skool: post-APUSH exam

after all the testing, i finally had time to catch up on my magazine giveaways (redbook is still up w. conair products!!) XD

testing was fine thank you.

MC wasn't that bad, but last minute i herd from sarah that i shouldn't leave more than 4 questions blank. nice. when last night, instead of cramming, i just did practice test after test, and i always left 24 out of 80 questions blank. good job.

so that's what i did. i in the end left 3 questions blank.

maybe that was a bad move... i dunno... the essays were sorta easy....

the DBQ and FRQ wasn't that hard, but i didnt do that well w. analyzing... i know for sure that i didn't have a 1:1 ratio of documents and outside info... TT_TT

they have a mandatory 15 min. reading period, but that wouldn't really have been enforced...

but yea. after the 15 min, i was still planning, so i was already lagging. when i was finishing up on the DBQ section, the counselors called suggested time, so i SHOULD move onto the next section (FRQ1), but i didn't (i wanted 2 fin my conclusion--i overheard that they auto dedcuct points for absence of a conclusion), and i got my timing completely messed up.

i thought that essay section would be completely over soon, and they wouldn't call the individual times  for when we should be done w/ FRQ 1 and FRQ2 (even though they said they would), so when i was halfway done w. FRQ2 (i skipped the conclusion to FRQ1 thinking i didn't have enough time for it), time was called for FRQ1, so i was WAY ahead. oops. so i went back, added a conclusion 4 FRQ1.

so in the end, i had time to go back and proofread.

it was sad though. i didn't get through proofreading my entire DBQ before time was called.

there werent THAT many questions w. graphs/images on it... BARRON completely over-exaggerates on that part. their entire practice book was just graph after graph after graph.

SWEARING..................................................................

so. apparently AP is even more strict and anal then i thought. before every test section, they make you sign a contract saying that you will not talk about the MC questions, or essay prompts to anyone, including your teachers and classmates. bogus! or else you would "risk cancelation of your AP score".

but i guess they like to keep stuff like that locked up.

we still talked. no one cared.

Mr. Hughes, one of the counselors, was the prompter. and they also had a College Board rep there.

we took it @ NEIU, in a lecture hall, so there were no individual desks (spacing!)

and the steps could kill if you weren't looking where you're going. i was seriously scared. they were spaced so awkwardly.

and we took like 5 whole min. re-arranging the seats b/c of left-handed ppl. lol.

i only herd about that a few days b4 the test. they even monitor stuff like that! so if you're a leftie, you have to be specially placed. and they chose to tell us that after we were seated. nice.

just like how they afterwards told us to move ourselves b/c we were too close.

and mr. H messed up every 2 min. reading a prompt. like, "oh. wait. wrong date."

i had 2 ask my grandpa 4 a watch, and he let me borrow it (it has roman numerals!! i can't read them as easily!!)

but i turns out i didn't need it. the digital clock was clearly visible even from the last, tallest, farthest row where i sat.

and i herd from searcy that eating bananas and hard candy will help. so i ate hard candy. right when were sat down. but we took 4ever, so by the time we actually started, my piece of candy had long melted away, and i didn't want 2 eat another b/c i didn't want to get a sugar rush then crash.

i can safely say that testing security is pretty loose... you're testing with your classmates, in a HUGE lecture hall with like, 6 counselors.

towards the end, some students would keep trying to open the locked lecture hall doors (@ first i thought they didn't know that today the hall was being used by us 4 testing, but i found out later that there was another AP test there)

it was a bit destracting, but i was done that time.

when we were done, everyone jumped for joy, but it's still not sinking in yet. maybe it will when we don't have any hmwk on tuesday. maybe. i'm sad it hasn't sunk in yet.

i want to feel the happiness that everyone else does. but maybe that's hard to do so when i had a tooth knocked loose.