By Anonymous Student
Not many people take the AP music theory exam, but I'm one crazy kid so I did last year. There is a part of the test where you are supposed to analyze the chord structure of a short choral piece. About halfway through, I said "whatever, I'm just gonna make up chords now." So I wrote that one was a half-augminished H chord inverted to the 17th position, with a cherry on top.
Then there was a section where you were supposed to listen to a song and answer a Free Response about the form of the piece. The song was a freakin' kpop anthem. So, I wrote the free response half in made-up Korean, along with translations underneath (which resembled entries in a bad Asian restaurant menu, grammar and all). Which is even funnier because my AP music teacher is Korean.
I still got a 5.
By Anonymous Student
When I did my sight singing for AP music theory exam, the adjudicator forgot to turn on the recording device. I'll note that I was ridiculously nervous when it came to sight singing, and boy did I take hold of that opportunity. He told me not to tell anyone that he made such a fatal mistake. I was the only kid in my AP class to get a 5 on the aural section (4 overall).
And now I tell all of you. Pray that your adjudicator completely bungles the process of recording a simple sight singing exercise.
By Anonymous Student
In my senior year AP English class I wrote all my notes backwards. I was well aware that my teacher graded our notebooks at the end of the class, and I thought it was a pointless thing for her to grade.
I handed in a mirror with the notebook. Still got an A.
By Anonymous Student
I was one of those kids - AP Statistics, I got to the last question and it was a subject from October that the teacher specifically hadn't gone over in our review (now May) because it hadn't been on the test for the past four years. I dimly remembered how it was done, and boiled it down to one of two ways. I ran all the numbers (which took quite a bit of time) and then plugged them back in and realized I had done it the wrong way, and there wasn't time now to redo the whole problem. It was a word problem about dinosaurs though, so I drew a picture of a Tyrannosaurus Rex eating a Brontosaurus alive.
Got a 4 on the test overall, including partial credit on that question for the first half of the work I showed before the divergence.
The next year, I got a phone call from a friend who said her Math teacher at her university was an AP Stat grader, and was telling the class about one of the tests he graded that had a picture of a T-Rex eating a Brontosaurus. It made me extremely happy.
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