AP Graders, What's the Funniest Test You've Seen?

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[finchborat]

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My late dad was an AP history teacher for a couple of decades. A couple of months after he passed away, I was able to find a couple of boxes that had AP essay booklets in them while doing inventory at his house. He had A TON of paperwork and books from his high school classroom stored in his barn and it took a few trips before I found them. I saved the booklets from being thrown out.

The booklets were from people in my class (2010) who had him for AP World and AP Euro during our junior and senior years, the AP Euro booklets from the 2009 people who had him, and the AP World booklets from the 2011 people who had him. He also kept the booklets that had the essay questions for everyone who had him for most of the 2000s and very early 2010s.

I'll share some of the funniest ones from my class.

For the DBQ essay from the AP World exam, a classmate opted to write about a conversation she and others in her drama class had one day talking about if each letter of the alphabet was a person and what each person's personality would be like. For the 2nd essay, she wrote what all was running through her head and listed a bunch of words that started with the letter "O."

Another classmate started off by writing a letter to whoever her AP grader was, noting my dad didn't prepare us for the AP World exam (he had weekly review sessions and she went to just 1; however, the sessions were largely unproductive and he could only do them on Monday nights; refused to do them on weekends) and stated it was out of character for her to not even try on the essays and said at one point "I accept my defeat on this exam with grace and dignity." She then proceeded to write a whole bunch of lists, from her to do list for the day, to short term and long term goals, to her summer plans, to places she wants to visit around the world, to reasons why our hometown sucked. She ended it with quotes from my dad and a math equation that equaled 0 and said it was "my grade on this."

On a question that asked to compare racial ideologies in North America and Latin America from 1500 to 1830, a classmate who BS-ed his way through 2 of the essays made note of Lincoln freeing the slaves via the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), made note of MLK (1929-1968) and the KKK (formed in 1865), shared a quote from Gandhi (died 75 yrs ago), and noted that everyone in Latin America was under the rule of FIDEL CASTRO (took over Cuba in 1959).

A classmate who had my dad during our Senior Year for AP World wrote that the class was fun and all they did was watch movies (he showed movies and documentaries a decent bit, but not all the time) and she noted she didn't know about the AP exam having essays and said "we never learned anything about the test." She then proceeded to note that the schedule for the week consisted of watching a movie Monday through Thursday and have a test on Friday. Ultimately, she was exaggerating about the schedule.

One classmate during Senior Year wrote "Hey, I don't want to write an essay. Bye!" and then drew a picture of his watch and the head of a cat. Another classmate didn't make an attempt on any essays and instead drew a picture of my dad's face, a monkey, the head of a dog, a twister, and some super hero.

[samsimington]

I find it sad that the "strike through=no grade" thing dropped the success curve to what essentially is failing otherwise

[amyx]

I went to an accelerated doctorate program to save years and this tuition. I couldn’t use my AP credits though. I had enough credits to equal 22 credits. So I didn’t actually save any time in the end 😂.

I didn’t even bother taking AP French or Chinese. I totally could’ve been a freshman Junior.

[hannahmetzger]

Aaahhh, high school. Went there from 2014 to 2016 (I think it was 2014 when I started high school...I got heald back a couple grades through elementary and middle school). I miss those days. :3.

[MariaMartinez-researcher]

1:47. "Politics" doesn't come from Latin, but from Greek, polis -> city.
In Latin, city is called "urbs, " which gave words like "urbanization, " and "civitas, " which gave words like "civic."

[kendoruslink]

These make me kind of wish I had done some kind of doodle in my exams but was an anxious teen who might have gotten into trouble .