<p>So I figure I'm going to get a 4 or a 5 on U.S History...I mean, it's one of those "study = pass" tests.</p>
<p>AP Stats ... BLAH lol (bad story for my school where the teacher doesn't even teach for the test...the #2 ranked in my grade got a ONE last year!!!)</p>
<p>But I am worried about AP Lit...can anyone give me any tips? I am a good writer (not as much as when I'm sitting at my computer writing an essay tho). The problem is that the poetry seems to be very difficult and I'm worried about it all. Does anyone have any tips of any kind? Anyone run out of time? <em>Tips for poetry</em>?</p>
<p>My teacher didn't really do any prep at all. All she told us at the end of class today (last test before ap) was that iambic pentameter had 10 syllables per line....hahah, thats it, and she said she hopes to god we'll pass </p>
<p>Good news for me since thats the term I was having trouble with.</p>
<p>Haha...ya my teacher was absent yesterday and then today she had us "study privately" = 4 kids (others at spanish ap...although we are a very small class anyways lol) in a class with senioritis who are sick of studying...guess what resulted lol. Although she did read us a poem heh</p>
<p>Our school places almost no emphasis on AP tests. Alot of teachers dont prepare either...just last minute stuff on top of thier teaching. I'm not worried though, I'm not expecting to pass. More of a math and science guy myself...I just dont wanna take the final. </p>
<p>Last year the safe wouldn't open on the day of AP English, so our test got changed and moved to the end of May...needless to say I didn't feel like taking it then and used the entire time and space for FR to inform the test grader how I felt.</p>
<p>Ya it's the same with my school. My AP classes (including me) are 6 people large, 9 people large, and then a normal class size. Not many people take AP Tests so there are not many people to share the stress with (My school only offers 11 out of the 32 AP courses possible...with few kids in each class). -It's interesting that I am one of the only guys that even likes/is good at english at my High School though. There has been only ONE other guy in most of my english classes throughout highschool. It's strange...</p>
<p>my teacher said that the essay on the poetry is the one that most students have trouble with and it's the one students do poorest on. so she recommends us to work on the other two (open ended and prose) more than on the poetry one. if you're really stuck on the poetry essay, just write whatever you think is right. and the more you write, the more idea and understanding will arise because during the process you are thinking.</p>
<p>good luck! i'm taking it on thursday as well.</p>
<p>yea thats what my teacher told us to do too, he said tp tackle the open ended first cuz its the easiest and should be on the top of your head.....but like after takin a full length practice last week, many students felt that they were mentally drained by the time they were to write the poetry one...so u should go for the hardest one first!</p>
<p>Read all the essay prompts first. Do the hardest one first, then the one you think you'll do best on (not necessarily the easiest one), so you make sure you have time to do it well. That's my strategy anyway.</p>
<p>As for MC, I'm pretty good at it, but I don't think I have any tips. And if it makes any difference, I'm not that great at the essays, so if someone who does better gives you different advice, take theirs. ;)</p>
<p>We haven't prepped too much for the test, except for the open ended one. But that's because we prepped for the language one last year, and the skills you need are similar. The questions are similar too, but not as much. </p>
<p>I got a 5 last year on the language one, so I won't get credit for this one. Oh, well, I'll try my best anyway.</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat. my teacher hasnt taught towards the test at all. We havent even written any practice essays. My teacher just introduced poetry two weeks ago. arg.</p>
<p>My teacher (who prepares us <em>insanely</em> well--there were fewer than half a dozen 3s out of fifty-some students taking it last year)'s recommendation is, after reading all the prompts, to rank them in terms of expected ease and do the middle one first, then the hardest one, and then to finish with the easiest one. In that way, you can build some confidence on one that's not insanely difficult, spend them most time on the hardest one (rather than freaking out at only having thirty minutes to do it if you save it for last), and then be able to rush through the easy one if need be.</p>
<p>Pindar: Yes, it matters what college you're going to.</p>
<p>I'm going to Baylor, and you get the same credit for the Language and the Lit one. But I signed up for the lit one because some of the colleges I applied to (like UNC Chapel Hill), would give me credit for both.</p>