<p>I’m guessing the curve will be a harsh one this year :(</p>
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<p>@meursalt Oh gosh! Didn’t your proctor warn you not to write in pencil? S/he should have also read it aloud again when flipping to the back cover of the packet (it said it there for us to read). Honestly, I agree that you should immediately call the appropriate department either today or tomorrow. It said “essays not written in black or dark blue ink will not be accepted,” so you’ll <em>definitely</em> need to call them and see if you can work something out. Wow! I’m sorry, that must suck!</p>
<p>No point in being sad. Either scenario, in which there is a hard test and an easy curve or easy test and an hard curve, sucks.</p>
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<p>My proctor did and she gave me a pen too! I guess i got used to the pencil or smtg; it didn’t consciously register in my head that i had to use the pen becaue i was so focused on the topic. Accidents in formalities always happen to me! Why!!! ****. I need this exam.</p>
<p>@meursalt I actually had a nightmare last night that I had written in pencil and didn’t realize until I was halfway through my last essay. :/</p>
<p>And maybe CB will go easy on you and count it anyway? If not, there’s a good chance they’ll let you take the make-up exam (possibly without the exorbitant charge)…</p>
<p>what happens if i accidentally wrote in pencil? we were in the school library (which is huge) and i sat on the other side of the room…and didn’t even hear the proctor say we have to use a pen</p>
<p>WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?
PLEASE HELP</p>
<p>@hardworking It seem @meursalt had a similar problem. Read my above response.</p>
<p>I’m really happy with how it went! It was a lot easier than I expected and I felt really prepared! Definitely my best AP so far… econ tomorrow, that won’t go well!</p>
<p>MC was medium-easy, some hard questions that i probably got wrong. I predict ~44 right. </p>
<p>Essays were very straightforward. My synthesis was pretty good, rhetorical analysis, i completely annihilated the passage as in i analyzed and wrote the significance of EVERYTHING. Argument went pretty well, it was easy to find examples. </p>
<p>I predict 7-8 on my essays, no less than 6 and an outside chance at a 9.</p>
<p>I thought the MC was pretty easy. I screwed up the essays pretty badly though. I started over on my synthesis essay after 15 min, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t answer the question correctly. I did the argumentation one second, but I couldn’t think of any evidence to use besides giving examples. And I wrote a page and a half on the rhetorical analysis without the full amount of time. I could only write two body paragraphs on all three essays too since I was running out of time. APPass says I’d need 44/52 on MC with three sixes to make a 5 :S</p>
<p>I always read the full passage on the MC but I answer the questions that refer to specific lines or paragraphs as I go on (referring to earlier discussion).</p>
<p>I wrote 7 pages for the synthesis essay, 5 for the rhetoric one, and 4 for the argumentative one… I mean I’m sure a little bit of it was repetitive, and my handwriting is large, but is this uncommon?</p>
<p>It was all so easy…that synthesis essay topic was stupid as hell though</p>
<p>^Yeah i was like ***??? the argument one was a little silly also.</p>
<p>Rhetorical- parallelism, use of nouns and pronouns, asyndeton, and imagery</p>
<p>@decillion wwow thats a lot hahaa…i only had about 10-11 pages combined</p>
<p>rhetorical strategies-appeal to pathos, rhetorical questions, repetition of word clauses</p>
<p>@zach12 Having 2 body paragraphs is perfectly fine. In fact, in many cases, especially in the argumentative essay and many times in the rhetorical analysis, it is better to write just 2 body paragraphs (assuming you write the average ~2-3 page essay) because you are able to better flesh out those paragraphs in order to fully answer and/or fulfill the prompt. As for the synthesis, the same holds true, though it is less important to pick 2 or 3 paragraphs-- either works fine. The main point of this particular AP test is to test your rhetorical writing ability. If you write just one page, but still have an effective rhetorical piece, that’s just as fine as accomplishing the same thing in 4 pages.</p>
<p>For the RA I used pathos/imagery and instilling guilt (whatever that is called) in the audience. Didn’t even get to finish the second body paragraph either…</p>
<p>Yeah, I will write 2 body paragraphs occasionally, but on the synthesis essay today I had a whole other topic (economy) that I couldn’t include in my essay. The argumentation wasn’t as bad because my third potential point (about riots) wouldn’t have been very developed.</p>
<p>I had 6.5 pages total, 2.5 on the synth and argument and 1.5 on the RA.</p>