<p>I believe I said average but in retrospect I don’t think that was right.</p>
<p>Also, what did people get for the one question about the girl in NYC where it asked from lines 1-7 what situation was she in? (argumentative situation or something else? I forgot what I got but i didn’t get argumentative situation)</p>
<p>Huh? I don’t remember that question.</p>
<p>I believe I hesitated between humble and average, then went with average. I felt as though the writer dude wanted to refer to the average animals on earth. Don’t quote me on that though.</p>
<p>For the Birds/Clocks question, I believe I put down marking time by singing.</p>
<p>I didn’t pick rekindled pleasure. I think I wrote down spiritual salvation? I hesitated on that one, but spiritual salvation felt more right to me.</p>
<p>As for the girl in NYC questions referring to lines 1-7, I put down that it introduced her long, rambling speaking observational style. I think that was choice E.</p>
<p>I said average for mean, and that the birds sung. For the piano setting I said imagining a women playing the piano as it was all future (so imagining) and the first 2 lines mentioned “her fingers” and something “pink”.</p>
<p>Cool, put down the part about the observational style as well! </p>
<p>What about the passage about the guy whose daughter had “met up” with two strangers? Did anybody get “contradictory feelings” for the question about his statement at the end?</p>
<p>Yeah, i got contradictory feelings
and the one about the sentence about forgiveness in the same passage was it something along the lines of “need more than human impulses to reach forgiveness?”</p>
<p>One more: for one of the answers, did anyone get “Like her brother, people viewed her as unusual…”</p>
<p>@Student2407: I chose the same thing! The entire thing was in future tense like “one day I shall” and so I believed it was that he was imagining the music and the cry of outbursts.</p>
<p>Actually I’m not sure what I got for the forgiveness question, but I did get “Like her brother, people viewed her as unusual…” for one of the questions about the NYC girl.</p>
<p>How did you guys study for this exam? I was going to take this today but decided against it since I felt that I was not prepared enough.</p>
<p>Did not study. Went in completely blind, without even taking a practice test or getting a book. Of course, it helps that I’m in AP Lang and have been in English H classes almost my entire high school career, so yeah.</p>
<p>If you expect it to be like critical reading, be ready to be surprised. Critical reading on SAT I gives you line references and the questions are a lot more literal and concrete but I feel like literature is based more on the passage as a whooole. I took the practice tests in the back of a prep book and it didnt help me at all. It honestly depends on each person how well they are at interpreting the poems. and quite honestly, either you get the works or you don’t…</p>
<p>I’m also in AP Lang, but when I took the few practice passages on the CB website, I only got like 10 out of 14 or something. It was easy to interpret modern passages (for the most part), but those metaphorical poem questions were just crazy. :P</p>
<p>For me, I studied using the PR/Barron’s books. I also did some of the tests from them, but I never got above a 690 in Barron’s purely because of all the literary term questions in them. Barron’s is much much harder than the real thing.</p>
<p>PR on the other hand I would say is a little harder, if not the same.</p>
<p>But still you’ll need a lot more skill then on SAT I CR, like the others have said. The poems are something that if you don’t get right away you’ll have to study a lot for.</p>
<p>Anyways, two more questions; on the passage about the NYC girl, did anybody get “imaginative flights” or something similar for the blurb about her brother in the first paragraph?</p>
<p>Also about the passage about the dad and her daughter, did anybody get an answer with “stoic” for the question that was about what the dad and his son meant by “fortitude”?</p>
<p>I got imaginative flights for that question, mtgmakid. </p>
<p>You guys are right about hot and cold. I can’t believe I missed such a “gimme’” question. :(</p>
<p>I also seem to have gotten the bird symbolism question wrong…</p>
<p>Oy vey. </p>
<p>I guess I’ll end up taking this again in June.</p>
<p>I found it rather amusing that they included a passage from “The Yellow Wallpaper.” I had just been thinking about that short story a while before the test. Creepy creepy.</p>
<p>And for “Man” by Henry Vaughan, I’m fairly sure “mean” meant “humble” because of the contrast between the complexity and restlessness of human life versus the rest of nature. And after reading this thread, I’m thinking I’m probably wrong… </p>
<p>Complex can be an antonym for “average,” but “humble” is a synonym for “simple.” I’m so confused now.</p>
<p>As for the passage about the man being angry about his daughter going away to her suitor, I think “fortitude” meant his love for his daughter versus something about propriety. He loves his daughter, but he was going to go after the suitor (possibly kill him), and that’s not very moral.</p>
<p>I think I said humble as well, but I can’t remember for sure. </p>
<p>There doesn’t seem to be a consensus about “fortitude”.</p>
<p>Could anyone recommend (reference) books for studying poems? I’m one of the people who suck at poetry. Actually I rarely read poems before I decided to take literature. Just have no real passion for that kind of literature. Some people say that it doesn’t really help if you read a lot, and even reading Shakespear’s poems helps a little, is this right? And what are you guys techniques for analyzing the effects of certain words or phrases?</p>
<p>I’m also taking barrons tests and stick to 42 or 44 raw score(about 690), do I still have chance to get a 800 on June Lit? </p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>One more question, does reading/doing Barrons AP Lang (tests) help?</p>
<p>If I recall correctly, there’re few technical, advanced terms that you really had to know. It was more about actually understanding the texts - there’s no easy way. I tend to skim over it once to get a sense of the text, look at the questions, and break up the text accordingly using them as reference. Most of the time, there should be textual evidence that’s actually in the text to substantiate the answer choices.</p>
<p>Inspired by StudiousMaximus in the Math II thread, any 800 hopefuls?
Add your name to the list!! </p>
<p>800 Hopefuls:</p>
<ol>
<li>retrohippo</li>
</ol>
<p>Can anyone confirm that this is the same test:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11877560-post105.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11877560-post105.html</a></p>