<p>nellyata - Someone set off a fire alarm today which took kids out of the Euro test (I took Euro 2 years so I was good), but idk what happened. I feel bad for you though - psycho students??</p>
<p>Also for q3 I wrote about The Great Gatsby…Idk how this is gonna play out based on what everyone else is talking about, but I related it to Gatsby’s search for love and his ‘justice’ needed for Daisy breaking her promise. Thoughts?</p>
<p>Regardless of any “human-like beauty” or “hidden intentions,” I really liked the pony poem. It was beautiful.</p>
<p>(I’m not a girl with pony posters above her bed or any weird obsession, btw)</p>
<p>MC: Easier than expected, only 1 difficult passage for me (grief)
FRQ 1: Mostly easy, but not sure if I interpreted it correctly.
FRQ 2: Moderate; ended up repeating myself quite a bit
FRQ 3: Easy. Used Huck Finn and had no trouble analyzing the prompt. I’m assuming it’s my best essay.</p>
<p>Any ideas on the curve? It’s interesting how pretty much everyone thought the MC was easy, so I’m expecting a strict curve.</p>
<p>It was funny, because the pony poem was one we ended up reading in class! I didn’t pay much attention to it when we did, but I at least had some idea of what it was when I saw it. Everyone in my class was happy!</p>
<p>MC was easier than I thought it would be and easier than the practice tests I took. All essays weren’t too bad. #3 was the easiest- I used the Awakening for it, and so did some other people in my class since we read that at school and spent a lot of time on it. I’m thinking I got above 6 out of 9 on each essay, hopefully an 8 on the last one because I think my analysis of its significance was right on what it needed, hopefully.</p>
<p>Easy test was easy. </p>
<p>MC: Simple.
FRQ1: Worst of my three essays probably, but obviously still passing.
FRQ2: Was basically A Doll’s House in prose form, so I was good here.
FRQ3: Hamlet made this one super simple. Dunno why people feel confined to the list, there’s no requirement. I don’t think anyone in my class used a novel from the list.</p>
<p>…Wish I could’ve used White Noise on 3 though, just read that book and looooooooved it. Justice’d have been hard though.</p>
<p>It was all right for me, I think.</p>
<p>MC: I was sick, super-congested, and barely awake…so I can’t really gauge how well I did at all. I know I missed several at least though. :(</p>
<p>FRQ 1: 2.5 pages. Not too bad. Perhaps somewhere in the 6-7 range…</p>
<p>FRQ 2: 2.5 pages. I felt really bored while writing it, and nearly stopped at 2 pages…and then I threw in “usage of dialogue” as a literary technique, so that made it longer.</p>
<p>FRQ 3: 3.5 pages (?). As I Lay Dying! Possibly my favorite book that we read in class this whole year. I wrote on how Darl views the mistreatment of Addie’s body as an injustice, and ultimately fails in trying to correct that injustice.</p>
<p>Was the “sketchy question” on the ponies poem? Something about comparing the pony to a human/girl?</p>
<p>Joshmay94–not exactly. I felt that he thought that peopl throwing labels on him (because he’s black: Emma: is he black enough?) or expecting him to fullfill a duplicitous role–that is his invisibility–would be the injustice forced upon his identity. And he seeks freedom for self-expression and individuality, where he wouldn’t be expected to conform to any roles in society (basically he could be his own man). But he’s only confronted by the same thing with the Brotherhood etc…and ultimately I mention that the same type of betrayal he encountered in the south is essentially mirrored in the north. But I think both ways work. I like your idea of synonymizing (not really a word but just go with it) invisibility with freedom, because I think that was another way our Teacher offered as an interpretation.</p>
<p>FRQ1: I enjoyed the theme of the poetry essay but I found I didn’t have much to say…</p>
<p>FRQ2: I really enjoyed the bickering in the prose essay passage lol. I might just go read Middlemarch now. </p>
<p>FRQ3: The Tempest for the justice essay. Owned.</p>
<p>Oh and the sketchy question is getting a little overhyped here…for those who are wondering it was something like “why does the speaker say the cow feels like a girl’s skin?” and one of the answers (I believe it was the correct one, too!) was something like “to give it a sense of human attractiveness”</p>
<p>@Staller I got like three or four D’s in a row also.</p>
<p>@nellyata123, our school went through h e l l too! First the phone rang, then there was a friggin snake in the testing room… so we had to evacuate which was more like everyone screaming and running, then we switched rooms and the class above us were moving desks around (which sounded like an earthquake) for a good 10 minutes until our proctor finally disrupted the class once more and called to tell them we were testing below -____-</p>
<p>Absolutely blown away by how easy this exam was. The practice MC’s we did all year were awful. Regularly scored sub-50% on them. Included massive amounts of complex literary terms, poetic structures and meters, etc. </p>
<p>This exam had ONE poetry question and the only literary terms were like personification and similes. All three essays were jokes. Incredibly easy to analyze. The poems and stories on the MC felt like 5th grade reading. Literally impossible to NOT understand them. How do only 7% get 5s…</p>
<p>Used Merchant of Venice for my essay. Was definitely unique. Surprised more people didn’t use it… Provides a very interesting/ironic tale of justice.</p>
<p>@Pancaked, while I was also pleasantly surprised about the overall simplicity of the test, I hope you realize you sound like a complete academic elitist and (in more blunt and modern terms) a total dbag.</p>
<p>“Literally impossible NOT to understand them.” This is how CC earned its reputation.</p>
<p>I agree it didn’t have many complex lit terms and structures and meters, etc. We had to learn all that crap too and know it for tests and whatever in class, but then you only need the most common lit terms for the AP test.</p>
<p>Even with that, I think I got a 4, not a 5, because I do better analyzing lit on papers than on MC because I don’t always agree with theirs or there’s 2 really good answers. I do better doing a deep analysis in a paper, so I think I’ll have good essay scores, and my essays won’t quite match my MC score, so that will bring it down to a 4 instead of a 5. I’ll be ok with a 4 on this I guess.</p>
<p>alan010201: “to give it a sense of human attractiveness”</p>
<p>What was the actual question asking, and was this the answer to it?</p>
<p>A lot of people I talked to at my school thought this test was pretty good–especially the essays.</p>
<p>The last essay screamed for Crime and Punishment like no other.</p>
<p>Println: In the poem, the speaker was talking about how the touch of the pony felt like the skin of a little girl. The question basically asked the purpose of making the comparison. One of the answers really was, almost word for word, “to give the pony a sense of human attractiveness,” and I really do believe that it was the right answer, too!</p>
<p>HeWhoPwnz - I totally used C&P</p>
<p>Um… is it just me or was Hamlet the obvious choice for the essay? I only saw one person on the thread use it, but… half of my class used Hamlet.
The multiple choice was ridiculously easy, except for the last passage. I hated how the prompts for the novel excerpt and the poem were essentially the same. So boring to write about relationships twice.</p>
<p>I thought the second essay was absolutely terrible. The first and the third were really good. The third couldn’t have been easier. So many people I talked to used Hamlet. I used To Kill a Mockingbird.</p>
<p>You can never tell with the MC… so I have no idea how I did.</p>
<p>Hamlet was awesome for this FRQ. I’m sure a lot of other books could fit just as well. Hey, can we discuss FRQ yet? Or do we have to wait until tomorrow.</p>