<p>My opinion–If you really want to judge whether or not you are fine on MC, first look at time and how many you get per hour. Then look at the practice, and if you get it down to the best 2 answers and can truly justify why you went with the one over the other (even if you missed it) this will come out in the wash. The biggest difference I find in the released tests and the practice tests from other sources is that the distractors aren’t as compelling. If you truly understand the passage and miss the question because you read it a slightly different way, that isn’t what you worry about. What you worry about is if you couldn’t understand the argument, thus you missed purpose and “thematic” type questions. If that is the case you will struggle to rise above 50-60% on MC.</p>
<p>Its really annoying. I’m on that high 4, low 5 cusp. 0__o a 37 on the MC and a 6 on all 3 essays puts me at a mid four. All i need is some MC advice. =( i think i have good strategies, but i can never get over 40/55. i think improving my MC score would help me more than improving my essay score, even tho the essays are worth more. What essay strategies might be useful? obviously organize, pace yourself. How do u stay away from getting lost in the details? i present arguments, then get so caught up in making sure all counterarguments are silenced, that my essay becomes a huge tangent and i lose sight of my original intent. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>I have also been getting consistent 7s on all the essays sometimes 8s, but just struggle completely on the MC always end up around 33-35. Our teacher only prepared us for the writing.</p>
<p>I am seriously not doing well on multiple choice, especially the writing before 1800s. How do you understand the things that those 1600’s people wrote!?</p>
<p>Time for us East Coast people to go pass out and wake up from nightmares about bubbling in their information on the AP Lang answer sheet wrong. Because seriously, filling those things out is the hardest/most nerve racking part.</p>
<p>Goodluck everybody. Or everyone do really bad so they’ll curve it more.</p>
<p>Dan-Really, what you need to do is prewrite and stick with your plan. I have coached about 10 people through this issue this year, and as soon as their clarity rose, so did their scores. Think about the Synthesis essay…Create a plan before you start reading the sources, then put your sources into your plan to back YOUR argument, and write your essay. Do teh same thing with your Arg. You don’t have to cover all the possible bases with specific refutations, just cover the main thrust of the opposition and direct the argument in the direction you want to take it and then the reader just follows you.</p>
<p>Egg-</p>
<p>Look for diction that is twisted eg.“Want” can mean desire or need, which makes sense in the essay? Once you “get” the joke or point, they become much easier to decipher. Also, probably only one passage is pre Civil War, so you could skip it and come back if you can buy some points on the next essay.</p>
<p>What are some of the rhetorical strategies that i can ALWAYS use for the analytical essay?</p>
<p>PaPa H can you give me a strategy on how to get the point faster than usual, because it takes me a while to get the gist of the passage. I tried to think on what the author is saying but I cannot comprehend the styles.</p>
<p>fire-</p>
<p>I like DIDLS diction imagery details language and syntax as a basic finder for the rhetorical devices
Structure plays a part. Look for the answers to these 2 questions: 1) Author’s purpose, and 2) How does he get there. Most essays have the purpose in the first 10 lines and repeat it in the conclusion. Throughout the body they use examples, images, anecdotes etc. Just tell them what you see and relate that to how it impacts question #1.</p>
<p>I do worse on earlier writings too. I just need more practice. Too bad I’m out of time for it. =P Oh well. I’ll do my best.</p>
<p>Hopefully I can get up to 35+ right on the MC and then at least two 7 essays and a 6 essay. That should put me in the clear for a 4.</p>
<p>My Barron’s score was 31 right…and since Barron’s is usually a smidgen harder, I’m pretty sure I can do a little better (that is, assuming there aren’t a ton of writings from the 1500’s and 1600’s…><) </p>
<p>For rhetorical essays, I just need to keep in mind that they’re asking for me to describe how the author uses his strategies to influence the reader, NOT for me to create an overloaded SAT-vocab essay…</p>
<p>Synthesis I should be okay on as long as remember to completely answer the question and cite my sources.</p>
<p>For the final essay (hopefully an argument), I should be good. Persuasive writing is usually not too hard for me.</p>
<p>apHELP-</p>
<p>look at the first 10 lines until you get it, purpose is usually there, it is usually repeated in the conclusion (or there is a rhet q that makes you consider what the purpose is) either way, AP essays start and stop at a point for a reason, so start with that. Once you have purpose try to anticipate what YOU would do or say, and compare notes to find out why his argument is effective. That will keep you in the passage and give you insights into what he thinks-therefore you can see how he would see the questions.</p>
<p>Remember that you won’t really suffer by comparison if you hang in there on the older passages, everyone struggles with those more.</p>
<p>In all the AP trainings I have been to, they constantly remind us that Author’s purpose is #1 by FAR.</p>
<p>So read it until you get the point.</p>
<p>Thanks PaPa H (nice name by the way!)! I make the outline usually, but for some reason i just fall off topic and by the end of the essay, i dont want to write about what i originally intended. I think everyone would benefit from rhetorical strategies paired with their definition and their effect on the reader. I’ll start:</p>
<p>Anaphora - When the author repeats words at the beginning of sentences. Effect: creates memorable phrases and is used to assist refrain, repetition, parallelism, imagery and litany. </p>
<p>Paralepsis - A pretend or apparent omission. Effect: serves to draw attention to a subjet, while pretending to want the opposite effect. “I dont speak of my opponents stupidity, lack of will”</p>
<p>How accurate is the Princeton review?
44 out of 54 questions right & 5-7 on essays…</p>
<p>& what’s ABOUT the minimum score needed for 5</p>
<p>^108 I believe is minimum 5.</p>
<p>If you got 44 right, skipped the rest, and got all 5 essays, you’d have 100, which is a 4. If you got all 7 essays, you’d have 119, which would be a 5. (110 for all 6’s, also a 5)</p>
<p>How many did you get wrong?</p>
<p>Would someone clear up the difference between these terms? some of them might overlap I’m sure, I just keep seeing these pop up.</p>
<p>rhetorical device
stylistic device
figure of speech
advanced rhetoric
literary terms
rhetorical mode
style analysis</p>
<p>Rhetorical Devices: tools the writer uses to get the point across (simile, metaphor, etc)
Stylistic Device: Um, I’m guessing this is Diction, Syntax, and the like
Figure of Speech: using a term or phrase in way that deviates from the norm; not a literal meaning, etc.
Advanced Rhetoric: Hm…not too sure how to define this one…
Literary terms: This would be just about every term on the exam…
Rhetorical Mode: one of the Four Modes of Discourse: Exposition, Narration, Description, and Argument/Persuasion
Style Analysis: Well…explaining how the author of a selection uses rhetorical devices and basic style devices (diction and syntax, etc) to get the point of the selection across. </p>
<p>Help any? -sweat-</p>
<p>haha, thanks for clearing things up. -wipes sweat-</p>
<p>some of them are style devices, more for what AP Lang used to test-style analysis, others are more argumentation terms for what APL tests now. Some cross between.</p>
<p>rhetorical device, advanced rhetoric, and rhetorical mode
are more current ways to ask you to identify the tools used to achive the author’s purpose.</p>
<p>stylistic device, style analysis
generally refer to style of writing, more often for syle analysis</p>
<p>figure of speech, and lit terms
cross over.</p>
<p>Basically, any of them that you see in Lang are regarding breaking down the question “How does the author achieve his purpose?” which is what you are looking for as you read. You can go with specific terms, types of appeals, structure, or better yet, how all of them combine for what the purpose is.</p>