<p>fueledbyrick, just practice the essays more. don’t time yourself for a couple, and revise and edit like an actual long term essay. That way you can make writing more intuitive.</p>
<p>taking this?</p>
<p>How was it?</p>
<p>Lol? it’s on wednesday.</p>
<p>Expecting a 4, honestly I dont have the stamina for 2 hours of good writing. A 5,5,5,4 woudl make me happy for this round of AP tests.</p>
<p>Shoot for a 5. It’s not too bad. Everyone’s in the same boat.</p>
<p>I’m moving into Barnes and Nobles and dissecting every “How to get a Five” book this weekend. I feel like it can’t be THAT hard. My teacher’s given us so0o0o000oo much review on the multiple choice. The essays will be the only hard part :/</p>
<p>What is the formula for finding your AP Lang exam grade?</p>
<p>Anyone have tips for the essay?</p>
<p>Here it is:</p>
<p>English Language - 110/150 (5), 94 (4) | 73.33%</p>
<p>110 is your raw score with MC weighted 45% I believe.</p>
<p>analysis probably won’t be a satire this year.</p>
<p>For rhetorical analysis essays, which devices are the easiest for you to analyze? I always analyze the author’s diction as well as their tone… Are there other specific devices that I should analyze that might impress the AP grader?</p>
<p>Parallel structure, rhetorical questions and historical allusions are so easy to spot and analyze. I always tend to analyze those strategies in class timed writes.</p>
<p>diction is always a default, but structure, irony, and figurative language tend to more sophisticated approaches, given that of course they are present.</p>
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Did you get that off of past test patterns or did I miss something?</p>
<p>I tend to write about whatever interests me the most in the given passage that fits a certain device, but typically I go with tone (and possibly pair it with a history of the writer if I recognize him/her, which is rare but has happened), appeals (pathos/ethos/logos, especially if I don’t use tone; this applies more to the argument essay though), structure, or metaphors (if present, which they usually are).</p>
<p>^ I’m pretty sure last year’s analysis was the environmental satire, in which case they probably wouldn’t repeat the same thing twice in a row. I wrote it as an in-class essay, but it might have been 2008; I can’t remember. </p>
<p>I’m averaging about a 70% on MC and a 6-7 on essays. I think that’s a little short of a 5, though, so I’m hoping I’ll just be lucky on Wednesday!</p>
<p>you’re right cryingcloud, it was. Prepare for something dramatic or serious I’d say for this year.</p>
<p>In case anything comes up.</p>
<p>Hey anybody wanna start an AIM chat for this? It’s impossible to keep up with threads.</p>
<p>EDIT: aplang on AIM!</p>
<p>OMGG! how do you even study for this exam?
my strength is writing.
but my teachers are telling me that it is “impossible” to actually do all the MCs in an hour? is that true.
whats your take on the time allotted for the MC section?</p>
<p>Here’s a quotation from me.</p>
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