<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've been in AP English III and have been making Bs all year round. I'm trying my best, but no matter how much effort I put in towards the class, I get really cruddy results. With the AP exam coming up in like what, 12 DAYS, I'm really getting scared. Throughout the year, my class has done many MC practices but, I have never done well on them. In fact, there was never any improvement. How exactly can I brush up my MC taking skills? I bought the 2013 Princeton review, but, like many of my friends told me, it didn't help at all. It's just giving me tips that I already know... </p>
<p>What do you recommend I do at this point?</p>
<p>You haven’t listed your weaknesses on the exam, but I know that most people have trouble with the multiple choice questions. My advice is to rely on the curve grading for the essays - try to score 7-9 on the essays and try to score at least 75% on the multiple choice. This way you can achieve at least a 4-5 on the exam. </p>
<p>The collegeboard site has released all the practice essay questions from the previous years. Practice all of these. Write 1-3 essays each day from now on and have your AP Lang teacher grade them. Also figure out why you have Bs. Maybe there are consistent mistakes or flaws that you have in writing? I know that for me I tend to diverge from my thesis in my essays. </p>
<p>Best of luck :)</p>
<p>According to AP Pass you need a raw score of ~80-97 to get a 3. If you suck at MC, try to aim for 22/52 questions correct (that’s 42.3%) and a 6, 6, and 5 on the essay. It’s not really that hard to get. If you feel you are really good on the essays (like you get 9s) then you can have a lower MC raw score. If you want the AP calculator just google APpass and play around with it to see the minimum to get a 3, 4, or 5. :]</p>
<p>Learn SAT vocab and brush up on some rhetorical devices. There’s always at least 2 or 3 questions on vocab per passage, and if you know at least 4/5 of the words, its easy. As for rhetorical devices, one essay will ask about them, and there may be a couple multiple choice about them. Know the simpler ones, like anaphora, chiasmus, parallelism, the appeals (to authority, from authority, ethos, logos, pathos) for good measure.</p>
<p>For the multiple choice that identify a certain line, read over the line very, very closely. Read the sentence before and sentence after to see how it fits in with the passage, and identify what it really means.</p>