<p>Done! The MC wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. But I don't think I did well on the essays : (</p>
<p>Oh thank god i think i aced this thing. MC was incredible easy compared to the practice test i was taking and I know i aced essay 2 and i think i did good enough on the other 2.</p>
<p>Was the test okay then? My D is in process of taking it. She was sick during the night, hardly slept, not well today and she has two APs today, both essay heavy.
Would be nice to know Language wasn't too bad.</p>
<p>Haha weird I feel like the essay I wrote for 2 was one of the worst I've written in my life. For some reason I couldn't remember the name of one of the literary devices and wasted so much time =p</p>
<p>The other two, especially the 3rd, I think I did good. But the 2nd I think will pull my score down.</p>
<p>Sequioa that doesn't sound good! I was very sleepy and was sick last night too. I think if I'd slept better I would've done better- the essay section is two hours long. So it's very tough if you're tired.
Hopefully she did ok though.</p>
<p>I thought the first passage on the multiple choice was awful but everything else was pretty good.</p>
<p>Did anyone else think that the open ended essay was just a little odd? I mean, of all the issues they could discuss, THAT seemed the most important? Realistically, how could you even incorporate outside info into that?</p>
<p>yeah, people didn't really like the first passage -- but quite honestly i didn't think it was too bad.</p>
<p>i think that my first and third essay were good. I started to run out of time for the second one (i did my essays out of order and saved the second one for last) but i still finished it and wrote a conclusion.</p>
<p>I agree, the MC was SIGNIFICANTLY easier than it is on any practice test (and i've taken many in class). It was much more like SAT CR reading which I can pretty much get an 800 on without stressing.</p>
<p>the only thing scaring me at this point is I hear that this test has a harsh curve. But apparently the national average for the essays is like a 2.</p>
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<p>I kinda see what you mean.. the only outside info i incorporated was about my own personal experience... which was <em>true</em> (however, i significantly exaggerated). haha</p>
<p>i hope that the AP gods are nice to us this year =)</p>
<p>I was taken back by the first MC passage, other than that, it was mostly bearable..</p>
<p>I thought the MC for the first passage was hard, too... the rest of the MC was alright, I guess. The essays seemed pretty fair. But my open-ended argument essay was probably the weakest one. I had good points, but I didn't have enough time to develop them intelligently.</p>
<p>Good-I hope this positive vibe continues.</p>
<p>I thought it was easy. The passages were easy to read and I actually kind of liked them. One of the passages also happened to be one we analyzed in class. The first two essays were fine, but I didn't like the third. It wasn't hard, just boring. It seemed more typical of an ACT/SAT prompt.</p>
<p>Back from school. I thought the MC was just like the practice tests...not too easy not too hard....I think the essays were all pretty easy also. Except I think the 2nd one will pull my score down a bit.</p>
<p>The test wasn't that bad- It was the first MCQ section that was bad.</p>
<p>The first MC section was not that bad. IT was a difficult read but the questions were really easy.</p>
<p>Agreed....MC was much easier than any practice exam I took. The synthesis essay was really weird; the other two were fine.</p>
<p>Really? I thought the synthesis was easy, and the mc I skipped 10. xD</p>
<p>Overall, both parts of the test were easy. When my class took the practice exams, we were all freaked out that we were going to fail, but those practice exams were the ones that helped make this test so easy in the first place.</p>
<p>FRQ were really easy. I thought that the Synthesis essay topic was pretty cool; it certainly wasn't something that I thought they would ask, but the sources they gave us made the essay writing a piece of cake. The other two questions were quite simple also.</p>
<p>I almost thought that the FRQs were too simplistic. It was somewhat difficult to develop a complex thesis and a strong argument on topics that were so one-dimensional... </p>
<p>The multiple choice, on the other hand, was a piece of cake!</p>
<p>I thought the MC was easy -- no omits, and of the few on which I wasn't completely sure, I could always narrow it down to one or two (with the exception of one, which I could only narrow down to three.) I really liked and understood the first passage, despite what everyone else is saying, but I found the questions for the last one the most difficult. </p>
<p>I hadn't really done any practice for the essays, so I have no idea how I did. I think I did a good job with the synthesis one (I wrote a lot and incorporated the sources a lot without just summarizing them); the second one was reallyyy open-ended so I dunno if I did well; on the third, I stopped trying to cater to the test and wrote in my own (fairly nontraditional) style, so we'll see how that works out. </p>
<p>Uhm... for the "rhetorical strategy"/"style"/whatever category of essay... do you guys know how many strategies/devices we're supposed to talk about? People I talked to ranged from talking about two or three specific strategies in detail (I talked about two...) to having two or three broad categories and in total talking about six or seven different strategies. :/</p>
<p>Yeah, the third one sucked, what I wrote was way too simple.</p>