Screwing With AP exam readers

On April 03 2010 15:16 Tyrio wrote:
I am the bone of my sword
Steel is my body, and fire is my blood
I have created over a thousand blades
Unknown to death
Nor known to life
Have withstood pain to create many weapons
Yet those hands will never hold anything
So as I pray
Unlimited Blade Works

On the back of my Psychology AP Essay.

On April 03 2010 15:16 Tyrio wrote:
I am the bone of my sword
Steel is my body, and fire is my blood
I have created over a thousand blades
Unknown to death
Nor known to life
Have withstood pain to create many weapons
Yet those hands will never hold anything
So as I pray
Unlimited Blade Works

On the back of my Psychology AP Essay.

On April 03 2010 15:11 Vestige wrote:
So anyone who has taken an AP exam before has probably heard about how if you make a clean line through whatever you have written it wont be considered in part of your grade, but people can still read it. Started my freshman year that people started doing this on purpose. 1st year it was "THIS IS SPARTA!", then came "Why so serious?", This year's is "Yo, im real happy for you, and imma let you finish, but". So have any of you TLer's ever taken partin this? what was your best line. What are you going to write this year?

On April 03 2010 15:49 Saugardas wrote:
I am taking my first AP exam this year. I cannot wait to do this.

On April 03 2010 16:30 Chen wrote:

unless you are a senior or extremely certain you will get a 5 its not worth it...

On April 03 2010 16:44 Saugardas wrote:

T_T Freshman here...Waste of 80 bux since I am certain I will not get a 5?

On April 03 2010 18:39 General Nuke Em wrote:
I'm pretty chill with my old AP US history teacher; since graduating from high school I've made a point to visit him whenever I'm in town. Last summer he showed me some choice answers that him and his fellow graders of the AP tests found in the essay sections of the AP US exams.

• It was too late to repair the irreparable.
  
• African Americans fell off the racial inequality ladder
  
• Japanese Americans were usually of Japanese descent.
  
• The Japanese were sent to reservations. The Indians did not like this.
  
• According to one poll, Jews were the 2d most annoying race in the US, right behind the Italians.
  
• The Mexican Americans didn’t have it as bad as they were far away and they were dealing with Cuba’s missiles.
  
• The shape of Japanese eyes inhibited them from seeing very clearly during the war.
  
• I have swine flu.
  
• Domestic factors during the 2d World War were often overshadowed by the emergence of rock and roll and cool cars.
  
• During WWII, many got the chance to experience the experience.
  
• Executive Order 90210.
  
• As documents A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J demonstrate, slavery was prominent in America.
  

On April 03 2010 19:11 haaduken wrote:
One of my friends knew he was going to fail the test, so he drew a picture by taping his pubic hair to the page. I forget what the picture was of, but I think it was a crude stick figure.

He got a 1.

On April 03 2010 19:06 -ty[r]ant wrote:


I totally wrote something exactly like that for my essay question on APUSH, it was something along the lines of pick 2 of the following 5 descents and write about their trials during WW2. I picked Jews and Japanese, and wrote that many Japanese felt prejudiced against because they could not see as well as other immigrants, and thus had more limited job opportunies as well as struggling in warfare.

On April 03 2010 19:27 Jugan wrote:
On my AP US History exam essay I wrote "penis" on every other word and crossed it out. I got a 5 on my exam (the only person in my class), and I felt I wrote really good essays... and only one person got a 9 on all three essays (in the class), so I assumed my penis essays won the day for me

edit: This was for the '07 examinations.

On April 03 2010 20:45 sc4k wrote:


Freud would have a lot to say about you, I fear

On April 03 2010 20:27 Elite00fm wrote:
Hey guys I heard it was cool to make someone's job harder because you're a pathetic nerd desperately looking for some way to be a "badass rebel" for a day and then be able to tell your equally nerdy friends how much of badass you were for the next 6 years because you wrote some curse words on a piece of paper without getting in trouble.

I hope that everyone who does crap like this gets their graders angry at them and get spite-failed, despite having correct answers.

On April 03 2010 20:27 Elite00fm wrote:
Hey guys I heard it was cool to make someone's job harder because you're a pathetic nerd desperately looking for some way to be a "badass rebel" for a day and then be able to tell your equally nerdy friends how much of badass you were for the next 6 years because you wrote some curse words on a piece of paper without getting in trouble.

I hope that everyone who does crap like this gets their graders angry at them and get spite-failed, despite having correct answers.

On April 03 2010 16:30 Chen wrote:
unless you are a senior or extremely certain you will get a 5 its not worth it...

On April 04 2010 00:23 Liquid`NonY wrote:
People saying this is a feeble way to be a rebel or a badass are revealing something about themselves...

This is actually just a joke.

On April 03 2010 20:27 Elite00fm wrote:
Hey guys I heard it was cool to make someone's job harder because you're a pathetic nerd desperately looking for some way to be a "badass rebel" for a day and then be able to tell your equally nerdy friends how much of badass you were for the next 6 years because you wrote some curse words on a piece of paper without getting in trouble.

I hope that everyone who does crap like this gets their graders angry at them and get spite-failed, despite having correct answers.

On April 04 2010 01:59 micronesia wrote:
To those of you defending this and saying it can be helpful to the graders... what evidence of this do you have? I've seen maybe one example given in this whole thread of an actual grader being spoken to. I don't grade standardized tests so I can't really say how they feel about this... but similar stuff drives me crazy when I grade regular things including state finals... it is generally not appreciated...

That's not to say you can't be entertaining in a creative way... I've had some very funny students who purposefully do something in a way that made me chuckle... but it didn't get in the way of me being able to effectively and efficiently grade their work quickly, and it didn't show a contempt for the system... which is fairly immature.

On April 03 2010 15:39 Wings wrote:
I was taking my US history AP after I had already gotten into my top-choice universities. My US History professor said that if I took the AP exam, I wouldn't have to take the school exam... and the AP exam obviously doesn't count towards my school grades. So I took the AP exam, and halfway through I got very bored and ended up using the bubble sheet to draw this.

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Afterwards...
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On April 03 2010 20:27 Elite00fm wrote:
Hey guys I heard it was cool to make someone's job harder because you're a pathetic nerd desperately looking for some way to be a "badass rebel" for a day and then be able to tell your equally nerdy friends how much of badass you were for the next 6 years because you wrote some curse words on a piece of paper without getting in trouble.

I hope that everyone who does crap like this gets their graders angry at them and get spite-failed, despite having correct answers.

"But as readers, we did adopt the Spartan spirit. In the Chief Reader’s last day speech, he encouraged 1100 teachers to grade the remaining hundred thousand essays by pumping his fist and shouting,
“This is Sparta!”

We cheered and cheered, and went to our tables that final day to grade the remaining tests, hurling them into a concrete pit of oblivion--or perhaps into a metal computer scanner.

A Facebook prank with the modest goal of bringing a chuckle to the reading turned into a rallying cry to complete the daunting task on hand. We hundreds of Spartan readers tackled a million swarming essays and, unlike Spartans at Thermopylae, remained standing."

On April 04 2010 01:41 Saugardas wrote:

A way to rebel against the system? More like a simple way to amuse ourselves and the readers.

On April 04 2010 03:26 Lyzon wrote:
What exactly is an AP exam? Is it the equivalent of the U.K.s alevels or gcses?

On April 04 2010 01:59 micronesia wrote:
To those of you defending this and saying it can be helpful to the graders... what evidence of this do you have?

On April 04 2010 03:48 Megalisk wrote:


It's a test which ATTEMPTS to tests your knowledge of a particular subject at the college level, if you score high enough you may be eligible for college credit in that subject.

On April 04 2010 05:23 ilistis wrote:
lmaoooooooooooooo. This has been one of the funniest threads in a long time. Ok I'm a junior taking two ap classes right now.

1.Ap Spanish(This should be easy seeing as how I'm hispanic but those accents are annoying. )
2.Ap Bio(I should pass this with at least a 3. I took bio honors last year anyway. -__-)

Does anybody have experience with any of these tests?How should I prepare for them?(One of those prep books I suppose?)

Back on topic:So this year, I might use: "I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish but grading my essay will be the best of all time

On April 04 2010 05:59 madnessman wrote:
I don't understand why seniors just draw pictures and sleep during their AP exams, and then end up getting a 1 or 2. You have to pay moniez to take these exams, and typically if you get a 4 or a 5 you can pass out of some intro level college classes (or even a 3 if the college is less strict), which is really nice and time-saving . In certain colleges it can also fulfill certain requirements, like if the college has a core curriculum.

On April 04 2010 02:57 Archaic wrote:

Wait.. you get a 2 on an exam, and you get into almost all ivies? I'm guessing that APUSH didn't reflect you as a student at all?

On April 04 2010 06:17 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
AP scores don't affect your admissions at basically any top school, it's only for credit AFTER you get in. Getting 10 5s doesn't really help your chances.

On April 04 2010 06:23 FiBsTeR wrote:


Not true. Many applications ask for an unofficial list of AP scores.

On April 03 2010 17:18 HeavOnEarth wrote:

lol i got a 3 on english, apush and some random american/us history class.
never had to take em in uni
WELL WORTH IT

On April 04 2010 07:13 Murderotica wrote:
I explained evolution by diagram, using the evolutionary adaptations of Squirtle -> Wartortle -> Blastoise.

On April 04 2010 06:27 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:


The Common App asks for it, many of the top schools don't look at it at all.

On April 04 2010 11:18 thedeadhaji wrote:
...why?

On April 04 2010 05:23 ilistis wrote:
lmaoooooooooooooo. This has been one of the funniest threads in a long time. Ok I'm a junior taking two ap classes right now.

1.Ap Spanish(This should be easy seeing as how I'm hispanic but those accents are annoying. )
2.Ap Bio(I should pass this with at least a 3. I took bio honors last year anyway. -__-)

Does anybody have experience with any of these tests?How should I prepare for them?(One of those prep books I suppose?)

Back on topic:So this year, I might use: "I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish but grading my essay will be the best of all time

On April 04 2010 08:11 RoosterSamurai wrote:

Was it accepted?

On April 04 2010 12:08 Judicator wrote:


Because I had extra time and I felt like dicking around on the tests that I could on, namely because of the inherent uselessness of the classes. English Lit. focuses on Western canon and ignore the rest of the world (thanks Bloom). Not to mention the inherent stupidity of grading someone's essay that is crammed into a time limit, with no/little revisions, and etc. When was the last time you wrote a good college paper under those conditions? Comp Sci was just easy and I had to do something to pass the time.

On April 04 2010 06:23 FiBsTeR wrote:


Not true. Many applications ask for an unofficial list of AP scores.

On April 04 2010 14:32 lightrise wrote:


WRONG Please know what your talking about before you post please. Your ap scores can not be considered in any way during your admission process. This is due to the fact that ap's are not available to every person and thus it would be an unfair way to asses students. Instead they only look at sat 2 scores. I scored 10 5's just so you know and not a single one was considered in my application process.

I agree for some more "enlightened" people screwing yourself out of possible credit is dumb, and now being in college i understand it more. But mostly as people pointed out its all for fun. It makes it entertaining especially if you have multiple tests. I know for a fact the graders love to read entertaining essays and not the same essay over and over. Doing most of theses doesn't negatively affect your score so why not? Its just a joke.

I did this and didnt sacrifice my grades at all. It allowed me to have fun on days where it was my second test or had extra time etc.

On April 04 2010 14:37 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:

From what I've heard, that's not correct either, most schools will look at the context of what you were able to take and whether or not you took/maximized your opportunities. If you did exceptionally in meh classes in an inner city school (as long as those classes were the highest level within the context of your school), then that's better than if you took only 1-2 APs in a rich-ass prep school. Therefore, taking the AP classes and getting good grades and exam scores is an affirmation of taking advantage of your opportunities. I'm fairly certain college admissions people actually look at that kind of thing, and I'd love for somebody working in the area to confirm/deny this (because I could be totally wrong, this is just what I've heard).

On April 04 2010 14:45 Kyuukyuu wrote:
these crossed out words make my overall essay seem a lot longer when i put them in every paragraph

On April 04 2010 14:47 lightrise wrote:
Also sorry if i sound like a jerk i really dont mean to come across like one. I am just bitter that this is not the case. I did exceptionally well on ap tests and didn't understand how getting 5's on almost every ap didn't matter, but your gpa includes super easy or classes that are not academic does. Also how getting a 5 on both calc exams doesn't override my 760 on math, or 700 on ap us history when i got a 5. A 5 demonstrates mastery in the course and the sat 2 is a bad multiple choice test. O well

On April 04 2010 15:14 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:

Which Ivy are you going to? 1/8 chance you're at my school xD (I go to Dartmouth)

And I'm not sure if I agree with the premise that if APs counted *at all*, you would've gotten into all the ivies... I mean I still believe that having 2s-3s on multiple APs can affect admissions decisions, especially when its part of the common application that officers see. Like obviously if you got As in the courses and glowing recommendations but still a 1 on the AP, the officers would realize that you probably dicked around and are still perfectly fine, but if 1-3 scores seem to be symptomatic of a larger problem, then I would expect it to be considered against a student. Sidenote: I think all the APs are pretty easy and getting 5s on them really shouldn't be a big deal if you learned the course material decently from a decent teacher (I had 8 APs, my only 4 was art history cuz I didn't read the textbook). I'd actually expect low AP scores to count more against you while high AP scores to be the norm, especially at top schools. For all the students who got into Stanford with unexceptional extracurriculars, you don't think every single one of them got all 5s?

On April 03 2010 15:34 Stripe wrote:


Should have written this instead.
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On April 04 2010 12:08 Judicator wrote:


Because I had extra time and I felt like dicking around on the tests that I could on, namely because of the inherent uselessness of the classes. English Lit. focuses on Western canon and ignore the rest of the world (thanks Bloom). Not to mention the inherent stupidity of grading someone's essay that is crammed into a time limit, with no/little revisions, and etc. When was the last time you wrote a good college paper under those conditions? Comp Sci was just easy and I had to do something to pass the time.

On April 04 2010 04:18 FiBsTeR wrote:

EDIT2: Wow i basically just copied dudeman's post, didn't see it before. T_T

On April 04 2010 05:59 madnessman wrote:
I don't understand why seniors just draw pictures and sleep during their AP exams, and then end up getting a 1 or 2.

On April 04 2010 14:44 lightrise wrote:
They cannot judge you based on what you got on your ap tests or i would be going to stanford or a different ivey, instead of only getting accepted into 1 ivey school. They grades are irrelivent for the application process. Getting a five might mean that you got an A which is what matters to them, or getting an 800 on the sat 2, but that five doesnt count for anything until you are accepted.

On May 04 2010 11:51 Chen wrote:
I know a guy who wrote a joke page about how he had an illicit affair with his teacher, doing stuff like professing love as a joke etc...
they took it seriously and suspended him =.=;;;

On May 04 2010 11:57 johnlee wrote:
I had to pay for all 6 of my exams ($540) :/

So I actually have an incentive to do well... along with possible credits for college next year.

On May 17 2012 10:31 apexamtaker wrote:
Ok so today i took AP English Language and composition an i didnt write the essays i wrote a continuous letter to the grader about how i wasnt going to pass the test anyway because of my racist teacher, then when on and on and on about how she is a horrible teacher and how shes could do better then at the end i drew a picture of me up against a wall getting raped by the test, i dont care about the score i recieve but im wondering if the college board will contact my school or parents about it? believe me im not trying to sound like a "badass" but the profanity i used was nothing compared to what ive seen on this thread, there were remarks about how the test wasnt using a condom while rapeing me and things of that nature
someone please respond on what will happen

On May 17 2012 10:37 Brutaxilos wrote:
Goddamnit, found this thread after finishing my last AP test. Whatever, next year ;P

On May 17 2012 10:47 Release wrote:
You guys who are screwing around are confident you got 5's?
I've always been one to be paranoid.

Wish i found this thread before i took my BC test though.

granted most ap exams are graded with a group of readers, so at least 10 or so people grade your paper. so there's almost no chance doing something like this could ever mess with your score. either way, i was paranoid too lol.

On April 03 2010 16:46 Roffles wrote:
I remember senior year when I had already gotten admissions and knew that some of my AP exams wouldn't get me any credit, I just screwed around and drew random garbage all over the test and just slept.

On May 17 2012 11:27 Complete wrote:


ap exams cost money... O_O

hwat

On May 17 2012 11:03 Holytornados wrote:



They get the exam packet, but not the actually "graded" portion where you write the essay.

On May 17 2012 11:58 apexamtaker wrote:



alright so my teacher wont be able to see what i wrote about her?