<p>Uh, I'm startin to think there's no way to study for that. Isn't it just measuring your critical thinking skills? the more i read review stuff, the more i realize they don't wnat to know how MUCH you learned but how well you can understand literature. ? is that right? it seems so stupid to me.</p>
<p>I understand your pain and frustration. I aced the Verbal section on the SAT I, but AP English Lit seems a step up from the SAT. Some questions seem to be way too vague and general and even our English teacher says he was confused with some questions! From what I understand, you can sort of study by doing as much reading as possible, but much of what score you get will depend on luck (ie whether you enjoy and understand those passages on test day).</p>
<p>GAH. its such a STUPID ap. Oh, well, i can ace it. all the practice ones i aced. It just makes me mad for the people who don't get reading comprehension as easily, seeing as its nearly impossible to learn that in just one year.</p>
<p>I gave up on ap lit already. I tried using review books but they were pretty much useless. I just feel like literature is something you have to be naturally good at. I can read a poem over and over and I still won't get the meaning of it. Maybe I'm just dumb, who knows.</p>
<p>EXACTLY! not everybody gets literature, so you can't study for it. its not cuz you're dumb; i dont get algebra II and calculus, and i dont consider myself dumb. its just that i can actually LEARN that stuff ya kno? if someone taught me that i could learn it, but i dont think there's a way to teach english literture. there's just not. its a way of thinking, not a skill. its the stupidest thing i've ever heard of.</p>
<p>All I gotta say to you people is that practice makes perfect. It all depends on whether you had good english teachers in high school.</p>
<p>Yeah I took one semester of ap lit, and dropped the class because I work 40 hours a week and couldnt keep up with the reading.
I'm still taking the exam, because I'm a fairly decent writer, but I've been doing practice multiple choice tests and bombing them.
The next day and a half looks pretty bleak for me.
Barron's AP Eng Lit review is pretty mediocre. Does anyone have any suggestions as far as what review books to use?</p>
<p>What's the curve for the test? I've only been getting half the MC right.</p>
<p>I got a 700 on the Lit SAT2 before really starting the class...I'm just worried about the essays...</p>
<p>IMO the essays are easier...the multiple choice is just crazy. My best score in any one passage/poem on the MC was 8/10 questions. Of a set with more questions, 23 out of 30 was my absolute max. The vagueness of it surpasses both SAT CR and SAT Lit, as well as AP Lang. You just have to <em>get</em> literature for this test...and right, there is no real way to study for it.</p>
<p>i took ap lit in 2006
i thought that the questions were much easier than those i had seen on SAT verbal and SAT II literature</p>
<p>i think i have a natural aptitude for lit and i took the real tests and got -6 and -8 wrong on them. but then i took the barron's test yesterday in my ap english class and found it impossible. in two sections i got 15 wrong. is it me or the test?? im starting to get worried now, like i dont get how that test could be so much harder and if the real ap is like that tomorrow...that sucks. </p>
<p>has anyone else had the same experience with the barron's practice tests?</p>
<p>As hard as the AP Lit test is, Barrons AP Lit is much harder, IMHO. The correct answers that they declare really have not enough evidence to back up. ALso, they don't tell you why the other answers are WRONG, which is important in the learning process.</p>
<p>I love the essay section because you can present your own thesis/argument and have the opportunity to back it up. Multiple choice on the other hand, is hell for me, since I might have an interpretation/theme in my head that does not agree to the interpretation/theme of the test makers. </p>
<p>The phrase "Use the text only, not your emotions/background" doesn't help either, it merely solidifies your own interpretation >_<</p>
<p>so how are you guys going to study for it (other than studying literary terms), if you are going to at all?</p>
<p>I'm practicing MC (doing pretty awful at the moment..I doubt I'll improve but I'd rather have some practice before taking the test) and definitely going over some novels.</p>
<p>so is it pretty safe to say the barron's test is not an accurate representation of how you'll do on the test? </p>
<p>i found the test questions extremely vague on the barron's test and at least two answers in each i could find substantial textual support for (and i'd always choose the wrong one). how are the princeton tests?</p>
<p>Screw lit...but if u want study advice my teacher told us to look up definitions of literary terms and read random poems and analyze them</p>
<p>i really don't think you can study for this exam..it's basically testing whether you're good at literary analysis, which i don't think can be taught.</p>
<p>You can study... memorize literary terms and make sure you have quite a few good classical novels under your belt to use on the essay. I'm going to go through the Sparknotes for novels I have read.</p>