and speaking of confusion with a K...

Here is how you will be graded on the AP exam:

Section 1: Multiple-Choice (60 minutes—accounts for 45% of total score). Five or six reading passages, with an average of 10 questions each.

Section 2: Free-Response (120 minutes—accounts for 55% of total score). Three essays of approximately 40 minutes each.

The multiple-choice section of the exam is scored by crediting each correct answer with one point and deducting one-fourth of a point for each incorrect answer. Unanswered questions receive neither a credit nor a deduction.

The free-response essays are graded by more than 1,500 readers who gather each June for a week of nonstop AP essay grading, yahoo. Each essay booklet is read and scored by four readers. Each reader provides a score between 0 and 9 for the individual essays. The readers are not aware of each other’s scores. When the essays have been graded four times, the scores are averaged for each of the three essays.

Depending on the number of multiple-choice questions, the Essay score is multiplied by approximately 3.3 to 3.8, depending on the number of multiple choice questions. This is called the Weighted Essay score.

The Multiple-Choice score counts approximately 60 points, and the Weighted Essay counts approximately 90 points, to make a total of 150 points. The scores are combined.

Using this formula, you can approximate your grade as follows:

A perfect 5 for 2001's AP tests received a score between 108 and 150
4: 93 to 107
3: 72 to 92
2: 43 to 71
1: 0 to 42

Keep in mind that if you got 108 of 150 on one of my tests, you receive a C at best, so that's good news.

Example: You get a 5, a 6 and a 7 on your essays. Multiply the total by 3.5 and you get 63. If you then got merely 9 points on the multiple choice section, you'd get a college credit or passing score or 3. Get the half right that we shoot for and you'll get a 4!

So don't get nutty, this is SO doable!

I hope you all enjoyed Something Corporate without me, by the way.