<p>“Invective”? Wow that’s a new vocab word for me, as our teacher NEVER taught us anything like that, and I had no idea what kind of literary terms I should have studied.</p>
<p>You can use I in a persuasive essay and you can absolutely use personal anecdotes. The only thing that matters is that your evidence is relevent. Evidence from personal experience can be just as good, even better, than historical or literary evidence. Even look at sample essays online. There are many “9” essays with personal experience and many are written in first person.</p>
<p>Can I pass the test if I get like 10 wrong MC, and an 8 and a 7 on two essays but I bomb the third? And I mean really bomb- like a 1 or a 2. It was terrible. Do you think I can still get a 3?</p>
<p>ugh in the princeton review book it said it was good to use a literary, historical, and personal example so that’s what i did 
…the whole test actually seemed really similar to the SAT though i thought (minus the other two essays)</p>
<p>//edit -just read the posts in the last 5 minutes…so hopefully i’m good!</p>
<p>I have no hopes of getting a 3, not a 2, probably not even a 1
It’s going to be such a low grade that it won’t appear on the scale!
This and the calculus AB test I took last week</p>
<p>Anonymous, according to my calculations, you’d get a low 4.</p>
<p>Here’s the calculator for AP E Lang: <a href=“http://web1.caryacademy.org/facultywebs/carole_hamilton/score%20guide.pdf[/url]”>http://web1.caryacademy.org/facultywebs/carole_hamilton/score%20guide.pdf</a></p>
<p>Shouldn’t we all be weary that this was such an easy MC section? Won’t the curve be very difficult?</p>
<p>I agree that the essay topics weren’t the best I’ve seen, especially the argumentative essay…</p>
<p>Matt</p>
<p>I disagree Equilibrium. According to the Barron book, you’re getting a very, very high 4, like only three points away from a 5.</p>
<p>I liked the argumentative essay. I was worried it was going to be much worse, and I think I got some really good literary examples in.</p>
<p>For the synthesis were we supposed to pick 2 different issues with 2 examples each or 1 issue explained with 4 examples?</p>
<p>What literary examples did you all use?</p>
<p>I used one, but it wasn’t about a person, it was a dog, Buck in Call of the Wild?
If anyone has read that book, Buck can be compared to be a person, when facing adverse conditions, will change his character etc</p>
<p>MCs were easy. No big deal.</p>
<p>DBQ was fine, but the phrasing of the prompt was a little bizarre in that it didn’t explicitly tell you to write an “agree/disagree” essay like usual. Rather, it seemed like it wanted you to just write a list of important factors on that issue.</p>
<p>The second free response was just bad I thought–probably the worst AP prompt I’ve encountered. The scope of what you could write about was so narrow that it did not promote very effective and/or interesting essay writing. And I didn’t feel like I could use very many rhetorical terms to analyze the passages with.</p>
<p>The third one was easy, and pretty universal. Yes, it was SAT-like, but luckily they don’t grade these essays like those on the SAT.</p>
<p>Also, is it okay if I qualified the synthesis question a little, even if it didn’t say we could specifically? I gave two different issues in separate paragraphs, and then in another paragraph I said how we should still continue doing it despite those issues because it has more benefits to do so <_<</p>
<p>I used Ulysses S. Grant and Cedric Jennings from A Hope In the Unseen.</p>
<p>For the synthesis were we supposed to pick 2 different issues with 2 examples each or was it ok for 1 issue explained 2 different ways with 2 examples each?</p>
<p>Little worried because it stated issues. :|</p>
<p>“Can you fail one essay and still do okay overall? I HOPE SO!”</p>
<p>I think so! For my AP World essay last year I only wrote 1.5 essays and still got a 4. 
Either a miracle or a wrong score, I think, because for the amount of studying I did I don’t think I deserved that score, lmao.
Granted, the English exam has a heavier emphasis on the essays, but still, I wouldn’t sweat it.</p>
<p>I thought MC was very easy. I answered all of them! : )</p>
<p>For the second prompt I discussed the use of hyperbole and contradiction. Did anyone else get anything remotely close to that?</p>
<p>I discussed the insulting diction, hyperbole, and understatement.</p>
<p>I thought we weren’t allowed to talk about the FRQs until 48 hours past.</p>
<p>I did absurd diction and details.</p>