<p>what is it like? is it similar to the critical reading portion of the SAT?</p>
<p>You may want to ask that in the AP forum, or the SAT I forum, but probably not in the subject test forum ;)</p>
<p>whoops! i meant the sat lit subject test!</p>
<p>Oh, that's a different story then ;) Can't help you there...</p>
<p>If you are curious about the AP lit, I found a thread for you:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/668724-sat-cr-vs-english-language-ap.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/668724-sat-cr-vs-english-language-ap.html</a></p>
<p>I can help a bit.
As a preface, I made an 800 on the SAT II Lit and a 5 on AP Eng Lit, so I like to think I'm qualified :D</p>
<p>It is similar to CR, but different in one key respect: you're reading passages/poems that actually have **substance<a href="well,%20there%20are%20exceptions.%20%20To%20be%20PC,%20they%20usually%20throw%20in%20some%20stupid%20piece%20about%20ethnicity%20or%20culture%20for%20its%20own%20sake">/B</a>. At any rate, reading a stupid SAT CR paragraph and reading an actual SAT II Lit passage are totally different things. Especially with poetry. It requires a broader knowledge of connotative reasoning. If you love reading, you'll be fine. If not, don't take the test.</p>
<p>Also, you need to know Lit vocab (alliteration, allegory, juxtaposition, enjambment, caesura...you get the point). Instead of it being like CR, the vocab is Lit-based, so be prepared.</p>
<p>i have a question for hookem: do the terms we need to know for the SAT II lit test correspond with the terms for AP List, or are they less specific? In class we're learning parallel structure, anaphora, etc.etc.</p>
<p>^ I don't recall them being distinctly different, so i assume they're fairly close.</p>
<p>Just remember that the AP Lit test has 3 full-length essays on it, so that's worth a lot. Since the SAT II doesn't have essays, you need to make every vocab point count.</p>
<p>cool, thanks =]</p>