AP English Language Misinterpreting the ENTIRE ESSAY

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<p>How much points would they take off if the following happens?</p>

<li>It is very well written, </li>
<li>Question asks about the rhetoric strategies of the essay: diction, syntax, and figurative language discussed thoroughly,</li>
<li>But it misinterprets the author’s thesis, and wrote about the rhetoric strategies basing on the OPPOSITE of the author’s thesis?</li>
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<p>For example, if the passage really said that ambition is good, but I wrote the essay discussing its rhetoric strategies assuming that the author said ambition is bad, would I get a 0?</p>

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<p>really depends on the rubric; i don't think so tho.</p>

<p>are you talkin about the 2nd essay?</p>

3

<p>yes .</p>

4

<p>yeah..that one was the most awful :(</p>

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<p>anyone know for sure what kind of a score deduction it will be?</p>

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<p>Wait was that the one about wealth wow i most def. got it wrong then I said at first that the author was using satire to say how working class people had to work for their wealth.. and then there was irony because I said once the person becomes famous they draw the envy of the poor who want to elevate to their status.... </p>

<p>That essay it seems i TOTALLY missed.. the others i was dead on with</p>

7

<p>yeah that's exactly what i thought
anyone knows this? i hope 2 is not the max score if you misinterpret the entire thing</p>

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<p>what do you guys think is the max score for an essay thats between 1.25-1.75 pages. All of mine were in that range.</p>

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<p>I have no idea what to think about the second essay. I think that I wrote it well and supported it, but I didn't bring satire or irony into it, but instead the structure and hyperbole. I realized it was satire about halfway through my essay and it was too late to fix it so I went with it. Ahhhhhh.....</p>

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<p>No one I know talked about satire.</p>

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<p>i think 5 is the max you can get if somehow they prove part is right but it's probably a 4 yea pretty much sucked all day today i didn't htink the multiple choice was that hard though</p>

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<p>4 - indicates a misunderstanding or oversimplification of the passage</p>

<p>:(</p>

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<p>Yeah I pretty much bombed the second essay too. I started it first because I was all like "Ooh! Rhetorical strategies! Those are easy" but then couldn't figure out how the hell to say what I wanted to say and so went to do the other ones and by the time I went back to #2 we had a minute left so I crossed out whatever I had put for my 2nd paragraph and half my thesis so it wouldn't be an incomplete essay. </p>

<p>CRAAAAAAAAAP. Oh well...</p>

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<p>mcz thank you...I can breathe now. I'll have a better idea of how I did on the essays when our english class discusses it but I was nervous that I would bomb the second one because I interpreted it wrong. I'm unsure of how they would take points off if the position developed in the essay is moderately well substantiated and delivered, but the interpretation was off. I hope they give the benefit of the doubt, because 40 minutes is really a ridiculous amount of time to read, interpret, and write an essay. Or 35 if you spent too long on the first one.</p>

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<p>So is the consensus that the max for a very well supported (although wrong interpretation of thesis) essay is a 4 out of 9?</p>

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<p>I think you could get a higher score. If you adequetly proved your point and it wasn't completely random. What did you say for the 2nd essay? If you can't say it IM me at xonicole143ox</p>

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<p>Misreads are at max a 2.</p>

<p>The second essay sucked! Freaking two sentences.</p>

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<p>ACTUALLY it was three haha. How did you misinterpret it? I'm guessing you didn't do as bad as you think.</p>

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<p>i said that <em>the title</em> is bad</p>

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<p>lol what? why would you argue the title sucks?</p>