<p>I started with hamlet, but then crossed it out… </p>
<p>(I don’t think we can, actually, to be on the safe side)</p>
<p>I thought the passages were a lot easier than I thought they would be, except for the sonnet, which sort of confused me. But my teacher basically only gave us John Donne poems to practice, so anything is easier than that. <em>laugh</em> I think my essays were decent, except for the second one on Middlemarch. My class had never written a prose essay, so it was hard. And I used Atticus and To Kill A Mockingbird for the last one, although now I wish I had used Hamlet or Macbeth (with Macduff as the character). Oh well. :)</p>
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<p>Lol, Hamlet is the obvious choice for *every * essay. Our teacher actually read us something a few days ago- advice from an AP essay reader- that ended with “Whatever you do, *don’t *use Hamlet”. Obviously it’s allowed but there’s always going to be an enormous amount of Hamlet essays that yours will inevitably be compared against. I think that’s why people tend to stay away from it.</p>
<p>I wrote about Sheherazade’s frame story from the One Thousand and One Nights…oops</p>
<p>Basically, if you use Hamlet, you have to be extremely confident you can write a very solid essay - because there’ll inevitably be a billion of them. Whereas if you did your essay on a lesser-read book like, say, White Noise by Don DeLillo, your readers might be a little more lax. </p>
<p>…unfortunately, I was between Beloved and Hamlet (two over-used books) for that prompt, and I knew I could write a much better essay for Hamlet than Beloved. …though, I suppose A Doll’s House would have worked too. Equus would have lead me off of the prompt too easily, and I just wasn’t familiar enough with the other books I’d have used to write a competent essay on them. Too many details flew out of my head from Catch-22 and 1984 (read those for pleasure as opposed to curriculum) and TKAM was freshman year…</p>
<p>I wrote on Brutus in Julius Caesar (question 3) and felt kind of alone in doing that - anyone else?</p>
<p>Count me as another C&P. Considered Hamlet for .5 seconds then decided I had to do C&P.</p>
<p>Clarification - when you all say you wrote 2.5 or 3 pages, do you mean 2.5 SIDES or 2 full pages front/back and then half of the 5th page?</p>
<p>As for the FRQ, I looked at the name of the author and the title of the first question/the poem and laughed, then I started working on a thesis right after. The only time I looked at the actual poem was to fine evidence. </p>
<p>I analyzed the poem and did a huge project that analyzed the poet in 9th grade.
Other two FRQ’s were no big deal. Used East of Eden as my book, which was really strong in my opinion since I analyzed it from multiple perspectives.</p>
<p>As for the booklets and the ap number labels, I don’t recall getting asked to put a label on either this or my environmental science exam. I’m pretty sure they’ll be able to identify that the book is yours since you do have to state the booklet number on your mc scantron, so they should be able to see that it’s yours.</p>
<p>When you guys say “working on a thesis” what do you mean… I was told the AP Lit likes for you to have a sentence or two super short intro and to jump into your essay. You guys wrote formal introductions and thesis?</p>
<p>Hmm, skimmed through the thread, but I think I was the only one to use Native Son. A friend of mine used King Lear.</p>
<p>I used Atlas Shurgged and John Galt’s justice.</p>
<p>I could’ve used Hamlet, because my teacher reviewed Hamlet for the entire month before the exam since she knew it fit many prompts, but I chose to use Tess of the D’urbervilles. As painful as that book was to read, it’s really easy to write about. </p>
<p>The MC was pretty easy, but then again it always seems like that… I’m expecting a 4; possibly a 3 but likely not a 5.</p>
<p>@Staller,</p>
<p>My intros are always 2 sentences, unless it’s the open prompt.</p>
<p>Multiple choice was easy, but there were a few questions that confused me. We’ve been doing ridiculously hard practice questions in class, so the actual exam wasn’t as bad. I loved all the passages. I dislike poetry in general, but the grief one was amazing (: </p>
<p>FRQ1: My longest and best, I think. The poem was sad, but had great lines to work with.<br>
FRQ2: Eh. Decent, but worst out of the three. I don’t think my points were strong enough.
FRQ3: I considered Hamlet, since I’d written an awesome essay on it for class, but then I saw Oedipus Rex on the list (I’d forgotten about it!) and thought it’d be perfect. Did okay (; I haven’t even read most of the works people are talking about on here!</p>
<p>Also, how you guys write so much and still stay on topic? I’m lucky if I manage to fill up 2 SIDES. If I write much more than that, I end up rambling.
I think I got at least a 4, but need a 5 to get placed out of lowest level English courses next yr…<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I didnt go through the whole post, but I am pretty sure that I am the only one who used Huck Finn for the free-response essay. I suck at multiple choice, so I am not sure of what I got score wise. I do believe that I passed the exam :D</p>
<p>screw college board. can we talk about the mc pleeeease? haha</p>
<p>I have consistently sucked at practice MC exams throughout the school year; however, I felt these questions were very reasonable.</p>
<p>I thought all of the essays were easy and straightforward. I wrote about Moira in The Handmaid’s Tale for the third prompt.</p>
<p>@taylorgabriel: NO. I wish we could, but no…</p>
<p>I used Farenheit 451 for the open response. I read Hamlet too long ago to remember it lol.</p>