I guess the main differences I noticed as they read the scores higher was that the better score you get, the more imaginative, and technical your art was. As they described the lower scores, they said the artwork did not necessarily mesh together, or seem like it took a deep thought process to create. A 5 is described as excellent work that is generally successful risk taking and imagination, where as a 3 is described as less explored or not as much success if there was risk taking involved.
One thing I guess may have been a little confusing was what exactly they meant by your work was "awkward" in the 1 and 2 grading scales. I'm thinking it means that your pieces just didn't mesh well together or the utensils you used didn't work together to create the image, but it may still be a little questionable to me.
I need to work on risk taking and go outside the lines of what I normally do. Sometimes when i find a specific strength, I continue to do a lot of work specifically in that strength just because I know I'll have a happier chance of liking the results. I don't like putting in the effort to a piece when I find out later I may dislike it, but I know i need to experiment with a lot of new things to discover myself more as an artist. This may go along with that but I need to show my "voice" more and make the work specifically my style that I come up with. It seems like in the grading, especially in 6, that they care a lot about seeing your own voice in your pieces. One more thing I can work on is manipulating the average picture I create and making it something that may take a viewer questioning and thinking to look at and understand. A viewer wants something eye-appealing but yet brain appealing too.
On the lakeridge ap art site I really liked Dylan's (2007-2008, score 5) portfolio. I normally don't care for complete abstract art as much but I was really drawn to some of his work. I really liked the color combinations he chose.I feel like he had a really good balance of commotion and blankness on each piece of art. He showed his drawing talent too in his portfolio and was a great artist all around. Another one I liked is by Elizabeth Peterschmidt on the collegeboard site. I only saw her concentration pieces but I like how each piece obviously demonstrates a lot of technical talent because they are realistically drawn but yet they are all somewhat like a fairy tale or something odd that wouldn't actually be happening. Its like she put animals in humans place but I really like the idea she concentrated on.
I noticed 3s tended to look sometimes more like just a sketchbook piece that was never really finished but it had a good start. They maybe had a lot of white space where a 5 usually had the whole page covered with something even if it had blank space it wasn't just blank paper space. The 5s also included more art that wasn't just a plain portrait; it had something interesting or strange about each piece. In the breadth section of the 5s the students were more risk taking and explored multiple areas and medias where as the 3s the breadth section was still explored but not in as many areas.