<p>I worked very hard for AP Language and ended up with a 90 both semesters. I know that it is a class that you can't really study for, but I worked so hard on my out of class essays. I made so many people proof-read them too before I submitted them. I made a 3 on AP Lang. exam (passed it). </p>
<p>I was wondering if AP Literature has the same basic requirements such as making arguments in your essays. Are the multiple choice questions as hard as AP Language? (the only thing I was good at in AP Lang. was writing timed essays. i was able to make an argument in that specific time frame.) Also, is the grading on essays harder or easier than AP Lang? I keep hearing that it totally depends on the teacher etc, but there are similar things we do in those classes. How can I succeed in that class with an A? Any tips are appreciated.<br>
Thank you. </p>
<p>I have seen some old threads on AP Literature, but they seem outdated.</p>
<p>I’m taking AP Lit this coming year, and from what I’ve heard, it’s harder than AP Lang. At my school, AP Lang was either very hard or very easy. My teacher made us write a lot of long, out of class essays, and your scores on these basically determined your grade. Luckily, writing’s one of my strong suits, so it was pretty easy. But AP Lit, I gather, will be pretty tough. At least at my school. I love writing and reading, but I don’t like reading most of the stuff the school assigns. Right now, I’m reading The Invisible Man for homework, and I just read an 8 page sermon, and I almost died -.-</p>
<p>wow a sermon… that’s very … uninteresting. But I think it is worth it. I don’t want to take English again in college (although its a medical school requirement).</p>
<p>It definitely depends on your teacher. My school didn’t offer an AP Eng Lang course but a few of us took the exam anyway. I didn’t really study for the exam specifically but I still thought it was pretty easy (on second thought, I think I was actually just really lucky since I’m pretty sure I had no idea what I was doing for the SAT-type essay). My Lit class wasn’t difficult per se, but it was a hell of a lot of work. The teacher expected a lot out of us. It worked out in the end since all but two of us passed and the majority received 4s and 5s.</p>
<p>I think Lit is theoretically more difficult (although it could be because I struggle with poetry) but because you walk into the class with the skills you gain from Lang it’s not as hard.</p>
<p>Content wise, AP Lit tends to be less intense than AP Language. The honest truth is that you can 4 or 5 both exams if you’re an exceptional test taker or a know your English stuff.</p>
<p>If you’re an excellent English student, you can scrape by with minimal preparation. Having taken both exams, I did not find one to be harder than the other - in fact, in my opinion, they were both very easy.</p>
<p>It all boils down to whether or not you have aptitude with regard to the subject.</p>
<p>I will say, however, that it pays to know some specialized terms for Language. Literature doesn’t require you to do the rhetorical analysis essay, so there’s a lot of gobbledygook you can get away with not knowing.</p>
<p>In my experience, the AP Lit MC questions are more difficult than those found on AP Lang. Regarding essay grading, AP Lit essays are graded according to what you write (i.e. depth of analysis) while AP Lang essays are graded according to how you write (i.e. sophisticated style).</p>
<p>We don’t have an AP Language class or an AP Lit class. Rather, AP English 11 prepares you for AP Lit test, and AP English 12 prepares you for AP Lang and Lit.</p>
<p>I passed the AP English Lit test with a 3, and found the test to be extremely hard. The MC for the poems was killer and the essay questions were complex.</p>
<p>It may be different at your individual high schools, but in terms of passing rates and difficulty of tests, AP Lit is generally right behind AP Physics in terms of difficulty</p>