<p>Advice: If you can’t come up with an evidence for this year’s argumentative essay, there’s always lying. Make sure you reference that lie to a source, like the New Yorker or the New York Times, to make it credible. ;)</p>
<p>That’s my plan if the prompt was like the community service one from 2007 or 2008.</p>
<p>Hopefully we won’t have to rely on that, but thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>Does everyone plan to use 3 of the sources in the Synthesis essay? I know 3 is the minimum but I feel like 4 or 5 would show that you are faster and more intelligent than the norm. But at the same time too many will make an incoherent mess.
What’s your plan?</p>
<p>hotinpursuit, I was told that, as you said, 3 is needed. I was also told that one can use more than 3 sources, but using more isnt supposed to get you more points. So, it seems like it wont really help, but I see how it could make a reader think you are more intelligent/sophisticated or whatever. :-)</p>
<p>I usually use 4; but my teacher has stressed that YOUR argument is primary, and that the essay is more about using sources to complement your argument rather than using the sources to do the argument for you. (I suppose that makes sense?)</p>
<p>I know there’s no difference between 3 and 4 sources, but I can’t help but feel iffy about only using the minimum amount. I would also suspect that anything more than 5 is too much.</p>
<p>I guarantee you guys, AP English is FAR harder than APUSH. APUSH just takes more work to study for, and since people are incredibly lazy, APUSH’s score stats just seem bad.</p>
<p>How much time do we receive for the reading period?</p>
<p>During the FRQ, 15 minutes but you can’t write the essay during that time. However, you may annotate the sources and the given prompts and outline. Afterward, you receive your 2-hour time period to write your essays.</p>
<p>how is the scoring for this exam i know mc is worth 45% and essays 55% but like the break down</p>
<p>from what my teacher has been doing its (mc correct - number wrong/4)1.125 then add 3.0556 times each essay score (i.e. 7<em>3.0556+8</em>3.0556+6*3.0556) to reach the final composite score.</p>
<p>is that correct?</p>
<p>Honestly you guys, don’t stress the multiple choice. You need to get 54% right to get a five. 54 percent. As long as you’re getting a little bit over half right, you’ll be fine. </p>
<p>Your whole grade is in the essay, and that’s not even that bad. For the argument one they give you a prompt and you just discuss it (and argue one side); you can use your own experience and it makes it easy. The rhetorical one isn’t bad either; just review the strategies and look over high scoring essays on college board to see what they’re looking for. I don’t know much about the synthesis one (we haven’t discussed it yet) but essentially all it is is a DBQ. And you hardly have to use any documents; three out of nine. </p>
<p>Seriously, though, the best way to study (I think) is it go on college board and look at their essays. They have low scoring ones (around a three), ones that got around a six, and high scoring ones (eight to nine). Compare them, look at the writing, become familiar with how they lost points. Look over the multiple choice, but stressing about it is seriously a waste of time as long as your getting over half right.</p>
<p>Haha, maybe you guys already know this, but I saw a lot of people spazzing about the multiple choice when it’s really not necessary. So yeah.</p>
<p>Currently trying to access AP Central…but its not working for me…Can anyone provide sample essays?
my email is <a href="mailto:gillatorby@yahoo.com">gillatorby@yahoo.com</a></p>
<p>@vertigo220H Hey I messaged you. Please let me know if you get it. Thanks! :)</p>