<p>I only took this test because people said it was easy.
They were very wrong. Very wrong indeed. damn the really smart cc people that lead me the wrong way!</p>
<p>you should never listen to the really smart cc people.
i just remember some really smart cc ppl saying i had no chance of getting in to the colleges i picked when i posted a chances thread. and they suggested i quickly find a college with a deadline that was in february since they thought i'd probably get rejected by all the ones i already applied to.
muhuhaha BOO YAH i got into the college i wanted. which WASNT in the feb deadline. not that i followed their advice anyway muhuahaha</p>
<p>I think the test was easy i just bombed the 2nd essay i think i still might've done decently though, im intelligent then most but im not studious at all like most CC people, and cookie i agree with you, the What's My Chances forum is dominated by people who overinflate how hard it is to get into some schools, i think the actual school's subforums are a bit more friendly :)</p>
<p>I like all the pretty ovals on the MC!!! I have officially gone insane!!</p>
<p>I think I did well on all my essays, including #2.</p>
<p>The MC were so-so. I wish I had more time to revise.</p>
<p>I thought it wasnt that bad, it was my first AP test and I was nervous, but i think i will get a 4 or 5. MC = fairly hard, didn't skip any though, prolly 5-15 wrong. Essays= good, 1st one was such a bad topic and I didnt write the best essay so I prolly got a 6/7, 2nd wasnt THAT bad just a combination of syntax, diction, and hypothetical examples for rhetorical strat prolly got 6/7, 3rd was rediculously easy prolly got 8/9</p>
<p>my god this board has alot of people. if hope i can get a 4 . oh yeah one of my friends wrote "I love College Board" on their.</p>
<p>Here what I thought...</p>
<p>Multiple Choice - Hardest Thing ever</p>
<p>Essay #1
I said that American culture is conforming to believe what society wants them to believe = Loss of individuality</p>
<p>Essay #2
I thought the author was critisizing people who are greedy. I may have misinterpreted it though... </p>
<p>Essay #3
Used personal examples to say that opinions are worthwhile and democratic but ONLY if one learns to express his own opinions, not just listen to the opinions of others</p>
<p>Coolness, I said almost the exact same stuff as you, Josephr115.</p>
<p>so let's seeee
MC- ehn, skipped 7 that i wasnt absoloutely positive on. maybe got another 3 or 4 wrong that i didnt realize or something.
i thought the essays were all pretty fair/straightforward. </p>
<p>1- i said she basically had a bemused distaste for American consumerism.
her critique was very subtle/comical in its "jibes." like when she says "but no matter" after talking about how the earlier american consumerist-esque desire for flamingo plumes/meat resulted in the extinction of the modern consumerist want of the moment. </p>
<p>2- my essay basically amounted to how the guy thought that life with a lack of money was horrible, and that it's only ironically made moreee horrible, by the fact that (with the last sentence) the only goodness from a penniless life comes when your dead. i talked about how this wasn't necessarily supposed to be an assuaging detail ;-) then i talked about that mother of a middle sentence, how it's longness translated into tediousness, making you want it to end, thus effectively reflecting what one would want of the very life hes describing IN that sentence. i thought this was also meant to be a relatively humorous piece.</p>
<p>3- i disagreed with the web blogs etcetc promoting democratic ideals. i basically said a web blog (and the variations thereof>> radio show, magazine etc) where you can block dissenting opinions from being posted/printed/broadcasted etc in fact undermines the ideals because it hinders public discourse giving them virtual soapboxes where theyre unassailable. i gave examples of some cool things. </p>
<p>so ap english language exam. good times.</p>
<p>Lets see...</p>
<h1>1- I said it showed how she thought Americans lov to show off, and care about presenting an image of luxury.</h1>
<h1>2- Basically, it amounted to money was a nessecery part of life; without it, life is miserable.</h1>
<h1>3- I qualified it, using F.D.R. and Bono for examples of when public opinions can be useful, and Hitler and McCarthy for when they are not.</h1>
<p>What do you think? Did it answer them right? ;)</p>
<h1>1 - (predicted score - 7/8?) I didn't really analyze any rhetorical strategies at all... i pointed out her stressing of the fact that the flamingos were bold and stood out, and how she gave examples of ppl like elvis presley, whcih showed that for her, the flamingo was a symbolic representation that american culture liked to stand out... i also took the part where she said that the flamingo represented wealtha nd luxury, and how that represented america's love for leisure and riches.</h1>
<h1>2 - (predicted score - 7/8?) i analyzed how the long sentence int he middle was full of examples, very few conjunctions which were replaced instead by commas and semicolons, producing a piling up effect of the different miseries and reiterating over and over again that the poor are miserable, then i analyzed some vivid diction choices, and I remarked that the first and last sentence, which are really short in comparison serve to contrast witht he middle sentence; the first one simply puts forth the truth which he defends in the second sentence, and the last one talks abotu the one good thing that <em>might</em> occur if you are poor, and that sentences is really short to contrast with the fact that there are so many more things that are bad for the impoverished.</h1>
<h1>3 - (predicted score - 4/5...) the topic was really easy, but by the third essay i kinda lost steam and was sick of writing essays...i didnt really use any specific examples, and im not sure if my essay flowed that well; anwyay, i said public opinions in the form of strikes lead to social reform, public opinions lead to greater awareness of problems, and awareness of all sides of an argument to better be ablet o judge the most effective way to resolve a problem, and that while not all opinions are worth listening too, by being able to put forth ur personal opinion in the first place, you are given an active role in the happenings of the country <=> democracy in action.</h1>
<p>so i dont know what it was that made me misinterpret it but when the author of the second passage says "being in the want of it..." i interpreted "want" as being in desireof money, not lacking money. anyone on that same boat?</p>
<p>would you say the second one used deductive reasoning?</p>
<p>I thought the second one was about how money is necessary, but the "want of money" is bad?</p>
<p>Root of evil and root of good of money is what I thought.</p>
<p>The second one is simple about greed.</p>
<p>For the first essay, did we have to focus on rhetorical strategies? I focused more on what the actual content implies rather than how the essay is written... does that automatically receive a low score? Also, does the length of essays matter? I don't think mine were that long.</p>
<p>Lenghth matters. The sample high scoring essays from the CB site supports this.</p>
<p>did the second one use deductive reasoning (general to specific) with the general statement to the specific examples.</p>