<p>I'm think about taking it for Senior year. I am an A- English student in a regular English class. My essays are usually Bs or a B+, but on quizzes I always get As or an A+. I want a B+ or higher if I join the class and a 4 or 5 on the exam. Do you think AP English Literature is for me?</p>
<p>Well, no one here can really answer that because it depends on the school/teacher. At my school we have two AP Lit teachers: one who’s really easy and one who’s really hard. I have the really easy teacher, and this semester has been a complete joke. Friends who have the really hard teacher are always talking about how much work he gives them.</p>
<p>At my school, both teachers are equally tough. People have told me that there’s a lot of essays. </p>
<p>Coincidentally, I signed up for AP Lit today for next year. Yay?</p>
<p>AP Lit is perhaps one of the more useless APs. It’s more or less AP Poetry.</p>
<p>I think my class is some weird AP Lit outlier class. It’s January, and we have read ONE book all year- a short one, too. We’ve only had three written essays/assignments, and one was over the summer. The rest of the time we’ve been reading poety and looking at vague historical time periods. The other teacher’s class has read four hefty classics and has had tons of assignments. The lack of syllabus just makes it impossible to compare from class to class, in my experience.</p>
<p>Completely depends on the teacher. And it’s pointless lol</p>
<p>My teacher was pretty difficult, but she was easily one of the most intelligent teachers I’ve ever had. Now I ace essays like it’s nobody’s business.</p>
<p>NOOOOO!!! Take Lang. It’ll be more beneficial to you in the long run. I almost fell into the “Lit” trap too my junior year but I took Lang after I learned the truth. </p>
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<li>Most colleges don’t any credits you may have earned in Lit form the ap test.</li>
<li>Lang is subjectively more beneficial in the long run ie colleges jobs etc.</li>
<li>The writing is challenging and the reading causes you too use you brains in ways you dont normally use it. Its challenging and yet still a great class. And those who say thatang isn’t a challenging course is either lying or not taking the course seriously.</li>
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<p>AP Lang is by far easier than AP Lit. I almost think AP Lit is like an ‘AP version’ of AP Lang - that is, it’s another step higher. Lang helped me improve my writing, but idk what the hell is going on in Lit. Not only that, but I used to get mid to low A’s on my essays in AP Lang…now I get C’s in Lit ._.</p>
<p>@ephenst: In public schools where students have little amount of options (the vast majority of schools) and where AP Lang and Lit are provided, AP Lang is usually for Juniors and AP Lit is for Seniors. Students who take rigorous courses thus take both classes.</p>
<p>Anyways, I have one of the best English teachers in terms of his teaching skills. He constantly travel around the country to give lectures for College Board to other AP Lit teachers. So far, we’ve read 6 books and lots of poems. We’ve also written 15 essays (15 more for the rest of the year…) including 2 long, take-home essays. We also have a research paper coming up. </p>
<p>Naturally, his AP pass rate and number-of-students-who-received-a-5 are both significantly higher than the national average.</p>
<p>Lit is the one subject that people at my school rarely take.</p>
<p>Lit wasn’t hard because it’s not a knowledge-based test; it tests your skill to read and write about literature you’ve theoretically never seen before (there’s a chance you’ve read some of the stuff before, but it’s unlikely).</p>
<p>It’s pretty easy. We’ve read 5 novels and written 15+ essays. Now we’re doing poetry for the next five weeks :/. I guess it all depends on how good of a writer you are</p>