AP English Language Post Test Discussion

<p>When the prompt asked “holds true TODAY”, did it specifically want 21st century? I used 1950’s/1960’s segregation/civil rights battles…</p>

<p>@givemeIVY I have a similar feeling…</p>

<p>It’s ironic how I’m Muslim but didn’t use any mosque example, and wrote a completely patriotic essay lol</p>

<p>I thought the argumentative essay was easy to oppose with all of the current events, luckily i know current events well.</p>

<p>I also qualified the synthesis essay because it was VERY awkwardly worded.</p>

<p>I thought “today” meant “right now” and wrote about tax cuts and other stuff :/</p>

<p>^That’s fine, as long as you wrote well.</p>

<p>The MC was not that difficult. I think I did best on the rhetorical analysis and synthesis essay. I was too burnt out at the end to think up concrete examples for my qualification so I just went with really generic things so I probably got a 5 on that.</p>

<p>@zach12 Yeah, that’s perfectly fine!</p>

<p>@impersonations I tend to qualify all of the essays on this test (both today and all the practices), because I’ve found that so rarely is something so black&white that just agreeing or disproving is sufficient. My teacher suggested that unless we have a dang good argument for absoluteness, we should err on the side of caution usually and choose to qualify. </p>

<p>Then again, that’s just how we learned it, so if you guys learned good methods of strictly agreeing/disproving, that could be just as legitimate.</p>

<p>Someone a while back said they had a lot of doubles in the multiple choice answer, I distinctly remember having like 4 pairs of doubles in the first 15 or so questions. Anyone else?</p>

<p>@notelitist The test seems so long ago that I can’t remember!</p>

<p>Yeah I had tons of doubles on the MC part</p>

<p>I can never remember the exact meaning of “implications” so when I saw the prompt today, I was just like “…*****.” Can someone give me an example of an implication of a community becoming a bunch of locavores?</p>

<p>i said an implication was that it hurts the stability of the global economy, can hurt businesses, etc</p>

<p>I talked about the possible effects that locavores could have on the environment, is that considered a global implication. Also, I wrote about the possible impact on the global economy. Those would count, right? Also, if your essay is seen as not addressing both parts of the question, do you get an automatic 2?</p>

<p>Not an automatic 2, I think you can get up to a 4 or 5. It’s safer to ATTEMPT to answer both parts, than to not answer at all. Attempting doesn’t hurt your score but only helps it.</p>

<p>What confused me was the the implications had to be on the community. I basically addressed that by presenting the locavores’ selling point (i.e. a key issue), a crapload of evidence saying that the locavores are stupid/wrong, and saying that the implication on the community is that they’ll realize that becoming a locavore isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. :P</p>

<p>What if I state the cons of the synthesis essay, but in the end qualify it by using other evidences?
For example (not going to be the locavore since we can’t discuss essays yet):
I’m not going to vote for Obama because he’s a bad politician. (not reflective of my political preferences, just for example sake) However, he does have a few good points, so if you like the good points, vote for him, but if not, don’t vote for him.</p>

<p>What exactly were “both parts of the question”?</p>

<p>I think both parts of the question meant talking about the key issues and the implications for the community.</p>