<p>Does anybody have any hints on how to get a decent 6-7 grade on the essays?
I think Crash Course will prepare me for around a 60 on the MC, but when I look at the essay questions, I always blank out.</p>
<p>Any assistance at all would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Hide what you don’t know in rhetoric and “analysis” haha</p>
<p>Don’t make your essays a regurgitation about all the facts and definitions you know. They want to see how you use what you know to support YOUR argument. </p>
<p>So don’t take rhetoric and analysis as a means of hiding, make them the focus of your essay and weave as many supporting cold facts and figures for to support that rhetoric and analysis. </p>
<p>Again, don’t just restate facts about the topic or era. Argue with those facts. Throw some subjectivness around.</p>
<p>While I agree with what the above posters have said, do show off. Find ways to bring in as much knowledge as you can. Work a number of different factors into your analysis. AP scorers will look to see what knowledge of a period or a question you’ll work into your answer, so as long as your essay is clear, coherent, well analyzed, and well written, the rule for content is: the more, the merrier.</p>
<p>thanks!
If any of you are currently taking APUSH, has any of your teachers made any predictions on the essays? My teacher’s pretty much useless. We still haven’t done Cold War LOL.</p>
<p>I always find that it’s nice to introduce evidence, etc. that goes against your own argument, but as an aside. This always adds some nice analysis if you include with rhetoric like ‘an exception to this concept can be seen in ___.’</p>
<p>If you can look to CoT/C+C style essays from APWH, that style of writing is really nice for AP’s ‘analysis’ paradigm. They just want to see you make connections between IDs, consider how things have changed, etc.</p>