I need to mow my lawn.
MC felt easy? First essay was lol I was gone.
MC was eh it was pretty much what I expected which isn’t great but it could have been worse. FRQs 2 & 3 felt really good to me but FRQ 1 was probably the worst essay I’ve ever wrote before. Sorry in advance to ever has to read that one LOL
I’m thinking I got around a 3 but I need a 4 or a 5 to get college credit so that’s a bummer. Oh well we’ll see!
MC was semi easy $$$. It could’ve gone better, there were some things I was unsure about.
FRQ 1: I think I got parts of it, but not sure if I hit the mark all the way
FRQ 2: SUPER FIREEEE IM P SURE THIS ONE CARRIES ALL MY FRQS
FRQ 3: ehhhh. Started to summarize in the beginning, almost ran out of time, I don’t think I addressed the prompt in it’s entirety, but it wasn’t terrible (I wrote about TGG btw).
Overall: definitely at least a 4. If I get a 5, I won’t be too surprised.
MC was great in the beginning, but it progressively got harder on the later passages. By the last passage, I was beat.
FRQ 1: Struggled with it a bit, but I think I did really well with it by the end! I feel like there was not enough evidence in the poem in order to answer the question, but I think I managed well overall.
FRQ 2: Easy!!! I did a practice question like this a few weeks ago about a father and son’s relationship, so this one was a breeze for me.
FRQ 3: I wrote about the play “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen! I noticed it was one of the mentioned works to write about, but they said “A Doll House” which is incorrect. Thank god the question was what it was since I went in memorizing two essays I wrote about “A Doll’s House” and Invisible Man, and both worked really well with this prompt, so I breezed through this one as well.
Overall, I am praying I did well, but MC may bring me down to a 2 or something. 
The test was easier than I expected. I didn’t take the class (I’m in IB English) but it wasn’t hard, luckily. It was easier than AP Lang and I got a 5 on that so I’m expecting to do well on this one too. I liked the grass cutting poem, haha (although I had to read it multiple times to interpret it correctly.) The juggling one was a fun one to write about, too. I wrote about Beloved for the open question. I was debating between that and Hamlet and A Doll’s House but I chose *Beloved because it was the most recent one I read.
@aznboi4981 From Wikipedia: “The title of the play is most commonly translated as A Doll’s House, though some scholars use A Doll House”
Multiple choice was hella easy. Would be blown away to get more than three wrong. Poetry (juggler) essay was so easy it was somehow my best essay?? I usually do better on prose. Second and third essays were fine but super disorganized, unfortunately. Made the mistake of rushing because I had the wrong end time in my head for some reason.
I ran out of time for the MCQ sigh. I thought it was easier than practice tests that I took, but one of the poems (I think we all know which one) was frustrating.
Q1 was so confusing lol. I absolutely hated reading it and ended up writing a horribly, incoherent essay on it. I thought the Q2 passage was easy to analyze but didn’t have much substance to write a deep argument about. The first half of my Q3 essay was bad but was really good in the second half.
I probably got a 3 or a 4 lol. I wasn’t expected a 5, though.
MC was ok for me…but my FRQs were probably my stronger points
FRQ 1: Ok, think i fully answered the prompt
FRQ 2: I guess a bit better than Q1.
FRQ 3: May have summarized a bit, but went into good detail about the character. Chose Invisible Man.
@photogeek8 You ended up writing a horrible, incoherent essay about question 1 because it was a horribly incoherent poem to begin with. I think the writer was trying to come off as profound but instead just failed miserably. Literally no clue what he was trying to get at.
I used barrons to prep for mcq, and test way easier. The ooems were clear.
Frq 1 was hard, but after reading an analysis after the test, it makes sense
Frq 2 was good, i think.
Frq 3 was probably my best work.
My teacher assigned an essay due on tuesday, the day before the exam. Ikr??? I thought she messed up, but I ended up using that for my 3rd essay, essentially regurgitating my essay.
I was hoping for a 3-4 but im actually confident in getting a four and possibly a five if my mcq guesses were on point.
MC: First passage was easy, second one was ok, it essentially increased in difficulty the further I got in the test. The FRQ 1: At first I was like, “What did I just read”, but after 15 minutes of pondering, I think I actually put together a pretty reasonable essay
FRQ 2: I felt like the passage was easy to comprehend, my essay felt kind of weak, but it answered the question
FRQ 3: The prompt was simple, but I felt that I spent too much time summarizing.
The Multiple choice were easier than I expected (though I usually bomb this section).
Poetry essay: I feel that i had pretty good analysis.
Prose: I felt liked I BS a lot of this, the story itself was pretty literal
Book essay: Felt good but not great, wrote about Tess
Overall Im hopping for a 4, it was easier than AP Lang last year (which i received a 3).
I used The Importance of Being Earnest for the third essay. Funny, cause I didn’t expect to have to use it at all.
Again with the blaming the text for your own preferences and weaknesses. We’ve been through this before–just because you don’t like something (or fail to understand it, like the DH Lawrence excerpt in the other thread) doesn’t mean it’s “incoherent” or poorly written. Literary theory and criticism is a well developed field and “I don’t like it so it’s not good” isn’t a tenable stance.
I wrote about how the juggler was god-like/master like to the speaker, yikes 
apparently it was actually about God.
***FRQs are now posted on the collegeboard website
I really liked the Juggler poem. There was plenty of material to work with if you identified the God parallel.
I feel like my AP grader for my first essay is going think I was high (which I was obviously not) bc that is how off my analysis was lol
At first for the juggler poem I couldn’t think of anything but I ended up going with the god parallel too.
@Kitsyxoxo what was your analysis?