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I took a practice exam in the barron’s book and I would like calculate what I got. What is the formula to do that?

Take the # of questions that you got wrong and times that by .25 (call this “n”)

Take the number of questions that you got right and subtract “n” For example, if you got 5 wrong and 30 right (I hope you would never skip that many though) you would take 30 – 1.25

Then take the difference and times that by .8571 which will give you a composite score.

Ideally you’d like a composite score above a 27 since that means you have at least a 2 before heading into the essays.

Ok, thank you. Well I got a 22.9, I guess I improved a little from last time when I got a 17.

ANSWERS TO THE DIAGNOSTIC AP EXAM

1. A
2. C
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. A
7. C
8. A
9. C
10. A
11. C
12. A
13. E
14. B
15. A
16. C
17. D
18. E
19. E
20. C
21. B
22. B
23. C
24. C
25. B
26. D
27. E
28. E
29. E
30. B
31. D
32. A
33. B
34. E
35. C
36. D
37. E
38. B
39. C
40. D
41. E
42. A
43. D
44. C
45. C
46. E
47. C
48. E
49. D
50. B
51. D
52. A
53. B
54. D
55. A
56. A
57. D
58. B
59. B
60. D
61. D
62. A
63. B
64. C
65. D
66. A
67. D
68. D
69. D
70. B

Yay! My composite score was 31.28415, which is definitely better than my 25.489725. And I only skipped one!

I got a 3 on the AP test! I don’t even know if you check the blog in the summer. But they just came and I am glad I didn’t completely fail it!

haha I didn’t know where to post this so it’s here