<p>lol i mentioned celebrities too, how the coverage is totally disproportional and doesn't reflect reality</p>
<p>i don't c how that relates to democracy tho...lol</p>
<p>alright let's roll through this.</p>
<p>MC - didn't seem TOO bad.... kind of seemed easier than the CliffsAP test questions.</p>
<p>essay 1 - said she was making American Culture out to be too unnatural and unrealistic..... and how the last sentence of the passage made it seem like Americans wanted to be acknowledged for things they shouldn't have been.............. reading what everyone else wrote..... have a feeling i'm lookin at a BOMB for this essay.</p>
<p>essay 2 - basically..... ***. BSed all of it.
parallel construction, anaphora, overstatement, allusion (I said the entire passage was an allusion to his own life and how he thought it would end)..... basically garbage.</p>
<p>essay 3- omg, I think I DOMINATED this, cept for one possible scenario: my grader.</p>
<p>if the guy/girl grading my essay is a Liberal/Democrat who likes Jesse Jackson and believes in scientology, I AM GETTING A 0 on that essay.</p>
<p>pretty much this is how my 3 body paragraphs went - no conclusions on any of the 3 essays cause they would be useless anyways.</p>
<p>first body - some citizens know, other's dont, around 50% - 1 example, my friend who knows what he's talking about (which is equal to having a worthwhile opinion), 2nd example, someone else in school who has strong opinions but can't back them up.</p>
<p>2nd body - most politicians do, a couple don't - mentioned president and condoleeza rice as politicians who have worthwhile opinions. Reverend Jesse Jackson doesn't have a worthwhile opinion b/c he doesn't know what he's talking about w/ the Duke Lacrosse case.</p>
<p>3rd body - most entertainers don't know what they're talkin bout, but a couple do (opposite of politicians) - mentioned Carlos Mencia and how he knows what he's talking about b/c he has relevent evidence.... then mentioned everyone who believes in scientology b/c the entire religion is based on a science FICTION book..... mentioned Tom Cruise and John Travolta as scientology followers.</p>
<p>APDoolittle: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=184470%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=184470</a> :)</p>
<p>There were 2 ?s, one asking if the opinions were useful (or something like that). That's why I used the celebs... Plus, they also help to dumb down America.</p>
<p>Hmmm... hey those are pretty interesting examples, Evilbooyaa ;)</p>
<p>Oh! And I forgot!</p>
<p>In the first essay, the title alone shows the author's attitude towards the subject: "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History."</p>
<p>See?</p>
<p>Plastic. Natural. </p>
<p>Haha?</p>
<p>My thoughts:
MC-not too bad, especially the first passage (I lost concentration during the Thoreau one, lol).
I finished all of them, but only had 7 mins to read and do the last passage. I somewhat guessed on the last 4 (after eliminating 2 obvious choices in each one).
Essays-ouch
1: Semi-Hard, spent 50 mins on this. Pretty boring.
2: Read the prompt, skimmed the passage, said "screw this" and went on to the next one :P (In retrospect, I think this was a good decision, since I could actually spend more time on a topic I could write about!) I ended up spending 30 mins here.
3: Simple, very SAT-like, spent 40 mins, used Vietnam protests and civil rights movement as examples (couldn't think of any literary examples off the top of my head). Overall I thought I did the best on this.</p>
<p>My teacher is also an AP grader.
A few suggestions:
-Don't write an essay based on literary terms. You need to analyze the author's argument and just toss in a few style things here and there. Focus on ideas, not elements.
-When pressed for time, especially on the rhetoric one, write a note to the evaluator saying what you would have said had you had more time. Trust me, it helps!</p>
<p>I thought the 2nd essay was the worst of all three, since I had limited things to write about (only wrote 1 page) and the argument didn't have too much to go indepth. I recognized the hyperboles, parallelism, and extra long sentence, but that's it in terms of elements. His argument was just about how money is essential, but actively seeking it prevents you from enjoying life to its fullest.</p>
<p>Lol, I used Vietnam protests also for the 3rd essay....</p>
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-When pressed for time, especially on the rhetoric one, write a note to the evaluator saying what you would have said had you had more time. Trust me, it helps!
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<p>really? my teacher told us specifically not to write notes to the grader!</p>
<p>For the first one I wrote about how she was making fun of Americans for first killing all of the flamingos and then attempting to raise plastic onces in their place. And they couldnt even do that right because the plastic flamingos are more pink then the real flamingos even though the author mentions that flamingos are generally the brightest thing around. She was poking fun at the fact that Americans have to have things be even better then they already are. I also mentioned the other cultures who worship flamingos and yet America is the only country to reproduce it and sell it for money - sign of greed. </p>
<p>I liked how at first i had no idea about this essay and then thoughts just flooded me.</p>
<p>no cliff note essays were definitely harder than the ones on the test. the ones on this test were a BREEEEEEEEEZE</p>
<p>hey do they CURVE the AP tests if a lot of people do poorly?</p>
<p>OMG i skipped ahead to essay 3 after essay 1, but then wrote it on essay 2's space.... i wasted 7 minutes copying it over again...</p>
<p>Thanks for the link skydyed. Based on the guidelines in that link, my prediction is between a 102 and a 109. I really wish I had not skipped an entire passage on the MC. If I had actually budgeted my time better, I probably would have gotten anywhere from a 122 to a 129. Oh well :D I have faith that I'll get an extremely high 4 if not a low 5. Good luck to the rest of you!</p>
<p>do you think its a bad thing that every one of my essays turned out to be 2 pages long?!?</p>
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OMG i skipped ahead to essay 3 after essay 1, but then wrote it on essay 2's space.... i wasted 7 minutes copying it over again...
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my proctor let a girl in my room recopy all of her essays after time was called because she wrote them on the wrong pages! it's unfair, but if i were in her position i'd already have enough stress (i'd probably want to shoot myself) without having to deal with the office of testing integrity breathing down my back. oh welll</p>
<p>Laurstar, QUALITY OVER QUANTITY. Need I say more? I think you really should have read the directions on the back of the pink booklet (which said what graders would be looking for). I would say one or two paragraphs is unacceptably brief. If you were able to make a complete case in 2 pages, then there's nothing to worry about! ;)</p>
<p>No, because mine were all 2 pages long. It usually translates into 3+ pages on normal lined paper, because I wrote about as much as I would normally for practice essays. They seem to provide long lines and little space between the lines, making it seem shorter when it really probably isn't.</p>
<p>You don't write notes such as "I hated this test" etc. but you DO write "Had I had more time, I would have discussed _______"
Something related to the topic.
By policy, they cannot grade you off for time constraints, so as long as you show you know what the author was talking about, you'll do well.</p>
<p>i had pretty bad time management on the essays. on all 3 essays my first body paragraph was like twice the length of my third body paragraph (first body paragraph was like 3/4 of a page long tho)</p>