<p>I agree the synthesis was awkwardly worded, but it allowed plenty of room for interpretation.</p>
<p>Were we allowed to take a side on the synthesis essay? Will I not get as many points if I did?</p>
<p>It didn’t really ask you to, so I think it’d be considered off-topic and not addressing the prompt.</p>
<p>i thought the MC was really hard…i don’t know why :…maybe it was because i was sleepy.</p>
<p>but i liked all of the essays (: even though i had to rush on the third one. lol i literally had to write 3 pages in 10 minutes for the last one.</p>
<p>for rhetorical devices FRQ I put
examples, appeals to logos and ethos, and that’s it</p>
<p>1.5 pages… what grade did I get out of 9</p>
<p>i did not get the synthesis essay…</p>
<p>i evaluated the viewpoint of the hippies (lol) and showed evidence to their point of view. i did not impose my own opinion but merely evaluated the pro’s of their lil hippie movement</p>
<p>was this the wrong way to go about it?</p>
<p>It seemed to me like the prompt was asking for the cons more than the pros. </p>
<p>BTW, I also liked the synthesis essay. It’s kind of an interesting topic, even though several of the sources showed that it doesn’t do much for the environment.</p>
<p>Definitely super easy…very straightforward multiple choice. Rhetorical strategies were really obvious on the rhetoric essay, and argument was pretty open to interpretation, aka easy…</p>
<p>Re: synthesis- you’ll be fine if you took a position, you’re supposed to. It would be pointless if you didn’t.</p>
<p>Okay good. I addressed the prompt question, but I also said that I agreed with the movement (I really don’t though).</p>
<p>MC was iffy for me. FRQ was rather easy…</p>
<p>It would have helped if my proctor didnt throw everyone off by saying stuff of the wrong time.</p>
<p>Just a question (not revealing anything here either haha) - in the synthesis essay, my thesis wasn’t that clearly developed by the end of my intro, but I had a definitive, strong thesis in the conclusion, after having developed the thesis (and pretty well, IMO) in the body paragraphs. </p>
<p>Does anyone think (or not) that the lack of that clear of a thesis in the intro will hurt me that much? I clearly took a side, it was just vague, and I didn’t have a definitive, specific argument laid out that referenced what I would discuss in the body paragraphs :/</p>
<p>Also, on a general sense - I thought the MCs were easy too - especially compared to SAT Literature last Saturday 
And I felt the essays were all relatively easy to write.</p>
<p>I destroyed this test, and I didn’t even know the format of the test, nor did I really pay attention this year since it’s my senior year, I’m almost 100% sure I got a 5 lol.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure asserting a side in the synthesis essay would mark points off. I did a practice essay on space exploration (same type of question), where it asked you to analyze the different types of discussion… I also remember the second set of instructions telling us to keep a “central focus” and not stray to one side.
On the practice essay, the only essays that received anything over a 6 were ones that were very central and not blatantly opinionated.</p>
<p>Haha that’s so weird; I did the space exploration one and I was positive the objective was to synthesize the sources while determining whether space exploration was worth it or not, basically…
Seems like our teachers were implying different things. :/</p>
<p>I’m fairly certain that you could have developed a position on the topic as long as you followed the prompt as well. I remember the synthesis essay for space exploration as well, and I remember the 9 essay we read had a position on the topic, but focused mainly on the issues regarding space exploration, rather than outright arguing for or against a side.</p>
<p>Okay just to make myself feel better I looked up some rubrics for synthesis essays online, I’m 99% sure you’re supposed to assert a position. Not necessarily hit the reader over the head with an in your face, offensive assertion but you’re definitely meant to take a side.</p>
<p>Some of the synthesis essays do indeed prompt you to take a side, such as the 2005 draft/sample: “Then, in an essay that synthesizes at least three of the sources for support, take a position that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that television has had a positive impact on presidential elections.”</p>
<p>Ours today definitely did not include the “defend, challenge, qualify” but it may have mentioned something that asked you to take a side. I’m not entirely sure, so I guess we’ll have to wait until Friday to know exactly what the prompt said.</p>
<p>In response to the above post, keep in mind that not all of them ask you to take a position… for example, 2010:
… It merely asks to evaluate. I’m pretty sure that’s what we had today.</p>
<p>for the analysis i used parallelism, appeal to ethos and an emphatic appeal’s to women’s suffrage. and for the synthesis i did end up taking a clear side. but every single ap synthesis essay says that your argument should be central. as long as you answered the task and determined the extent to which the task was true using your view you’ll be fine. the entire purpose of the ap essay is to take a stance. unbiased essays really dont say much about your attitude towards the topic.</p>
<p>@SeekingUni</p>
<p>I agree with what you said. My essay didn’t have a definitive position, it just addressed the issues we’d have to consider when dealing with the topic.</p>
<p>The thing that made the synthesis prompt strange, for me, was the word “issue”. </p>
<p>Looking up a precise definition gives:
“an important topic or problem for debate or discussion”</p>