The Multiple-Choice Section

These are the three types of multiple-choice questions you ll encounter in the Writing section  

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Section I, the multiple-choice section, is machine graded. Each question has five answers to choose from. Remember, there is a penalty for guessing A of a point is taken off for each wrong answer. A student generally needs to correctly answer 50% to 60% of the multiple-choice questions to obtain a 3 on the exam. Each answer in Section II, the free-response section, is read several times by different chemistry instructors who pay great attention to consistency in grading. 

A. Except in certain special cases explained later in this book, you should not guess. There is a penalty for guessing on the multiple-choice section of the exam. As for the free-response section, it simply comes down to whether you know the material or not. 

This is where fuzzy math comes into play. The composite score for the AP Chemistry exam is 150. The free-response section represents 50% of this score, which equals 75 points. The multiple-choice section makes up 50% of the composite score, which equals 75 points. 

Your total composite score for the exam is found by adding the value from the multiple-choice section to the score from the essay section and rounding that sum to the nearest whole number. 

The biggest change to the new SAT is the addition of a Writing section however, all of the material in this section isn t entirely new. The Writing section has three parts the first two are multiple choice, and the last is essay writing. You ll have 35 minutes to complete the multiple-choice section, which is broken down into 25- and 10-minute parts. It contains the same structure and content as the old SAT II Writing Test (which was optional,... 

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