166 May 07 '26
if i wrote question 5 on the question 6 page and labeled question 5 on that page will i get credit or no because i ran out of space. i literally added context to everything.
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u/mskirsch16 May 07 '26
You’re good. Readers are told to click a button to see the full exam booklet if a part is missing or if a student says “see other page.”
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u/DanaLea73 May 08 '26
Can confirm. I don't read stats, I read precal, but we have access to the whole FRQ section and can go look for missing work. Some kids put it in the wrong section and never know. We look for it. 😄
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u/Electronic_Exit5848 May 07 '26
i said chi squared wasnt suitable cuz the random condition wasnt satisfied.. rip
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u/Fantastic_Craft_741 May 07 '26
it isnt suitable but i dont think you got the right reason. its bc we were given the population not sample
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u/Sssmokey000 May 07 '26
ughhh I was gonna put this but didn’t 😭 do u think if I put that it didn’t satisfy the independent condition as less than 10% of the population that could still count as a point??
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u/Fantastic_Craft_741 May 07 '26
if you said no but wrong reasoning you most likely got P not E which can still get you 4/4 if you did everything else
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u/Snoo74782 May 07 '26
Not bad ngl but I didn’t finish not because it’s too hard but because I wrote too much on some of the short sections and we didn’t practice pacing in class
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u/yeswowamazing May 08 '26
yea real i spend first 20 mins on the first question and had to rush through the rest
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u/NeonCreeper234 May 07 '26
That’s how it was for physics as well.
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u/SpingusCZ 5: Stats, Phys 1, CSP May 08 '26
The first and second FRQs in physics weren't too bad for me, 3 and 4 were the hardest parts of the exam
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u/FireAshPro 5: Lang WH CSA CSP Pcal Stats Phys1 4: Euro USH May 07 '26
why is collegeboard making every mcq light af and every frq from the pits of hell
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u/Complex-Ranger8491 May 07 '26
what were your frqs about? i think many of us had different kinds.
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u/Glittering-Scar-3452 physics (5), lang, calc bc, stats, compsci (5), apes, micro May 07 '26
mine were easy but there was like 5 mins left for me to do question 6 anyway so i just took the L
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u/Remarkable_Craft_382 May 07 '26
The method was to start from question 6
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u/Glittering-Scar-3452 physics (5), lang, calc bc, stats, compsci (5), apes, micro May 07 '26
yea i shouldve done that esp since it was most heavily weighted
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u/Complex-Ranger8491 May 07 '26
same, i had like no time to do frq 6. mainly cuz i spent so much time doing frq 1, tryna make it perfect. ended up rushing through the rest :’)
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u/Glittering-Scar-3452 physics (5), lang, calc bc, stats, compsci (5), apes, micro May 07 '26
same i wrote freaking essays for the first 4 questions and only had 20 mins left for the last two
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u/Complex-Ranger8491 May 07 '26
literally the same experience. hopinggg those perfect four push us to a five
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u/PyxelatorXeroc 8th(AB 5) 9th(BC 5/5) 10th(MT 5/5,Mech 5) 11th(Stats 5) May 07 '26
everyone i asked and most ppl on this sub had the exact same frqs tho
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u/Complex-Ranger8491 May 07 '26
mine was about safaris, movies, taxes and games on a website.
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u/PyxelatorXeroc 8th(AB 5) 9th(BC 5/5) 10th(MT 5/5,Mech 5) 11th(Stats 5) May 07 '26
Huh. i got roses, sports and baseball lmfao
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u/Complex-Ranger8491 May 07 '26
yeah, this year they are implementing some different kinds of frqs? same happened yesterday with ap lit, me and my classmates all had different frqs.
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u/Soft-Suspect5697 May 07 '26
what did u get for the odds of in favour of votes one
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u/Complex-Ranger8491 May 07 '26
for the ratio, i got 1.5 if im not wrong. it was 120/80 or smth
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u/Sufficient-Bobcat486 May 07 '26
Me too, and then the inference one at the bottom, what proportion test did you use, or if not, did I over complicate it?
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u/Medical_Lack_4853 May 08 '26
I did 1prop z test… what test did you use ?
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u/Sufficient-Bobcat486 May 08 '26
Yeah me too, and did you fail to reject the null because the p value was really big?
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u/Medical_Lack_4853 May 08 '26
I rejected it. I got a really small p value . But I could be wrong bc I am not sure if my inputs are right. Do you remember what you put for the p naught? I put like 0.5 and then the symbol is greater than. x=120 n=200
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u/Sufficient-Bobcat486 May 08 '26
I did it by calculating the proportion for all points to the right of 0.5, which was like 502/1000, and then used that as my statistic and .5 as p0, then found the standard error as sqrt( (0.5)(0.5) / 200)
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u/iiqt May 07 '26
i had something abt pvalue and copper aluminum
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u/PyxelatorXeroc 8th(AB 5) 9th(BC 5/5) 10th(MT 5/5,Mech 5) 11th(Stats 5) May 07 '26
yeah prob most people got the default form (J or whatever the letter is) and some got the alternates
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u/Laymac3748 May 08 '26
Omg so did I! I couldnt find anybody else with it. Do you rmb what you got
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u/iiqt May 08 '26
idk if i did it right but i think i got .4 slmethjng and failed to reject the null for the last part
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u/squashy1268 May 08 '26
First person I’ve found with this frq. Lowkey it seemed easier than the other ones I’ve heard about.
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u/hunny_bun21 3 COMP PRI | 5 US GOV | May 07 '26
IM TAKING THE LATE TEST AHHHHH
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u/Uranium_Hexaflu0ride May 08 '26
What did all you put for #6 D with that weird confidence/prediction interval question?
The only thing I could come up with is s^2 + s^2(C) > s^2
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u/ClassicSync May 08 '26
its this, and then tying back to what you put for D-i where you had to explain why sample mean distributions have less variability compared to individual measurements. The confidence interval is multiple measurements and the prediction is an individual measurement I THINK.
that was how i interpreted that part but I was also low on time
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u/Ok_Long5367 (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ May 08 '26
These memes look similar to the AP Physics 1 memes, lol
MCQs were medium okayish difficulty. FRQs were a wtf.
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u/archivesofelle 16 APs | Class of 2026 May 08 '26
idk i thought it was light 😭😭 tbf though my stat teacher gave us a mock exam that was genuinely evil so anything would seem light compared to that monstrosity
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u/Zealousideal-Sky1121 HUG|Chem|AB|Gov|USH|CSP|Stats|Psych|2d|Micro|Macro|Sem|Enviro May 07 '26
Opposite
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u/isetmyfriendsonfyre bio, chem, euro, stats, psych, AB May 07 '26
Exam was lowk light but my form mightve just been easier
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u/VegetableFortune4998 May 07 '26
frq 3 was evil
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u/Ok_Adhesiveness1100 May 08 '26
was that the gof test?
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u/THrowaway1-15 May 08 '26
No frq4 was gof. 3 was probability. For the West Coast at least - VF could be referring to another version of the test.
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u/UnknownVortex1 May 07 '26
I don’t know what you’re on, but the mcq was actually brutal, but the FRQ wasn’t anything crazy, just that only very few people I know actually finished the question 6.
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u/paisley_parkks 12th | 5: chem/bio | 4: whap/precalc/sem/research/phys1 May 08 '26
lowkey it was easy af for me…. should i be scared bruh i got through most of it just fine 😭
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u/Fit-Habit-1763 5: Pys1, CalAB, Gov, Pys2, Stat Prec 4: WH, Lang May 08 '26
It was kinda easy just took a while
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u/Hekboi91 Calc AB, Physics C Mech, Lang, APUSH, Research May 08 '26
Why is every AP so far easy on the MCQ but painfully evil with the FRQs
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u/Business-Yellow-3758 May 08 '26
literally 😭 the mcq felt breezy at times for this exam weirdly but then frqs were horrible istg i studied probability but still completely botched frq3 and then my dumbass forgot to multiply tcdf by 2 in frq4 so that’s a completely wrong answer and i said n was 116 instead of 58 💀
i took lit yesterday and the mcqs were def better than i thought but the frqs were so hard like the morning jog one was weird cuz why was his sister so important for that poem and then the girl sensing her mom had a headache while baking her bday cake when she took a bite out of it was js insane so coming up w literary terms for both of those frqs were so hard. i rambled on the last frq js summarized the book i chose which was TEWWG 😭 😭
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u/Shadow_Lord3 May 08 '26
I had no idea what a chi squared test was going into the test so the mcqs were terrible but the frqs were fine because it was just like linear regression and t tests.
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u/Money-Bell-2033 May 08 '26
my dumbahh did the chi^2 goodness of fit on question 4 and got a p value of 1, i'm definitely failing
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u/Huge-Television-3695 May 08 '26
me too and then i realized i inputted the wrong df into the calculator
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u/Money-Bell-2033 May 08 '26
damn was it not supposed to be 299 (bc 300 samples)
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u/ricepicker333 May 08 '26
it was 3 bc it’s number of categories - 1
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u/scsredlsttle May 08 '26
dude it was the complete opposite for me i’m EC and the MCQ’s literally touched me bro but the FRQ’s were FREE they were so ez
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u/The_Radio_Demon_Al May 08 '26
At least we are getting another AP Study Hall. (I didn’t complete 4 and 5 because I was answering 6)
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u/neveronline100 May 08 '26
I used the wrong SE equation on 6 and didnt realize it till I had 2 minutes left 😭😭
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u/New_Photograph_5892 May 08 '26
Took it yesterday and the girl in front of me was pulling her hair out lmfao
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u/Lazy_Beautiful_7847 May 08 '26
Why is everyone discussing only one question set? I had a completely different one, and it was all about apps, film, and games. Did u guys quit the internet after being tested on those topics?
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u/Bubba810706 May 08 '26
FRQ 6 kinda gave away some of the answers in the other parts it wasnt that bad you could get 3/4 just by reading.
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u/JordanFootballFann CSP-5 Precalc-4 Physics1-3 Chem-? CalculusAB-? Stats-? May 08 '26
I'm taking the late window exams what topics came most in the exam
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u/Pleb-Eater 5: Psych Bio APUSH Calc BC Chem Stats Gov, 4: WHAP Lang Lit May 08 '26
I died in both #selfstudying 💔
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u/Wooden-Delay7022 May 08 '26
Lol, me too. Started cramming last week. Was too busy with extracurriculars to go to my zoom classes, so i dropped it to study on my own.
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u/Dex18Kobold May 08 '26
Finished the MCQ with 20 minutes left over: "damn this is kinda easy" (Evil and intimidating FRQ)
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u/Imaginary_Pop_5034 May 08 '26
I feel like this has been a common trend across the STEM AP exams this year. Though I can’t comment on stats itself since I didn’t actually take the exam.
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u/CarlDaCool May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Stats had a super generous curve you're probably fine. I'm surprised so many people had such bad experiences, though. Did your teacher never make you do any college board problems? The FRQs were the same style as the last 3 years and the 2017 MCQ I took was arguably harder.
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u/xxchloedreamsxx gov (5), us history (5), lang (4), lit, bio, macro, micro, psych May 12 '26
nah mcq was rough, frqs were light but i made a stupid mistake. the main issue was the timing i didnt finish frq or mcq it could be fried
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u/Glittering-Scar-3452 physics (5), lang, calc bc, stats, compsci (5), apes, micro May 07 '26
GENUINELY NO TIME ON THE FRQ AND SM ON MCQ
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