<p>I ****ed up.</p>
<p>aw damn does that mean that the curve is gonna be high since everbody is saying that it was easy?
i thought the MC sucked but the essays were fine</p>
<p>Hm, I used Heathcliff and Edgar in Wuthering Heights....not sure if Edgar's a minor character, oh well.</p>
<p>i thought it was hard</p>
<p>Both Reisz and Madame Ratignolle work well.</p>
<p>I used Ratignolle, but Reisz was definitely another one. Although she didn't parallel Edna as much as a typical foil would.</p>
<p>I did good on the MC, but I only fully understood the Rafael one on the second pass and went back and changed all my answers for that question. I did the open ended first, using Sometimes a Great Notion (Lee's not a minor character but whatever...). I contemplated the question because I read it when we tore out the pages, so I had like 10 extra minutes to think about it. that one probably got a 7-8 or so. The poetry essay was okay, prob like 7 on that one. my prose essay was terrible... like a 4. i made up some crap about nature and how america rapes the forests or something. I realized just as the proctor called time that i spelled the indian guy's name wrong- i changed the "r" to an "n" and added an "e" at the end. oops. I think i also called the second poet by another famous poet's name. haha oops :)</p>
<p>The mc was a lot easier than I was expecting (I normally suck at mc questions). The bombed the writing, though. I started with the third because I had some really good ideas and planning for it (Catcher in the Rye, man), but I kept running into dead ends with it. The other essays went down from there. I think I got a 3.</p>
<p>I got a 4 on AP lang last year, though. And my college won't give me any different English credits for this test, so I didn't have much to lose.</p>
<p>anyone else think that when Mrs. Patton was singin, "Summertime, when the living's easy" it was a reference to Doin' time by Sublime? that woke me up.</p>
<p>wow, i feel like there's going to be a huge curve...i'm really scared b/c its probably going to be really hard to get a 4/5 even doing well</p>
<p>she said Summertime, when the living is easy</p>
<p>not Sublime</p>
<p>but yea the song was in my head the rest of the time</p>
<p>haha when mrs. patton flashed him her "lipsticked smile", i immediately thought she was trying to hook up with him or something. it sounded dirty lol.</p>
<p>I KNOW i thought sexual too</p>
<p>but then i went back to my concept of him being their ***** and servant</p>
<p>i meant it was strikingly similar to the sublime song... the real one says and and not when... but okay</p>
<p>OMG. I cannot believe I didn't think of Adele and Edna for the third response! I wrote a whole essay about them earlier in the year! <em>headdesk</em></p>
<p>But to all the people saying "I did two major characters"... I did too. I thought it would be better to talk about two characters who I felt I understood pretty well than to BS my way around a minor character thing, you know?</p>
<p>I used Hamlet for the third. I thought I did pretty well on the first and third essays, which I did the first. I was left with about 30 minutes to do the second translating to 25 minutes to write the essay. I thought multiple choice was pretty easy, especially compared the practice tests we did in class that were just killer. </p>
<p>I know for sure I passed with at least a 3. I'm hoping for a 5 but I think I'll get a 4 and maybe a 5 if I'm lucky.</p>
<p>For #3, anyone else do Things Fall Apart? Okonkwo and his father??</p>
<p>I did Macbeth and Banquo for the free response. Banquo isn't a minor character, so they might dock me, but what the hell. I probably should have done Hamlet and Laertes, in retrospect.</p>
<p>I thought the MC was moderate (Rafael poem was nasty), the first prompt was decent, and the second was pretty easy. I figure if I missed 10-15 on MC (omitted one) and got 7-8-7 on the essays, I might pull off a 5.</p>
<p>I contrasted Wickham and Darcy but didn't really focus on the fact that Wickham was more of a minor character than Darcy.</p>
<p>Whatever. I hope I can still get a 5. If you lose like 7-8 points on the MCQ, and get say, a 7, 7 and an 8 for your essays, do I have any chance?</p>
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<p>haha, I did a really weird essay on contrastive reality -- the reality of Arun, represented in the third person [indicatively], the idealistic (non)reality of his host country, and the "dramatic irony" reality of the reader. I don't know how it will be judged.</p>
<p>As expected, I was annoyed that we didn't have more time for the MC. I find it ridiculous that they can't just give us a little more time. All the passages and questions were, thankfully, easier than I expected, but I still felt very rushed, and that may end up influencing my score (luckily it didn't influence my score with AP Lang last year, but I'm worried that I rushed more on this one).</p>
<p>I was surprised at the first two essays, though: usually I have no problem with the essays, but these were tougher than I expected. I guess that balances with the MC. I also began with the third. That must've been the easiest free write they've ever had. I used Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.</p>
<p>At least I have the piece of mind knowing that my college won't count my score regardless, and even if it did I already have the AP Eng. score. It's a good feeling to go in there only taking the test for personal satisfaction.</p>
<p>@ Galoisien: I'm pretty sure that's quite probably a 5.</p>
<p>There's one question that bothered me ... </p>
<p>Was the sound of a cue-bird owl intended to rhyme with toot or few?</p>
<p>I was going to apply my historical linguistics knowledge and argue that the poem was written before the merger of /y/ into /ju/, and thus "cue" would have been closer to "toot" in the poet's day but then I realised the AP examiners probably weren't historical linguists, even in the English language. So I went with, "few" even though that wasn't the answer I believed to be true.</p>
<p>Phonological</a> history of English high back vowels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>