<p>BE CAREFUL everyone! No talking about it specifically for 48 hours!</p>
<p>Yeah word. Don’t mention the essay topics just yet.</p>
<p>I think a lot of you are focusing too much on specifics.</p>
<p>The point of the argumentative essay is not to cram it with as many examples as you can (By the way, historical or literary examples aren’t considered “better” than personal examples. It all depends on how you incorporate the examples into your writing), the point is to make a clear argument that takes a stand. It’s usually good to include a counterargument.</p>
<p>Also, in the rhetorical analysis essay, it doesn’t matter how many good “key terms” you include if you have no analysis. You could write a 9 essay without once mentioning words like diction, syntax, juxtaposition, or any of those other strategies.</p>
<p>The readers don’t have a checklist of terms to mark off as they read. You could have one example in your argumentative essay and get a 9.</p>
<p>It’s all about the writing - the score is holistic.</p>
<p>^I agree with KevRus. Many of the released 7-9 range essays I’ve seen never explicitly mention certain rhetorical devices and actually sometimes highlight some “basic” ones. It is more about actually understanding what the author’s purpose/goal is and then highlighting the ways they do it. The readers really want to see that you got a certain idea, which may or may not depend upon a specific technique.</p>
<p>Gosh, I felt like I guessed at a lot of the MC. They were all easy, and often 4 out the 5 was absurd, but a lot of guessing…
Essays were all easy.</p>
<p>For the synthesis essay I purported the importance of the important aspects, but I also took a side. I even used a counterargument for the Synthesis essay. (6-7pgs)</p>
<p>Analysis essay went by quickly … I simply covered the invective and fallacies that were taking place. Is that sufficient? (2-2.5pgs)</p>
<p>Argument was pie either way. (3-3.5 pgs)</p>
<p>Given that – I felt like my synthesis was extremely good, except for the fact that I advocated a side and had a counter argument (how detrimental will this turn out to be?). My analysis essay was very brief… 2pages or 2 and a half (there was such a dearth of text to actually analyze >_>). And the Argument was good. </p>
<p>I expect around a 47-50 on the multiple choice.</p>
<p>Can someone predict my score and tell me the problem/or lack of a problem with my synthesis? Thanks</p>
<p>For the synthesis essay is it okay if I took a very definite side, while explaining the most important aspects to consider?</p>
<p>I thought the MC was really niceee. Especially compared to the released tests we did in class. I left about 5 blank and guessed on maybe 3-5. </p>
<p>Essays… I feel way too confident I think, haha… Like I’m hoping for at least a 7 on all 3. Maybe I can get a 5 on the AP? Eeep.</p>
<p>So the first one I really only had one “idea” and it was about 2+ pages. All of my essays were 2-4 pages long and I felt really accomplished after reading through them all. 
Lots of crossing out though… ugh, pen. Wow my hand still hurts from the writing.</p>
<p>The second essay I mentioned irony and threw in a “juxtaposition” or two but no serious rhetorical words. They never mentioned that in the prompt, so I took liberty where I could.</p>
<p>Third essay I used Les Miserables (Jean Valjean), the civil rights movement in general (noting Dr. King and Rosa Parks which may not have been the best examples… but meh), and women’s rights (they wrote and became authors… as we see in nearly every standardized test… always something about women’s rights. At that moment as I wrote my essay I wished I could flip back in my MC booklet to get a quote or something haha). So I defended the quote given because it was the easiest way and I had no idea for examples of the other “side”. Looking back my examples weren’t the <em>best</em> but I think they’re somewhat valid.</p>
<p>Hurrah… done with APs till next year!</p>
<p>electric. how the hell did you write 6-7pgs for synthesis?</p>
<p>and what do u think ur essay scores were?</p>
<p>Punished this exam</p>
<p>Yeah I agree with I took the SAT. I don’t think a reader will want to read more than 4-5 pages of someone’s synthesis essay.</p>
<p>Man, I had to rewrite my last two essays twice. For the rhetorical analysis, I crossed out a whole page because I realized that the syntax was horrible. And for the persuasive, I started off by citing only historical examples but then decided not to because my English teacher gave me a 5/9 when I did that. Apparently, historical references are not concrete examples. : </p>
<p>I can only describe what occurred on my exam as a simple but brutal massacre. I was shocked by the length of the m.c., and I am baffled as to how I was expected to answer each question in twenty seconds. I felt the passages were much too difficult, and the first passage caused my balloon to burst immediately, so to speak. Although I had never practiced a synthesis essay, this was unlike all others I have seen thus far, as we were not specifically told to take a side. I had an extensive amount of trouble responding to the second and third questions, and for the second essay, I fabricated an inadequate, 3 paragraph answer. Murphy’s Law- Anything that could go wrong certainly did.</p>
<p>For the synthesis - I think so many people basically made it an argument that it won’t be a big deal.</p>
<p>Hmm, did you self study kjw? Or did you have a teacher who inadequetly prepared you?</p>
<p>My understanding was that the synthesis essay is essentially an argumentative essay (regardless of whether or not the prompt explicitly states to make an argument), so I took a stand. That’s what our teacher told us, anyway.</p>
<p>So nobody else thought the MC could have been deceptive?</p>
<p>with your worst possible score of 47-7-6-6, you have a 5 regardless of the curve.</p>
<p>@seadog - if the multiple choice were deceptive then they certainly got me! everything seemed really straight forward and i was able to identify 75%+ of the answers directly in the passage.</p>
<p>Did any of you guys title your essays?</p>
<p>Does it even matter to have a title?</p>