<p>Hey everyone, never too early to start preparing! Well to be honest I am motivated after finding out I got a four on the APUSH...... sooooo anyway what review books to you all recommend, and please don't say kaplan. They screwed me with a four. Any tips on the exam itself? What is the structure ( a x mc questions in b x minutes. c x frqs in d x time)?</p>
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<p>princeton review practice exams were by far the hardest ones i’ve come across (if i remember correctly). </p>
<p>for mc, just practice, practice, practice (maybe start in february: take a practice mc test once every two weeks or so. as ap exams near, maybe take a practice mc exam once a week - don’t kill yourself with them! MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU GOT WRONG AND WHY!)</p>
<p>first off, please don’t assume two things:
- Your exam score is bad. A four is excellent, so stop whining. Schools rarely put AP scores into consideration when admitting you. And even if they do, a four is beyond passing; its excelling.
- Kaplan “screwed you over.” If you got a four (which, I maintain is excellent, but for the sake of hypotheticals, lets only assume that a 4 is horrible and a 5 is great) it wasn’t the book. It was you. Get over that you werent in the top percentile for one exam, and move on.</p>
<p>Now that that’s over with, 5 steps to a 5 has two pretty awesome things. One, it has the normal study prep book; and two, it has a mini “500 MC questions” book so you can get that extra MC help!</p>
<p>Don’t use Princeton’s… The teacher gave me that one to use and there are many questions about obscure literary techniques such as polysyndetons…</p>
<p>I used the Barron’s AP Language & Composition book and I wasn’t particularly crazy about their practice exams or the way they explained wrong answers, so if you want the best practice, I’d go with either 5 Steps to a 5 or Princeton Review. Princeton Review is challenging but it’s thorough, offers trenchant explanations to incorrect answers, and since it throws the hardest questions at you, you aren’t blindsided when you take the actual test.</p>
<p>TEST DATE:
Week 2
Wed. May 16, 2012 8 a.m.</p>
<p>Good luck everybody!
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<p>I actually didn’t study at all outside of my class (save for one Barron’s practice test to ease my anxiety the night before) because it was quite rigorous and my teacher was awesome, but here are the aspects of my class that I think got me to a 5:</p>
<ol>
<li>2 practice tests a month (my teacher used 5 steps to a 5 most frequently)</li>
<li>read The Scarlet Letter, Grapes of Wrath, Frederick Douglass’ autobiography, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, The Sun Also Rises, and a variety of samples from other literary works and memorize unfamiliar vocabulary (also relevant to CR)</li>
<li>around 6 in-class essays + 4 typed essays per semester</li>
</ol>
<p>Your class is the best form of studying if your teacher is any good. Don’t skimp on the assigned readings. Be meticulous about your assignments, particularly your essays. Keep in mind that your writing scores will count for more than your MC, so don’t spend all your time studying the latter. Best of luck!</p>
<p>^ lol that sounds pretty similar to my class except different readings… Lots of vocab, essays, and practice mc! I got a 5 too :)</p>
<p>I’m taking it this upcoming year. Got a 4 on my APUSH, which is not the best, but I’m happy with it. </p>
<p>I met the teacher for the class beforehand, seems like he’s going to push us hard and knows his stuff. Let’s hope I get a 5 this time. :D</p>
<p>i hear my teacher is horrible. Too easy, everyone gets an A, but AP scores are all over the place…i’ll look into 5 steps to a 5 and princeton review. Thanks all!</p>
<p>I heard that cliffnotes is great</p>
<p>This is defiantly going to be my toughest AP this year, but I’m sure we can work together and help each other out!</p>
<p>The AP Language exam is actually pretty easy as long as you can interpret text well. Take plenty of AP practice exams, which is what my teacher did. All of our tests were past AP Exams and he graded them based on an AP scale. All your teacher can really teach you is how to analyze rhetoric and various terms on how to describe rhetoric. I can’t really remember how many multiple choice questions there were and how much time there was, but I finished it all within 10-15 minutes of time left and I’m a relatively quick test taker. You must be able to improve your reading speed before you take the test, if you’re a slow reader then well…
There will be three essays for you to write, an argumentative essay, analytical essay, and a synthesis essay. You’ll only get around 30 minutes per essay.
The best way to prepare for it is to just practice, practice, and practice.</p>
<p>Hii! Mega bump but anyway , I’m not an English native speaker so this test presents q challenge for me. I loathe the multiple choice and well I have been practicing for quite some time. First, I got 18 wrong, then 16 , them 12" and now 8 on a practice test college board gives you at AP central. I love the essays ! I Truro think the synthesis and argumentative essays as if it were my time to speak in a heated debate and I have to show off my arguments and present my reasoning , fro some reason, thinking like this has helped me a lot I do t know why. Finlly I write my rhetorical analysis usually focusimg on 3 of the following: tone and diction, rhetorical modes, literary terms, classical appeals, or rhetorical fallacies. Anyway with the multiple,e choice this is my advice : read as fast as possible while taking notes on the margi. About shifts in tone and literary devices, this well you wit questions th,at ask all of the following devices are present except. Also, after reading, answer the questions that ask about meaning and making inferences, then, answer those that require you to look at sentences specifically, those mat detract you from the main idea if done first!</p>
<p>how’d you guys do on the exam? the mc was alright but the argumentative essay was hard! :(</p>
<p>Argument essay was… okay. It was more dull than anything else.</p>
<p>Now that MC… the last passage basically killed me.</p>
<p>The last MC passage was so awful and I was running out of time too! I wanted to cry 
I really really hope I got a 4, but who knows :/</p>
<p>That last passage? HAH! I had about 10 minutes left to read the whole thing and complete the questions. I still don’t understand what it was talking about…</p>
<p>We got a badass^</p>