<p>Typically, the junior at my school takes AP Language and the senior takes AP Literature. My AP Language teacher has been the best teacher I’ve ever had in all four years of high school! I miss that class :’(</p>
<p>I took AP Lang Sophomore year and found it to be a very challenging but beneficial class. I took the AP Lit test the next year without taking the class (I took IB HL English Yr 1 instead) and thought it was a joke.</p>
<p>I took Lang this past school year as a junior and this upcoming year I will be taking Lit. My lang class was the best course I have taken in high school, my teacher was beyond excellent, but the class was highly difficult, because it is very technical and it deals a lot with style, structure, syntax, and diction. The exam itself is a monster: 1 hour to read 5-6 complex non-fiction passages along with 55 questions. Then the essays are also arduous, for you only have 2 hours to write 3 cohesive essays-- 40 minutes per essay. Fortunately I earned a 3 on the test and I consider myself to be an English person, however, the 2013 lang exam was said to be one of the hardest test in comparison to previous years, because of the difficult essay topics; according to the college board students struggled with the rhetorical analysis the most. I have yet to take Lit, but I have asked and read enough to say that it appears to be the easier English test, especially if you take lang before lit. It is a class were less technicality is expected, you analyze thematic concepts and literary genres, the difficult aspect of the test must be the poetry analysis, but the rest of the exam/class seems to be doable.</p>
<p>Lang = Devices/Grammar
Lit = Theme</p>