<p>i definitely got carpal tunnel from that test.</p>
<p>CollegeBoard likes civil rights. African-Americans, feminism, etc. are disproportionately represented on the APUSH and SAT USH exams, and I guess on AP Lang as well.</p>
<p>There was actually someone in our room who finished around the same time as me (15-20 minutes left), and we only had like 15 people tops taking it. I guess our school has a lot of fast readers…? (Or it could be self-selection. xP)</p>
<p>Actually, I did notice that on the APUSH test too… half of the FRQs were about Blacks. One was slavery and the other was civil rights leaders.</p>
<p>I have one question, though. How can an international AP English student be expected to answer the last essay?</p>
<p>^Internationals get Form B, which is different from our test. Though AFAIK, all of North/South America gets the same test, so I wonder what Canadians had to do.</p>
<p>Ronaldofan94:
I don’t think everyone has to be good at English. I bet a good many of these people aren’t going to be astrophysicists or engineers…everyone has their own niche as far as school/interests go and if you don’t think it’s English for you, it’s probably not. (It’s not me either. You’re definitely not the only one :P)</p>
<p>@314159265 A Canadian on the other thread (or was it this one?) said they had to do the same one as we Americans did.</p>
<p>I don’t think the people here who are worried about getting a 4 should be concerned at all. I’m pretty sure a third or even half of the kids from my school who took it helped lower the curve. I talked to some of them, and a lot of my friends left parts of the FRQ blank or barely tried if they did write something. There were a LOT of people who took the test too.</p>
<p>Then again, I go to a ghetto public school where even the best of students struggle to get A’s… It’s kind of sad. But anyway–don’t worry so much! I’m sure the College Confidential elite all passed ;)</p>
<p>lol yeah, even though the majority here say the test was easy, most public schools’ students have said the MC was hard.</p>
<p>Hey, I go to a public school and 85% of us get a 3 or better on this test every year</p>
<p>for this exam i think a 3 is easy to get. A 4 and 5 is challenging for the majority of test-takers</p>
<p>I go to public school. I think our record for this test is pretty good, as I recall. Then again, the only kids who take the test are the 48 accepted into AP Writing (though I think 1 or 2 dropped out 1st semester… but I digress).</p>
<p>Of course I’m not speaking for other public schools. I’m only speaking for mine. I’m talking about a poor, relatively ghetto public school in a hodunk city where the principal told us during an assembly that he would be surprised if 300 students of our class graduate next year. We have about 500 students in our class. It was almost offensive but far from surprising.</p>
<p>I mean, if my classmates this year don’t at least PASS the exam, I wouldn’t totally blame them. We did one practice synthesis essay this year, and we had two days (including bringing it home) to do it, which kind of ruined the point of doing everything within a time limit. When we read books, we just had “discussions” (two or three people who actually read the chapters would participate). We practically played Apples to Apples or just talked to each other for the whole first semester, and people are still failing the course. I know we never truly went over important AP literary terms, which I fortunately looked up on my own (luckily I knew the few that popped up on the test!).</p>
<p>In some ways, I’m grateful. My English skills are sufficient and not having a lot to do for the class eases my course load. Unfortunately, that means my skills have definitely stagnated from the lack of practice, and it’s evident from the noticeable dip in quality my essays have suffered from this year. Urrrghhh.</p>
<p>Sorry for the rant. It probably sounds really self-centered too, but English is one of my favorite subjects so not feeling 100% prepared for this test makes me feel insecure. I just wanted to get it off my chest. To add something more relevant to the topic, did anyone find that last FRQ to be a total stress reliever? I only had 20 minutes left to BS it, so I just started rambling about why I disagreed with the passage. I was happy at how easy it was but sad that I didn’t get to spend more time on it; if I worked on #3 first, I’m sure I could have gotten a solid 7 or 8. Stupid synthesis essay… think I misinterpreted the prompt. :\ Oh well! Hope you guys who did well didn’t set the curve too high. I’m thinking about retaking it if I don’t get a 5.</p>
<p>I go to a public school, but it’s a very good public school(40% White, 43% Asian). We had 100 people take the Eng Lang test.</p>
<p>quick question: what do you guys think will happen to a score if you incorrectly identified one of the strategies was discussed in the response but had a clear idea of what it was and (hopefully) analyzed correctly the author’s usage of it?</p>
<p>The racist implications of “(40% White, 43% Asian)” being cited as evidence that a public school is “very good” are incredibly absurd.</p>
<p>whats wrong with you unikorn, asian kids and white kids is smarter than mexicens and blacks u know? common sense, WOW maybee u should get some???</p>
<p>Common sense is not necessarily right. It used to be common sense that the earth is flat, for example; this is clearly not the case now. I go to a school with 75%+ Asians, and there is plenty of stupidity to go around.</p>
<p>Back to AP Lang… We don’t have a class for this, but we do have an honors class for 11th graders. It was mostly useless for the AP test, except for the usual practice in reading and writing (basically, normal English stuff), so I just studied out of CliffsAP and looked at past essays to get an idea of how they appear. I ended up doing pretty well, so I guess that’s a good way to study for the exam. I’m not even sure why I took this; maybe I thought it would make me more well-rounded or improve my language analysis skills…</p>
<p>Is it okay if you did not write “Page 1 of 4,” etc. in the FRQ booklet? The example essays on CB have them, so I’m wondering if they need them to find the correct order.</p>
<p>^ I think you need to so they know what essay your writing about, but they should be able to figure it out. Way to **** them off lol :P</p>