<p>I don’t know if my essays were good or if they sucked… I kind of had to cut off my 3rd essay in the middle of a sentence. The most important sentence of the whole essay, that definitively proved my thesis. Oh well, hopefully they’ll see where I was going with it. I was so excited when I saw the prompt for the 3rd essay because I knew immediately exactly what to write about, but then I got carried away and lost track of time. Other than that, the essays were easier than I thought.</p>
<p>This year, we read:</p>
<p>A Prayer for Owen Meany
Hippolytus
Antigone (I seriously have no idea why we did a Greek tragedy unit, I’ve never heard of anyone using anything like that on the test)
Hamlet
The Awakening
Their Eyes Were Watching God</p>
<p>And a few short stories and a long poetry unit. Seems like we read a lot less than other people’s classes did. And we did basically no AP prep until, like, 2 weeks ago. We literally wrote 2 timed essays all year, and one of those was on Tuesday as our Their Eyes Were Watching God final.</p>
<p>I almost feel like I would have done better on this exam last year, because this whole class was pointless and I think my writing’s actually gotten WORSE.</p>
<p>MC was easy! Aside from the last passage, I probably missed a few there. </p>
<p>Question 1 was excellent. Loved the poem and got some awesome symbolism and structure stuff out of it. Question 2 felt really limited, I basically called everything irony, juxtaposition, diction, or symbolism. Question felt very narrow; regardless of what book you chose, you were limited to discussing one event. I used Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff’s corruption, particularly after eavesdropping on Catherine and Ellen. </p>
<p>I really did not enjoy the second question, but the other two were ok. I just keep thinking I could have gotten a much worse poem, like a SONNET (ugh), and luckily we read the Kite Runner which is absolutely perfect for the prompt. Overall, I’m satisfied.</p>
<p>We read:
Frankenstein
The Kite Runner (you could have chosen from two others as well; Their eyes were watching god and Zorro)
Hamlet
Wuthering Heights
The Awakening</p>
<p>Is it okay to write 4 paragraphs instead of 5 if each body paragraph has significant detail? That’s what I did for two of the essays because I was running out of time…</p>
<p>I read: Frankenstein(self read), heart of darkness, hamlet, othello, Oedipus Rex, the inferno, east of Eden, the importance of being earnest, the oresteia</p>
<p>I didn’t keep good track of my time, so for the MC I had to leave 4-5 questions blank because the proctor called time. I couldn’t bubble in random answers because she collected my questions first. How detrimental to my score do you think this will be? I am fairly confident I wrote three decent essays (probably got a 7-8 on the first on, a 5-6 on the second one, and a 6-7 on the second one). And I felt rather confident about the MC choice as well. Do you guys think I got at least a 3, if not higher?</p>
<p>We read so many books this year. But our teacher prepared us well, I think.
Books/long poems we read:</p>
<p>King Lear
Hamlet
Paradise Lost
The Stranger
Metamorphosis
Catch-22
1984
East of Eden
Crime and Punishment
Pride and Prejudice
Frankenstein
Oedipus Rex
Antigone
Lord of the Flies
Daisy Miller
A Doll’s House
The Importance of Being Earnest
Heart of Darkness
The Canterbury Tales
Tess of the D’urbervilles</p>
<p>And I am not lying, we read all of these pieces.</p>
<p>I felt pretty good overall. Mc were a breeze and I probably broke 50. The first essay was nice and simple, just an easy poem. My essay may have been slightly superficial though. I loved the second prompt and focused my paper around the juxtaposition of the woman’s life to her dreams of a more worldly life. The third essay was where it got a little sketchy. My teacher was absolutely awful and all we read this year were Death of a Salesman, Heart of Darkness, Macbeth, and Ros an Gull are Dead. And of course, none of those really fit the category of a coming of age novel so I ended up writing about The Catcher in the Rye which I read four years ago so I was pretty fuzzy on details. But given the massive curve, I’m fairly positive I got a 5.</p>
<p>Books read:
Heart of Darkness
Wuthering Heights
Othello
Hamlet
Catch-22
Gulivers Travels
The Great Gatsby(soooo excited for the movie tommorow)
The Sun Also Rises</p>
<p>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn compliment question 3 perfectly.</p>
<p>Thought the multiple choice was fairly easy. I loved the pony poem, especially the one question option that said the ponies had a hidden motive. Didn’t do too hot on the essays, I kind of only scratched the surface in my analysis… But the last one was pretty nice. It was perfect for the book we just finished in class, Invisible Man!</p>
<p>Since everyone else is doing it, here’s what we read:</p>
<p>Slaughterhouse Five
Moby Dick
Othello
Siddhartha
The Stranger
No Exit
The Metamorphosis
Heart of Darkness
The Scarlet Letter
Invisible Man</p>
<p>I loved the open-ended essay! I just wrote a 5 page essay on this exact topic a month ago! I wrote about The Adventures of Huck Finn, it was magnificent. I felt like this question was made for me.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I asked this in another thread, but I’ll ask here as well. I think misnumbered my one of my essays because I was panicking with how much time I had left( I wrote two pages for the second question, but I put 2 in the number box in on the first page and 3 on the second page.) Will this hurt me, or will the readers realize I goofed. I’m worried because I thought the MC was easy and the essays were very doable, so I don’t want to hurt my score. Thanks.</p>
<p>I also really enjoyed the “hidden intentions of the ponies” question and almost laughed out loud when I read it. Multiple choice seemed easy, but I wasn’t ready for that open ended question, so I tried to pass The Poisonwood Bible off as a Bildungsroman.</p>
<p>We read:
Beowulf
Oedipus Rex
King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table
Macbeth
Hamlet
Heart of Darkness
Brave New World
Plato’s Republic
Utopia
The Poisonwood Bible</p>
<p>Not many people coming of age in those books, unless they allowed Bildungsschauspiele and you count Oedipus!</p>
<p>I though it was fairly easy, and I got a 5 on the Lang last year. I need a 5 on this one for it to count though for college. I was really surprised, because we read the pony poem in class as practice! The whole room gasped as each person got to it. I actually enjoyed the other readings which is rare. I did the essays 2,3,1 as that was the order of “easiness” for me. I think I got maybe a 7-9 on 2, 6-8 on 3 and 5-7 on 1. 1 felt very superficial as I couldn’t find too many poetic devices, so I just analyzed it in general.</p>
<p>@Sawtelle my teacher is an AP grader and he said that each grader is assigned one question. If your essay is marked as “3” it’ll go to an AP grader assigned to grade question 3. If your essay doesn’t answer the question, you’ll get whatever score corresponds to an off topic response. With that said, the curve is really generous, so you could completely skip an essay and still get a 4 or 5.</p>