<p>Lemone: Use “I” if that’s your style. Honestly, guys, just write however you feel most comfortable writing. Yes, even if that includes using the second person plural in the rhetoric passage. Just write your strongest, and they’ll appreciate that.</p>
<p>@Manbeam - There are really on 5 grades for the exam - 1/2, 3/4. 5/6, 7/8, and 9.
The lower score shows that you grasped the meaning, and had some good ideas but your use of rhetoric is off. Too many grammar mistakes, for instance, would get you a 7 rather than an 8. </p>
<p>@ Iamamartain - ohmy. I would get on the college board website, and get some of the released tests and do them. I’d also go to Cliff Notes, rather than Spark notes.</p>
<p>no i’m pretty sure 5-7 is adequate, 8-9 is effective, 9 being having rhetoric</p>
<p>if you got a 1 on sparknotes… there’s not much that can help you, man. sorry.
maybe you circled the wrong answers or something, or graded wrong…?</p>
<p>what if i improve my multiple choice so it atleast makes a 2…what do i need on the essays in order for a 3. straight 5’s?
My teacher was a complete idiot who only talked about her favorite books but that is no excuse.</p>
<p>manbeam, I didn’t mean that in a literal sense. What I mean is that, looking on the rubric, those are all different grade levels, but within the same grade. </p>
<p>For ex, a 7 would be a B-, B and an 8 would be a B+, A-</p>
<p>Does anyone know how the 5 steps to a 5 tests compare to the real exam? Are they easier/harder or perhaps even on the same level?</p>
<p>@ Iamamartain : I did pretty bad on that sparknotes test too and I didn’t find it very easy like everyone else said. My teacher had an old ap exam that she gave us for a mid term and I ended up getting a 4 so I wouldnt feel toooo horrible about that sparknotes thing. The essays can bring you up a lot.</p>
<p>@ Iamamartain - if you can get a 55% on the MC, and then write 3 6 essays, you can get a 4. So I would imagine a 55% on MC and 3 5 essays could get you a 3.</p>
<p>For mc: read the passage dilligently, and emphasize phrases like you would reading them aloud. Take it seriously, but NOT TOO SERIOUS, try to have fun and learn something from the passages.
GET A 5!!</p>
<p>Anyone know how to make 8-level essays a 9? (or 6 to a 7)</p>
<p>And is not having an intro okay/ My teacher said it was, but now I’m not so sure.</p>
<p>whats the difference between forming an adequate stance versus an effective stance on the essay arguments?</p>
<p>How many questions on the multiple choice and how long do we have? My teacher said there are 100 questions in 60 minutes…i don’t see how that is physically possible?</p>
<p>@meadow36</p>
<p>I would think that having a good intro with a nice attention getter would give you extra style points.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how this would be graded:</p>
<p>54 multiple choice questions
I took them timed
7 omits
4 wrong</p>
<p>My AP Lang teacher gave me the packet. She gave me 43/47, but is that right?
If this was graded SAT style I believe I would be graded:</p>
<p>54 - 11 - 4(1/4) = 42/54</p>
<p>Anyway, is my mc score enough for a 5 assuming my essays are decent (6ish)?</p>
<p>Key think to argument and synthesis essays is addressing the counterargument. And for rhetorical analysis, it’s maybe finding irony.</p>
<p>And hmm any other style pointers?</p>
<p>Yes, according to a sheet our teacher gave us, getting three 6s should warrant you a 5. And you will probably do better than 3 6s.</p>
<p>My teacher gave a kid extra points for copying the author’s tone once. We had to analyze a satire and he copied the sarcastic tone in his essay. And of course similes, metaphors, parallelism, etc count as style points.</p>
<p>what’s better for MC:</p>
<p>Read a paragraph, answer questions that you can, continue reading the next paragraph, repeat</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>Read the whole passage for the main topic, go to a question, narrow it down, look to the passage, answer, go to next question, etc</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>Read half the passage, answer questions, read the other half, answer, next passage, repeat</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>your suggestions?</p>
<p>@manbean</p>
<p>I don’t know if you should be changing your strategy the day before the test, but I started doing the questions as I came across the point in the essay that pertained to me. I answered the “The main purpose of this essay…” type questions when I was done reading the entire passage. This improved my MC score.</p>