<p>How long were everybody’s essays?</p>
<p>Haha, I think my second one was the worst too, because I wrote it last and run out of time. And because I wasn’t sure what to write about.</p>
<p>3-4 pages.</p>
<p>3 pages each for me.</p>
<p>I probably got a 7 for the first essay, a 6 on the second and a 5 on the last. Then I think I missed about 12 on the frq section. I’m pretty sure that’s a solid 4. Cliffs is telling me thats a 5, but I don’t want to get too confident.</p>
<p>3 pages for the third one, two and half for the first one, and two pages for the second one.</p>
<p>Wow, how did you have time to write that many pages? Normal sized handwriting?</p>
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Hell ya I murdered essay #3 talking about the man’s alienation from the past (pre-catastrophe) world and how it was necessary to develop McCarthy’s theme about preserving human morality in a corrupt and evil world.</p>
<p>*I probably should have done Poisonwood bible for #3 since my teacher had us read/discuss that book for the last month of class and my entire school probably used it lol. However I never really liked that book…its themes are rather…well…boring and The Road’s themes are more complex and describe how humans behave (in certain situations).</p>
<p>Mine were 2 1/2, 3 1/2, and almost 4. I have normal sized handwriting. The line spaces in the booklet are wider than a regular college ruled.</p>
<p>Has anyone red Pudd’nhead Wilson (Mark Twain)? I seriously considered doing this for #3 but thought that it wouldn’t be of literary merit…probably would have been better than the Iliad</p>
<p>first essay - talked about how the quilt is a concrete embodiment of her heritage and childhood memories. Said she carries the reader from past to present to future showing the readers the permanence and longstanding value of culture. </p>
<p>second essay - didn’t totally understand it… I said his social possessions and seeming arrogance are futile when one rejects the supposition that social class = self worth. Talked about how his inability to “acquire” Belinda becomes his disillusioning factor.</p>
<p>third essay - Wrote about Wuthering Heights and how Heathcliff’s exile is not so much an enriching experience for him as it is for the second generation of characters - said how his exile and the negative (or positive) consequences of it brings reconciliation between the two moral values as symbolized by Wuthering heights and thrushcross grange. </p>
<p>the multiple choice was okay … I didn’t like the first poem, but the rest were easy.</p>
<p>for the first passage of multiple choice, did anyone else feel like the man was actually going to die?</p>
<p>Yeah, wasn’t that the point?</p>
<p>no! that wasn’t the point! I almost cry with that, she had to arrive on time!</p>
<p>nope…the song passage we;re talking about not the running.</p>
<p>He wasn’t actually dying?
Was he not telling his love that their love was eternal?
Or did I entirely miss the point, and death was really some extended metaphor of how their love is dying, but he’s just reassuring her with a bunch of nonsense.
What?</p>
<p>Anyways, I wrote a full three pages for the essay one and two, and a full four for essay three. I write average-sized, leaning on smaller. I tend to write a lot for everything. Trying to fit in all I can (but not to the point where it’s all fluff)!</p>
<p>The multiple choice was the easiest thing ever. It was easier than the critical reading passages on the SAT! For essay #1 I probably got 1 5/6, #2 definite 4… the question was so ambiguous >.< and the last essay I’m hoping for a 6/7… wrote about The Awakening. </p>
<p>So if I skipped two questions on the multiple choice, and answered 80% correctly, and got 5/4/7 on the essays, where would put me? A 4?</p>
<p>According to my Cliffnotes AP Eng Lit book, that would put you at a 101/150, which is a 5.</p>
<p>The scoring chart they use for a 55 MC + 3 Essays=</p>
<p>[(# correct)-.25(# wrong)] x 1.25 = MC Score
[ (Essay 1 Score) + (Essay 2 Score) +(Essay 2 Score)] x 3.055 = Essay Score</p>
<p>Essay Score + MC Score = [some number]/150</p>
<p>150-100 = 5
99-86 = 4
85-67 = 3
66-0 = 1/2</p>
<p>Nevertheless, this curve seems awfully generous to me… 
I’m hoping it is like this, because then a 5 seems considerably more attainable.</p>
<p>the second passage in multiple choice, the one about the guy who was scowling at the sleepy houses and the people living like mice in kitchens, was from My Antonia by Willa Cather. it was so crazy because we literally JUST read that in lit. as in i just finished it last week. except it wasn’t my whole class, it was just a group of four of us. during the break we all just sat and laughed with each other. what are the odds?</p>
<p>and then the open question listed my antonia as one of the options. even more crazy. although i didnt use it, i did candide. anyone else do candide?</p>
<p>^ 
Candide would have been great! I ended up doing Jane Eyre. But the whole basis of Candide would have been supported by this prompt instead of just a fraction of the book like in Jane Eyre.</p>