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 \n☑ Scoring Commentary  \n◎2023 College Board.College Board,Advanced Placement,AP,AP Central,and the acorm logo are registeredtrademarks of College BoardVisit College Board on the web:collegeboard.org.AP Central is the official online home for the AP Program:apcentral.collegeboard.org.  \n# Question 4:Argument Essay\n\n\n| Reporting  \u003Cbr>Category   | Scoring Criteria   |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Row A  \u003Cbr>Claim/Thesis  \u003Cbr>(0-1 points)   | 0 points  \u003Cbr>Does not meet the criteria for one point.   | 1 point  \u003Cbr>Responds to the prompt with a defensible claim or thesis that establishes a line of  \u003Cbr>reasoning.   |\n|  | Decision Rules and Scoring Notes   |  |\n|  | Responses that do not earn this point:  \u003Cbr>·Only restate the prompt.  \u003Cbr>·Do not make a claim that respondsto the prompt.   | Responses that earn this point:  \u003Cbr>·Respond to the prompt rather than restating or rephrasing the prompt and  \u003Cbr>establish a line of reasoning.  \u003Cbr>·Provide a defensible claim or thesis that establishes a line of reasoning about  \u003Cbr>whether the federal government or the states are more effective in ensuring  \u003Cbr>educational opportunities for all students.   |\n|  | Examples that do not earn this point:  \u003Cbr>Restate the prompt  \u003Cbr>·“There is a debate about whetherthe federalor state governments should  \u003Cbr>ensure educational equality.\"  \u003Cbr>Do not respond to the prompt  \u003Cbr>·\"There are times when states do things that help theircitizens out better  \u003Cbr>than the national govemment.\"   | Examples that earn this point:  \u003Cbr>·“The federal government is more effective at ensuring educational  \u003Cbr>opportunities forall students because the federal government has more  \u003Cbr>resources to address issues of inequality than do individual states.\"  \u003Cbr>·“The federal government is more effective at ensuring educational  \u003Cbr>opportunities forall students because it can create national policies that apply  \u003Cbr>to all the states.\"  \u003Cbr>·  “State governments are more effective at ensuring educational opportunities  \u003Cbr>for all students because states are closer to citizens and can develop solutions  \u003Cbr>to fit the particular issues that affect the states.\"   |\n|  | Additional Notes:  \u003Cbr>·The claim or thesis must consist of one or more sentences that may be located anywhere in the response.  \u003Cbr>·A claim or thesis that meets the criteria can be awarded the point whether or not the rest of the response sucesfully supports that line of reasoning   |  |\n\nAP®United States Government and Politics 2023 Scoring Guidelines  \n\n| Reporting  \u003Cbr>Category   | Scoring Criteria   |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Row B  \u003Cbr>Evidence  \u003Cbr>(0-3 points)   | 0 points  \u003Cbr>Does not meet the criteria  \u003Cbr>for one point.   | 1 point  \u003Cbr>Provides one piece of evidence  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