Friday, January 15, 2010

AP Exam Questions and Answers

Please post your question and your answer here. Remember, you need to know these for Tuesday's quiz, so the sooner you post, the better!

13 comments:

Mrs. Moon said...

What was the mean score (nation wide) for the AP Lit exam in 2009?

2.94

Mrs. Moon said...

What was the open-ended essay prompt for the 2009 exam?

Select a novel or play and , focusing on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole.

Confucious said...

QUESTION: How many NC students took the AP Lit exam in 2009? What percent change is that from the 2008 exam?

ANSWER: Aight, 47,576 students took the AP exam in 2009, up by 4.1% in 2008.

sarah said...

What score must be achieved on the AP lit exam in order to get college credit at the following schools.

UNC-Chapel Hill: 5
UNC-Wilmington: 3
UNC-Charlotte: 4
Meredith: 4
NC-State: 5

Madison said...

Question: What percentage of students, nationwide, who took the 2009 AP Lit exam recieved a score of 5? A score of 4?

May of 2009 results:
Students recieving 5: 7.4%
Students recieving 4: 20.5%

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap09_EnglishLit_GradeDistributions.pdf

Kathryn said...

OK... REALLY CONFUSED>>> EXPLAIN PLEASE!

Mel said...

Question: Who is the chief reader for the AP Lit. exam? At what university does she teach?

Susan Strehle; SUNY-The State University of New York

And Lauren's computer is broken so this is hers:

Question: What was the mean score for all NC students taking the AP Lit. exam in 2009?

2.67

Taylor said...

How many US students took the AP
Lit exam in 2009? How many Canadian students?

American: 352,332
Canadian: I've been looking for over an hour. I'll keep looking and try and post it tonight.

Mrs. Moon said...

Taylor, I thought it was pretty easy to find, but maybe I was thinking about something else. If you can't find the Canadian numbers, don't worry!

Taylor said...

Freakin stupid. 21,451.

Taylor said...

It's stupid...not you Mrs. Moon. It was hiding from me.

Taylor said...

And Julian's account won't let him on so here's his...

What college received the most AP scores in 2009? Where did Chapel Hill rank?

First: University of Texas at Austin

Chapel hill ranked tenth.

Brittany said...

Question: What piece of literature has been used the most on the open-ended essay question? what piece of work has been used the 2nd most on the exam?

First: Invisable Man by Ralph Ellison
Second: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte