<p>yea definitely way easier than november's
i have another question tho
what did you guys put for the first passage something about her overcoming gravity?
i put she was entering adulthood or something?</p>
<p>It was something about how she has no control in her life cause her parents controlled everything. They made everything around her and now they're controlling where shes going and shes resentful because of that. Something like that LOL.</p>
<p>Wow I had forgotten completely about that text...I responded something along the lines of relinquishing control from her parents....I agree with balaylay it was more so about her parents control than her progression into adulthood,though no doubt that compounded with that, but I took control as the theme from the authors point of view.</p>
<p>oh yea that makes sense now
thanks for the help!</p>
<p>^for the bit about something pulling her up against the force of gravity, I put that she was confident about whatever, because at that point, she had decided to go against her parents [inevitable suffocating force of gravity/overbearing parents! lololol] and "get up out of that bed for the last time" idk i was sleepy.</p>
<p>What did you guys do to prepare?</p>
<p>All I did was do some questions out of the Barron's book and memorize some terms that ended up being completely useless...</p>
<p>Uhhh, prepare? for Lit??? Wut.</p>
<p>I used the Princeton Review which I found to be rather lacking and reviewed a list of literary terms but in the end it was pointless, most of them where not even used and the two questions with a literary term for example the one about epic smiles was not even on the list.
I’ve come to believe the only way to do good on this test is reading and thru reading acquiring analytical skills as well as vocabulary, its all rather subjective.
This is not the History tests which theoretically one could study for every answer.</p>
<p>Yea just analyzing literature throughout your scholastic career will prepare you, not really anything you can do before hand. I just relied on what we do in my AP Lit class as good enough preparation cause the AP stuff is ridiculous compared to the SAT II.</p>
<p>I think I probably should have left more blank, but from what I hear I'm glad I took it now and not in November. Did anyone else find the one about the senator really entertaining/the easiest passage?</p>
<p>The senator one was amusing. But I think I spent a little too much time absorbing it...</p>
<p>I mostly thought that the prose piece about the girl and her parents was about how she wanted to meet their expectations..? Because there was two lines dedicated to her talking about how her mother was a "hypocrite" for saying that she'd love her no matter what... Lol, I dunno.</p>
<p>my study regimen included taking prac tests from both barron's and kaplan 2009 prep books. kaplan is more realistic but barron's, by being purposefully difficult, preps you for the worst.</p>
<p>Those two lines were to show how her mother was a hypocrite because she said shed love her for her yet controlled every aspect of her life not letting her be herself, or something like that.</p>
<p>I agree with yoyo, the girl "fighting gravity" was entering adulthood. She most definitely was not confident, she longed for her parents affection and resented them pushing her out of the house.</p>
<p>I took Lit last-- and it was annoying, mainly because I just wanted to leave & the passages and poems needed to be analyzed too much..and they were so long too.
/rant.</p>
<p>Eh, it wasn't bad though.. & I would kill myself if I had to prepare for Lit.
Unnecessary stress and studying, imo.</p>
<p>[[edit: I think I did the worst on lit of the three]</p>
<p>I really enjoyed/think I understood the poetry. I disliked the first prose (With the daughter/parents). I think I did pretty well, an uplift after a crappy Math II test with 10 omits.</p>
<p>One of the few that wasn't too sure about was the speaker in the one about Flannery O'Connor - it was a tourist, because she was visiting O'Connor's house, but I wasn't sure. There was no indication that it was a NORTHERN tourist, idkkkkkk</p>
<p>yeah that one threw me off too :/ because one of the answers was black writer and the other was northern tourist. for sure she was a tourist (but northern?) and i thought it could be argued that she was black because it hurt her psyche so much to see injustice against blacks. i think it was tourist though ebcause being from the north means you're more likely to be pro-abolitionist.</p>
<p>Was it a tourist? i think that's what I put....what were the other answer choices?</p>
<p>I think I probably missed like 10-15. =/ Oh well, a 650+ will make me happy. ;D</p>