<p>I haven’t taken ap lang yet, sorry. My friend who has done a practice ap lang exam multiple choice passage and a lit sat 2 one says that the ap lang is easier, but that is only one passage and one person, and he didn’t tell me any specific differences or similarities.</p>
<p>Harvey, I believe the question was something along the lines of “The allusion to Antigone serves to do which of the following:”</p>
<p>My answer was illustrate the depth and timelessness of her suffering, pretty sure that is correct.</p>
<p>Also, I believe the reference favors the “elemental human experience” answer in a later question, because it shows that her feelings are not particular to her, and that humans have always battled grief.</p>
<p>People keep saying Maggie was “self-denial,” but she was clearly diplomatic.</p>
<p>^Orly? I disagree. She was not being diplomatic…yes, she did diffuse the situation, but not merely to cool Wangero’s anger. What she did was something of profound generosity and magnamity. She denied her own desires and overlooked them for the sake of her sister. A diplomat would merely alleviate the tensions and reason-out a solution.</p>
<p>cookietime,</p>
<p>I think either can be argued for. </p>
<p>The question is “Contrasted with her sister, what best characterizes Maggie in the last 4 lines of the passage?”. She does solve the problem of who gets quilt, so in that sense she is diplomatic (compared to her troublemaking sister). </p>
<p>She does deny herself the quilt, even though it was promised to her, so in that sense she is self-denying (compared to her self-centered sister). I said self-denying because of the sentence: “she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her.” That is all the information we get about Maggie outside of her dialogue, and if her dialogue can go either way, I think the following sentence is clear enough evidence for my answer, since there can only be one answer, and as evil as the collegeboard can be, they make sure that you don’t simply have to guess.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the answer to a previous question describes Dee as self-centered, and I think that by choosing to include “contrasted to her sister” in the question, they hint that they are looking for self-denying, since Dee wants everything for herself, while Maggie willingly takes nothing.</p>
<p>Of course, you can say that contrasted to her sister who started the fight, Maggie ends it, and that makes her the diplomat, but I just don’t think that is the best way to describe her, because as deadmonkey said, she did not end conflict fairly, she just gave up.</p>
<p>Does this seem reasonable for the curve? I saw this curve somewhere else..
61 to 56 = 800
55 = 790
54 & 53 = 780
52 = 770
51 = 760
50 = 750
49 = 740
48 = 730
47 = 720
46 = 710
45 & 44 = 700
43 = 690
42 = 680
41 = 670
40 = 660
39 = 650</p>
<p>Seems reasonable to me.</p>
<p>weren’t there only sixty questions? how would you get 61?</p>
<p>Tests have between 60 and 63 questions–that’s just a curve for a former test but it’s probably pretty accurate all the same.</p>
<p>dudeeee omg it was so hard ==
i ran out of the time in the end, and was rushing like crazy.
i think i probably did really bad..</p>
<p>I’m almost positive that the dangling things were spiders’ corpses, I remember a lot of textual evidence for that.</p>
<p>Also, does it seem ridiculous to anybody else how ambivalent some of these questions are? Many came down to seeming very subjective, and I think that’s being further proven in these forums.</p>
<p>Also, I think one of the q’s about the Maine Grass was “the elemental human experience,” I’m pretty sure that there was really no pessimism involved, just sadness.</p>
<p>Agreed about the subjectivity but I think that’s just the nature of the test. Same thing with Critical Reading. You just have to learn to discern how the CollegeBoard would WANT you to interpret something…</p>