<p>Why Thursday? Right after Calculus! :(</p>
<p>The multiple choice is going to suck for me. The only thing stopping me from getting a good score.</p>
<p>I dunno. If I can get away with only missing 15 questions on the MC, I can rape my essay and get a 4 or 5 :)</p>
<p>Does anyone have a released exam? I’ve done practise MC in class, but I’ve hard our teacher gives us the hardest ones to prepare us better, so I want to do one where I actually have an accurate idea of what the curve is.</p>
<p>For me the MC is pretty easy-- it’s the essays that I’m worried about. Under normal circumstances I don’t think they would be difficult, but I have a bit of a problem with writing at a shockingly slow pace and consequently finishing essays that are of good quality is a problem. To get a 5 one can miss about 10 MC questions and get 7, 7, 6 on the essays. That’s a terrible curve :/</p>
<p>^What I do to save time on essays is write only 2 body paragraphs instead of 3. It also saves me from wasting precious minutes in prewriting trying to think of the 3rd example of a technique or something.</p>
<p>You guys got any other tips? Especially for analyzing poetry?</p>
<p>ya does anybody have any tips on poetry?</p>
<p>Does anyone have tips for answering poetry questions, especially when you don’t understand the poem!! What do you do in this situation? </p>
<p>And, how hard do they grade the essays? What is the average score?</p>
<p>I am not worried about the essay but I worries about the multiple choice.</p>
<p>I was having a conversation with some friends today and it was kind of shocking to hear that a lot people read poems by pausing at line breaks. Pause whenever you see a punctuation! Some poems are nice and have natural pauses at line breaks, but you should pause wherever the sentence calls for it.</p>
<p>I’m worried about the 3rd frq prompt; what if I get a prompt that matches none of my works? :/</p>
<p>can’t you choose a book of “literary merit” that isnt on the list?</p>
<p>[SparkNotes:</a> To Kill a Mockingbird](<a href=“http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/]SparkNotes:”>To Kill a Mockingbird: Study Guide | SparkNotes)
[SparkNotes:</a> The Great Gatsby](<a href=“http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/]SparkNotes:”>The Great Gatsby: Study Guide | SparkNotes)
[SparkNotes:</a> Macbeth](<a href=“http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth]SparkNotes:”>Macbeth: Study Guide | SparkNotes)
[SparkNotes:</a> 1984](<a href=“http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984]SparkNotes:”>1984: Study Guide | SparkNotes)</p>
<p>Read a couple of those and I’m sure they can be stretched to fit any prompt.</p>
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<p>Make up a work (perhaps from East Asia since fewer graders will be familiar with East Asian literature). Pray that you don’t get caught blowing smoke.</p>
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<p>I was actually thinking of writing about the Arabic classic “The Desert” by al-Habir.</p>
<p>If your prompt for Q3 does not directly relate to the works you have read, get creative. View characters in ways different from what you have done before. One of my classmates used a character (Melquides) in the book we read (One Hundred Years of Solitude) as a mentor figure for the patriarch of the family despite traditional views of him being more of a enlightened character. </p>
<p>Also, I know it is too late, but books such as The Great Gatsby and Ulysses have almost everything about life in the books. Post-colonialism, feminist theory, etc…</p>
<p>I’m more than definitely using The Great Gatsby, and hopefully I can use Pride and Prejudice for the prompt. Either two will work. I loved those books.</p>
<p>Hey guys. After today, I am more pumped then ever before. I realized that a 3 is well within my grasp- shooting for the 4.</p>
<p>I’m really worried if I am going to pass or not. Does anyone know the “requirements” to get a 3? Multiple choice-wise?</p>
<p>I haven’t studied or even looked at a released exam or AP book. My teacher acts like no one is taking the AP test because of the huge waste of money “dual enrollment” system. Well, she is pretty much right; I’m the only student of her ~100 who is taking the exam. That being said, I never studied a single bit for Eng Lang and got a 5. But this MC will probably be considerably harder since I never know what poems are talking about. I’ll just write good essays.</p>
<p>You can use the same general 3-4 classics to answer any prompt you get.</p>