<p>I interpreted the synthesis prompt as wanting us to be somewhat neutral and look at both the pros and cons (obviously I went into more depth than just that). I was going to take a side, but it wasn’t evident to me that that’s what was wanted… Did anyone else do that?? </p>
<p>For the argumentative, I always find it hard writing about America and American history as a Canadian :p</p>
<p>And the analysis was the analysis, nothing unexpected and pretty straightforward.</p>
<p>@Rockinrobin: It’s interesting that foreign countries (although still in North America) get prompts like that… because I doubt American history (or present-day standings) are parts of the AP Lang curriculum in Canada. :p</p>
<p>It definitely makes it more difficult! But it wasn’t too specific, so I just used some general knowledge.
And no - it isn’t! :p</p>
<p>I thought foreign countries usually get Form B?</p>
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<li>Spent one night (the one before the exam) studying for about 2ish hours.</li>
<li>Slept at 3:30 in the morning because of a project.</li>
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<p>I hope I don’t jinx it by saying it like this but I think I did REALLY well on the AP Lang exam (comparatively: I normally fail really hard on mock AP Lang exams, but I actually did REALLY WELL on this one).</p>
<p>Breezed through most of the MC.</p>
<p>Wrote about 13 pages for the essays - which I thought were all pretty easy.</p>
<p>I should be more humble… but I was really excited especially since I’m more of a math person! :)</p>
<p>Lol I actually managed to bring up Osama bin Laden in the last essay…</p>
<p>@rockinrobin = that’s exactly what i did too. I’m scared that I’ll get a 2 because I didn’t take a clear side. how about you?</p>
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All of North America is form 4HBP, other foreign countries are Form B.</p>
<p>does it count if you implicitly respond to parts of the prompt?</p>
<p>@NuclearMatches lol I didn’t even know I had studying resources until I woke up this morning and the packet we’d apparently been given 2 weeks ago fell out of my backpack while I was digging around for my wallet. But thankfully, I got to sleep around 2:30 last night (comparatively, I can sometimes be up until 4 or so due to a combination of homework and insomnia. ***** Jr year!). But I won’t say I breezed through anything today; I certainly took my sweet time. I do think I did somewhere between fair(ish) and well, though (hopefully! lol).</p>
<p>did anyone else seem to have few e’s? I also had quite a few doubles (as in AA, then CC, or BB)?
not saying those are my answers to the multiple choice, just that I like those letters!</p>
<p>for the last essay, I did 9/11 and the discord in unity afterward, with the whole mosque debate.</p>
<p>breezed through whole test, and fell asleep during last essay for 30 minutes, literally didn’t have any examples but just restated the prompt… 
hoping for 7-7-3 on essays maybe…
but MC was pretty easy except for the third reading</p>
<p>SOO easy! gooodness, the MC was a piece of cake compared to practice ones, and the FRQs were AMAZING!</p>
<p>frq 1: hahaha i’m so into nutrition and health so I breezed through it, using lots of outside info from my own readings and personal experience. i went and refuted all the ones that said it was bad 
frq 2: easy, talked about repetition, appeals to emotion and a feeling of pity/shame…
frq 3: cited gov’t problems, terrorism, economic downturn, discrimination due to ignorance … (muslims specifically)</p>
<p>is it just me or did APUSH help with the aplac test a LOT this year?</p>
<p>@drinksuited, NOOOOOOOOOO I talked about the mosque debate too, this means that we talked about the right thing but if the graders see this a lot they might get bored with it.</p>
<p>After reading this, I feel like I experienced the opposite of everyone else. I thought the MC was pretty easy, expecting at least 40+ on it. The justice one was kinda confusing. The synthesis essay, for me, was the easiest and best one. I did the analysis last, and totally rushed through it. I don’t think I did that great. I barely thought the Paine one out and probably came across as extremely patriotic as I agreed that it was still the case in the US today.
One question - for the Paine essay, I didn’t really use specific examples, I just focused on the multiculturalism in the US, how you can see people wearing crosses, Muslim hijabs, Sikh turbans and Jewish yarmulkes on the street freely, and social welfare benefits for the poor. Do you guys think that would be enough to get a 6?</p>
<p>Haha about half my class used the mosque debate.
I used really general examples like political parties and segregated neighborhoods or something, and everyone else seems to have used really specific current events. Is that bad? The last essay had the most “voice” of all my essays though</p>
<p>@BamBammxx I did the same thing in the Paine essay. I think we’ll be okay, at least I’m hoping we’ll be okay!</p>
<p>Still, if you want to get a 4, and you think you did pretty well on the MC, all you needed to get on the essays was an average of 5. Based off some of the past essays I have read, you don’t have to be that great at writing to get a 5.</p>
<p>@painty i also used segregated neighborhoods like the 96th street line boundary of the upper east side of manhattan (look it up) to show the inequalities that are a result of racial and economic backgrounds.</p>
<p>My argument essay was mostly a comparison of mid-19th, mid-20th, and present-day America in relation to Paine. And I stuck in (what seems to be really popular) stuff about Muslims and 9/11 and the mosque. Would that work?</p>