<p>AP can really suck. We spent a few weeks on Japan and China because there was an Edo Pop exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which we went to (and now I’m happy we worked through all that). We went over Mesoamerican, too, which seems totally futile. </p>
<p>And I just realized the Turner.</p>
<p>I went to that appass website and even if you get several 2s on the short essays but do decently on the longer ones – albeit maintaining a 6, 7, 8, or 9 – as well as pretty well on the multiple choice, a 3/4/5 is still attainable.</p>
<p>I don’t think we can get more than half. my teacher had us do a practice FRQ section from a released exam and then read the rubric, and it said if you misidentify you can only get at most like half.</p>
<p>To me, the long essays this year seemed more designed to trip us up rather than provide a framework to demonstrate our understanding. Feel frustrated. Got so much out of the class and just couldn’t come up with good examples on the spur of the moment even though I had prepared for pretty much every long essay question I’d seen floating around. P.S. I think Egyptian does qualify as outside the Western tradition. Hope so at least.</p>
<p>I just took the exam today as well.
For the short essay questions, identifying the artist is only worth one point. If you described three characteristics, that can be worth three points. So not knowing that it was a Turner piece shouldn’t have wrecked anyone’s chances at a 5.</p>
<p>And did anyone else use the REA book? I feel like some of the concepts I studied in depth (Renaissance, Impressionism, Modern Art) weren’t tested as heavily. And there was a lot more Egyptian and Islamic art than I expected.</p>
<p>Makes sense–hope I can pick up points elsewhere. Was shooting for the 5.</p>
<p>I was talking about the missing half of one of the long questions dashing my hopes for a 5.</p>
<p>my long essays and multiple choice (for the most part) were good, but i tripped up on the short answers. expecting a 4, perhaps a 5 if i’m lucky.</p>
<p>I’m sure you’ve used appass.com , but if you haven’t, it can more or less tell you what your score should be by plugging in how yout think the mc was and your essays scores</p>
<p>Just got back from the test.</p>
<p>MC was okay. I felt pretty bad coming out of it, but after talking about it during break with a few friends, I felt OK.</p>
<p>Long essays were just plain awful. #1 was easily the most contrived topic I’ve ever seen and #2 seemed a bit too restrictive with the definition of “domestic.” For #1, I used the Eiffel Tower (said it was steel and not iron, though) as the western piece and Song Huizong’s Court Ladies Preparing Freshly Woven Silk as my non-western (started talking about how his use of silk was symbolic of his wanting to avoid political strife :P). For #2, I used van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding and Matisse’s Red Room.</p>
<p>Short essays were better. I feel like I did well on all of them except #4, where I misidentified the artist. We’ll see how the curve turns out, then.</p>
<p>Just got home from the exam & BOY was the two big essays HARD! They were so misleading… I think I got them wrong by reading at what you guys put! But after 2 days… We can then discuss. The short answers were fairly easy though & m/c was ok, nothing bad. BUT THE TWO BIG ESSAYS! WHAT THE HELL!? Why can’t they give us an easier one this year 
ok… Im hoping for a 3 on the exam!</p>
<p>Hmm for the second essay, I thought it was referring to architecture.</p>
<p>^ ME TOO -_____- </p>
<p>Ugh!!!
I’m so scared, no joke.</p>
<p>Used Cindy Sherman and Freake Portrait for 2nd one, Menkaure and Queen and Queen Mother Mask (hell yea, 2 non-westerns). Who cares, not even getting credit for it but it was fun anyways.</p>
<p>See for the first long essay I did African Reliquary figures, talking about the brass and how it kept evil away and how that went with their culture and then I did Votive Offerings, talking about the eyes being the windows to the soul and everything.
The Second question I did Cassat’s The Bath, talking about how women could really only paint domestic scenes. Then I did Las Maninas by Velasquez. I was really happy. Did anyone get mad at the Goya question? My teacher said they’d never ask for “what box he fits in because he has no set box”? And did you get the Turner short response?
I LIVE FOR THIS!!! :D</p>
<p>^Turner was the answer but I put Caspar David Friedrich.</p>
<p>The Goya MC set was devilishly difficult.</p>
<p>You guys are NOT suppose to talk about the specific topics…</p>
<p>Las Meninas isn’t in a domestic space isn’t it set in a studio?</p>
<p>Nope, Las Meninas is set in a large room of Phillip IV’s palace in Madrid.</p>
<p>Smarty: lighten up 
halemcck: I really don’t know…but, it came to me, so I just went with it <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>@lamper… </p>
<p>Hey do you mind msging me? :)</p>