<p>I am SO sad… I misread the prompt. I took a position instead of exploring both ways…</p>
<p>Is that bad?</p>
<p>it changes with every test. :X in my kaplan 2008 book, it is:</p>
<p>114 - 144 : 5
88 - 113: 4
67 - 87: 3
40 - 66 2</p>
<p>edit: softiful, i did somewhat the same thing… i can’t go into detail of course, but now i’m worried like you are :/</p>
<p>cassen: Even if I bombed just that essay, I think my other two were decent… I definitely got at least a 3…</p>
<p>i felt like all of the prompts were VERY ambiguous and broad.</p>
<p>I swear both AP US History and AP Lang Gods are watching over me. In both exams all of the essays were about stuff that I know well and could easily write about as opposed to stuff where I’d spend 20 minutes thinking and end up with a 3 paragraph essay.</p>
<p>Or AP exams in general have just gotten easier, which would be cool too.</p>
<p>Mmmmmmmmmmcccccccccccc, did you find it to be superficial?</p>
<p>MC: ridiculously easy. </p>
<p>Then again, I was getting 5’s on practice tests in the first few weeks of school. I really didn’t need that class to pass the exam…</p>
<p>im gonna get arrested for raping that testtt</p>
<p>I agree with rk33. Some of the posts here are making me nervous. I only wrote a total of 7 pages <_<</p>
<p>wait, you had to argue for BOTH points? but even if you argued against it, if you wrote down the “key” issues necessary, then i don’t think it matters which stance you took; i mean , you still technically followed the prompt. right?</p>
<p>I don’t know what all this is about arguing for sides… There were no sides, it wasn’t a debate. They just asked for a list of “things,” won’t get specific.</p>
<p>the issue about the synthesis is that we are worried about how much it will affect us if we DID take a side.</p>
<p>i addressed the prompt, but i manipulated it in a way that would allow me to take a side. i’m sure that is also what others have done. we are wondering if that was okay to do, of course.</p>
<p>I feel like maybe I talked about way too few devices on the second essay. I said like hyperbole and talked about the number of times they used forms of they and that each person said “these people” once. I mean, my essay was gorgeous, but my writing always is. But sometimes it’s pretty but empty.</p>
<p>let me restate the prompt as vaguely as i can without getting into trouble
it listed “blah blah blah is something . discuss the ** and the ** issues”
and then below it
it said
“TAKE A POSITION…concerning the key ideas that *** should follow”
but idk if that meant take a position concerning the actual ** or the key ideas you put down.</p>
<p>hopefully that…made sense? lol idon’t think it did.</p>
<p>but i don’t htink it matters if you took a stance, as long as you supported it with the F and the E stances.</p>
<p>i can vouch for what you said, wheatbread. that makes me feel tons better. thank you for your statement :)</p>
<p>I think some people here might be freaking out over the fact that others are saying they were supposed to do something different on the essays. Since we can’t specifically discuss the prompt’s instructions, keep in mind that these people could be in a different time zone and have a different prompt.</p>
<p>rk33: i wrote 11.5 pages and had ten minutes left
if ur comfortable with ur writing and know what ur goin to say…planning during the 15 minute period helps, then its easy to write fast and to write welll…</p>
<p>the synthesis prompt , 100 percent sure of this, asked you to say what things to consider when deciding whether to -u kno-…if u took a position its okay as long as you said what you would consider and how that effects ur decision</p>
<p>the other two were extremely easy…for the argumentation i cited andrew carnegie, gospel of wealth, old man and the sea, space race, nature vs. nurture and used it to prove my thesis that competition drives society</p>
<p>i believe most of us are talking about the same essay. i’ve skimmed enough of the pages to make this conclusion… but really, it’s when the polarity of group conversation causes you to doubt yourself</p>
<p>i was kind of worried about it too cassenoix, at first, but i really wouldn’t look into that much. as long as your position took in what the prompt addressed (as titann said) it should be fine.</p>
<p>uh oh… i did take a side… but isn’t that what the prompt asked for?
wasn’t it “TAKE A POSITION ON issues related to [topic]” … (sorry, can’t reveal topic yet)</p>
<p>^it was vaguely put but i clearly remember there being “TAKE A POSITION ON the key issues…” but necessarily the “event” itself which is what i think might have thrown people off. either way, as titann put it, i think it should be fine as long as you did address the prompt as well as the stance you took.</p>