<p>Okay, one hour later and I’m all refreshed on A Tale of Two Cities, Lolita, Arcadia, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Now as long as the prompt is about revolutions, pedophilia, hermits, or coin tosses, I’m set.</p>
<p>Is my teacher the only one who hasn’t gone over what they’re looking for on any of the essays? Uuuuuugh off to do more googling. I don’t know how anyone used to prep for APs without the internet.</p>
<p>I can’t remember if they recommended we could use Night (by Elie Wiesel) or not, if anyone could let me know if we can that’d be great!</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness: everything
Great Gatsby: social issues, excess
Lolita: incompatibility, the past (unlikely to come up as topics this year)
Catch-22: anything to do with uses of paradox, irony, incongruity</p>
<p>I think I’m ready.</p>
<p>I’ve reread 3 books in preparation for this exam: The Kite Runner, Brave New World and Wuthering Heights. These books were my favorites, so I was able to read through all of these in a week. I plan on taking two practice MC tonight, but I don’t think I’ll have time to read the lengthy solutions. After that, I’m just going to read high-scoring sample essays from past AP tests; reading them will allow me to “adjust” myself to write like them too. Sounds weird, but it helped me get a 4 on the AP English Language test last year!</p>
<p>I’ve already demolished Calculus AB, so I hope to do the same tomorrow for English Lit! Afterward, I’ll only have Physics C: Mech and US Gov’t left. :)</p>
<p>Ok, I just want to complain for a second… 
books we have read in my AP English class:
The Scarlet Letter
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
Medea
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
Hamlet
Macbeth
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
A Doll’s House
The Awakening
Huck Finn
Death of a Salesman
Ellen Foster
The Things They Carried
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Tale of Two Cities
Equus</p>
<p>not to mention the 2-3 essays we write a week and the 16 short stories we had to read… is anyone else’s AP English class like this?</p>
<p>geez, musicforlife person, no… how do you even have time to talk about all those works in depth? did you go over much poetry?? we read eight long works, going at 30-50 pages a night, but we did tons of poetry too and lots of prose/poetry response practices…
ha your teacher must be a bit crazy (: reading all that is not going to really prepare you for an exam about depth of analysis, though you’ll be able to pick the perfect work for whatever prompt comes up, i guess! (though there’s no need to have all those to choose from if you can only memorize the details and quotes from two or three or so!)
so yes, just justifying your complaint haha : )</p>
<p>haha yup, we spent a month and a half on poetry…we’ve read like at least 25… and we were verrrry in depth with all the works. we fit it all in, but the class is insane and we’ve done like six full blown practice tests. i’d say i can’t wait for it to end but after the ap test we’re still reading two more books and writing like a 15+ page research paper…</p>
<p>And in order to memorize details and quotes we had to make notecards for each one to review…so i have three packs of notecards full of ap english stuff as a result… if i can’t think of the perfect book for the freewrite then there is no justice in the world! lol</p>
<p>The test was fine.</p>
<p>That’s what I thought too…wonder whether this will mean the curve will be reallllly harsh…</p>
<p>The memorization of the material in a long list of works for review purposes is inefficient and takes away from various other areas of merit on which one can practice…each work possesses several notable characters, each one having the ability to fit several of the broad-type essay questions that the FR3 is known to ask. Because of this, the astute knowledge of the character studies, underlying themes, etc., of a handful of particularly reputable works of literature will be more than enough. The sheer size of the list of suggested titles itself testifies to the broadness of the topics at hand, so there really is little to no need to dedicate oneself to the meticulous memorization of too many of them (if the study of these is only for the essay, that is. Obviously they are wonderful and useful reads in any case.)</p>
<p>That said, I think it was a fair test. The essay questions were very good, and I think the curve will not be too generous for it. </p>
<p>For those who took it today, how many pages did you write for each essay?</p>
<p>I found the multiple choice to be decent, but I disliked the Essays. Especiallythe first one.
I’ll probably get a three or something.
I wrote like 2 pages for the first two, and 2.5 pages for the last one. But I write really small. I got lucky on the last one, because we did none of the books on the list, but I chose one of them for independant reading. No one in my class other than me had read a book on that list.</p>
<p>I didn’t like the multiple choice because I usually zone out when reading them (especially the poems) but I thought the essays were good. The first one was probably my weakest but the other two were definitely strong. I wrote two pages for the first two and 2.5 for the third.</p>
<p>I thought the test was very nice actually! It wasn’t “mind melting” like past students have told me it was. I did 2 pages and a couple lines on the third page for each essay.</p>
<p>@Karategirl431993
Yeah I also seemed to zone in and out when working on the MC.
A few of the passages were easy to read and answer but others I was just zoning out on.<br>
I thought the essays were relatively easy. The first two didn’t seem very hard and the last seemed like I could have have used quite a few books to answer. All in all I feel I did decent on the FR 7-9’s but not very well on the MC. It’s either been a hit or miss when doing the brief practice MC in class.</p>
<p>I thought the multiple choice were relatively easy. I liked both of the poems and it was nice that the easy passage was the one with the most questions. That said, I’m usually pretty good with AP multiple choice.</p>
<p>As for the essays, I did 3,1,2. I thought my first essay was pretty good for one that was written in 45 minutes (~3 pages), my second essay was good (~2.5 pages), and my third essay was decent (~2 and a few lines). It kinda deteriorated as I went on, but I tend to use good vocabulary so maybe the readers will be tricked into giving me a six :P</p>
<p>Our AP English class is such a joke, though, it’s just a 2 period supplement to honors English. We read like 2 books all year, and had almost no essay preparation. I heard that only around 7% get fives though, so I’m not getting my hopes up…</p>
<p>Essays 1 and 2 were 2 pages each and the third essay was 2.5</p>
<p>Ponies poem and Marius prose by far the easiest. I didn’t care for the Grief poem.</p>
<p>I thought the MC was pretty hard. I’m pretty sure I got around 30/55 of them correct worst case scenario. I was very happy with the essays. I wrote 3.5 solid pages for each one, and I think I got at least a 7 across the board. </p>
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<p>I thought the Cranford prose was the easiest.</p>
<p>what did people think of the grief poem? whatd you put for the answers?</p>