AP English Lit on Thursday

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<p>Does anyone have any good advice for the essays? Our teacher has given us TONS of practices, and she’s been an AP grader for about as long as I’ve been alive, so I have a pretty good idea of where I’m currently sitting. I usually miss about 10 MC, so I’m within 5 range if I can compensate on the essays, but I have a really tough time with that. I average around 5.5, which puts me at a 4. A 5 would be really nice…</p>

<p>@Kairos: Your teacher was an AP Reader, so you’re well-prepared and should have great advice already - In contrast, my teacher’s grading is completely inconsistent and based on whose paper she’s grading.</p>

<p>ok help me!!! I have read and analyzed hamlet for the open essay tomorrow. do you guys think hamlet will be flexible enough to fit any essay prompt?? I have also looked over great gatsby and the glass menagerie but not in as much detail.</p>

<p>for the ones having problems with the poem essay (that would include me), i reviewed the princenton review and it gave me a formula to apply to those essays.</p>

<p>1) read poem
2)what is speaker saying literally and then figuratively
3) what emotions does the poem invoke
4) what is the theme
5) how does the author get the theme across
6) if all else fails write about imagery</p>

<p>i’m aiming for a 6 on all three essays and a 40 on MC, that should get me a 4. good luck to everyone</p>

<p>@Hum04Me17</p>

<p>If it’s anything like our practice questions, you should be fine. You can really bend the question to fit anything with sufficient amounts of content, and Hamlet is more than sufficient. It helps me to remind myself that if the question is asking for a character, you don’t have to default to the protagonist. We did a class essay for Hamlet, and some of our best scores came from people who wrote on Claudius or Ophelia. Best of luck to you, too!</p>

<p>@Kairos
thanks :)</p>

<p>I got a 4 on the Language last year. So I’m hoping to get at least 4 on this one. Ironically, the he open response questions where you have to choose a book is the most difficult for me.</p>

<p>Garfieldliker “^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>I always used to do the same thing as well. I find that it is actually better to write just 2 body paragraphs because you can elaborate more on your points, which makes up for the missing 3rd paragraph.</p>

<p>I DID IT! I just finished an hour ago. Soooooooo relieved. I was so worry about the open essay, but it worked perfectly with my favorite work. Yay!</p>

<p>I really want a good score on this test. I never want to take another English class and with a 4, I’ll never have to :)</p>

<p>I thought my essays were really good but the multiple choice killed me. Not really a suprise there. I think I over thought the multiple choice passages when I should not have.</p>

<p>I liked the essays but hated the MC. One particular passage was pretty awful, and I guessed on most of the questions for that section. I’ll probably get a 4.</p>

<p>Did you notice that all the passages seemed from the early 1900’s or before? That drove me crazy! I thought they would at least give 1 passage from the late 1900’s.</p>

<p>i hated the frog poem so much holy ****</p>

<p>I thought the MC went as expected, if not a little better. I’m worried that my essays were not up to par. Regardless, I’m happy with the overall turnout :)</p>

<p>I thought the MC was overall easy and the essays were fine except I forgot to write about how it “illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole” so i will get major points off for that. I thought the poem was really easy and I think my essay was really really good there. The prose was a little tricky for me; I couldn’t figure out what to write about for pages lol.</p>

<p>Expecting:</p>

<p>Multiple Choice: 43-50/55
Poem Essay: 7-8
Prose Essay: 5-6
Open-ended essay: 4-5</p>

<p>Overall: Bottom, 43 MC 7/5/4 =101.7 = 4
Top 50 MC/8/6/5 = 119.4 = 5</p>

<p>So pretty confident i got at least a 4 :D</p>

<p>Did anyone get what were the so called complex emotions the first prompt was talking about? The one with the dude with his desire to bring ruin to desire?</p>

<p>All I got was that he wanted to destroy desire, he was originally a victim himself, and that before he knew of desire’s traps he was happy and what not.</p>

<p>Anyone else have a different interpretation?</p>

<p>The grief MC passage killed me…I misinterpreted it completely</p>

<p>Desire poem was pretty tough to write an essay on. </p>

<p>Other two free responses were pretty easy.</p>

<p>Btw, is writing 2 and a half pages sufficient? On the last essay I only got to write 2 pages due to time constraints</p>

<p>xD</p>

<p>I got like 3 1/2 pages for the last prompt, 1 pages for the first prompt(poem), and 2 1/2 pages for second prompt</p>

<p>The grief passage seemed really easy xD Like how those that grieve over the ones they lost by grieving in silent, but those who truly don’t know despair grieve with shouts towards the sky? xD</p>

<p>I absolutely crushed MC. Much easier than expected. GD the practice tests that scare the crap out of me. At least 45 correct, possibly as high as 50. </p>

<p>1st prompt was easy to write about, discussed the obvious poetic techniques and just described what he was saying using big words. A page and a half.</p>

<p>2nd prompt was kind of tough to write about because I honestly didn’t think there was that much characterization going on. Wrote about how she was passive aggressive due to lack of knowledge and very curious in general, then discussed the metaphor of tools to literacy. 2 pages.</p>

<p>3rd prompt was a godsend. 1984 is the only book I’ve actually read this past year and my favorite book of all time. It was 1984 or bust and it was like they created the prompt for 1984.</p>