<p>I found the grief poem extremely annoying and had to re-read it a few times. We aren’t allowed to discuss the questions and the answers we put.</p>
<p>Ahh that was the last poem? I just adored it so much. Everyone seemed to think it was tricky but I thought it was one of the easier ones. True grief is silent. </p>
<p>Essays were easy but I didn’t review literary devices so I didn’t have many in my repertoire to choose from. Probably did fine though. The last essay was so fun but I used…The Lovely Bones by Alice Siebold and may have done a bit too much plot summary. It was extremely easy to write though.</p>
<p>The last passage that most people disliked was about intelligence and power and how they don’t always lead to happiness.</p>
<p>I thought the multiple choice were relatively easy. Ish. I hated the last passage though.</p>
<p>For each of my essays I wrote one page front and back, and then one and a half. So I guess 3 1/2 per essay. But I always do that :p. Didn’t like the first prompt. It was hard for me to write. The rest were good though. Especially the last one–we read Crime & Punishment :)</p>
<p>I actually really liked all the part 1 passages! The questions were pretty easy, I think, and I enjoyed reading everything. </p>
<p>The grief one was the hardest IMO. I read it, interpreted it one way, then reread it and completely changed my interpretation so I basically went back and changed a bunch of answers.</p>
<p>I wrote about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for the essay. As I was writing, it felt like kind of a stretch but it was on the list of suggested works so hopefully their logic is the same as mine was.</p>
<p>What exactly is “5” range for multiple choice? And it appears nobody used Scarlet Letter for the 3rd essay except me haha The grief question was rather difficult in my opinion and completely changed my interpretation of it after reading the questions… I’m so nervous 
i wish we didn’t have to wait until july</p>
<p>Lol, you don’t have to choose a book on that list.
My teacher tells us to cross it out every time. It’s just there to scare you</p>
<p>I thought the MC was okay. Not to hard, not to terribly easy. It’s just like all the other one’s we’ve been doing in class. </p>
<p>The Q1 essay was probably my strongest, Q2… idk how I did to be honest. Q3 I wrote about Anatole in The Posionwood Bible. That prompt was tailor made to it. </p>
<p>We’ve taken 3 released test as practice AP test in class and I’ve gotten a 4 and two 5’s on them. I hope I at least get a 4 on this one. <em>fingers crossed</em></p>
<p>MC was so much easier than I expected! It was so hard on every other test I practiced. So happy for that MC.</p>
<p>I’m horrible with timing- no conclusions on first two essays. But I made my point clear, I think. Hoping the MC will cover me for a 3-4.</p>
<p>Open question was nice (all the essay prompts were mild and manageable); I used Hamlet- it seemed perfect for the prompt.</p>
<p>@Swimfreak001
Nope, your not alone! We read a whopping 3 books in my AP Lit class this year. The teacher was TERRIBLE and the class was HUGE, so we only managed to read Scarlet Letter, Great Gatsby, and Song of Solomon…</p>
<p>I really freaked out when I looked at the book list for the open question, realized that I had read none of them, and then realized that I couldn’t think of any book that I had read to fit the topic. Scarlet Letter was a REAL stretch - I basically wrote my essay on Sin & Redemption and said that Redemption was the Justice that Hester had been seeking, and was afforded to her by the community, if not necessarily God or the puritan leaders.</p>
<p>I found the multiple choice super easy - the grief poem was actually my favorite. </p>
<p>Q1 was really easy - the poem was contemporary and really easy to understand.</p>
<p>The passage from Q2 was really straight forward, but I had a tough time finding what to talk about, and found nothing worthwhile in narrative stance (I used diction and selection of detail… you can probably see the issue there.)</p>
<p>Again, Q3 SUCKED. I’ve done a few practice tests, and have had no problem using one of the three books that we read this year. This one… yeah, it was a REAL stretch. I think that the question was way too specific.</p>
<p>Ahh yeah the intelligence and power one was a little rougher but I still didn’t mind it. The one I had lots of trouble was the longer prose passage. Can’t remember what that was about either. I must have been brain dead I can’t remember anything.</p>
<p>Well guys, just 71 (ish) more days until we find out just how hard the Grief poem was or just how effective our use of a novel was in Q3.</p>
<p>Also, is there a way to view a more complete score report online using the AP number or something? Last year I only got the paper report with the final grades only; is there a way to see breakdowns?</p>
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<p>Agreed, but I think that they’ll be really liberal with the definition of justice. Your essay sounds fine and it’ll definitely be a nice break from all the literal courtroom examples and “Tom Robinson therefore was failed by the justice system at the end of To Kill A Mockingbird” essays that I’m sure they’ll be reading. Some of the past prompts have been really specific;</p>
<p>2006- Many writers use a country setting to establish values within a work of literature. For example, the country may be a place of virtue and peace or one of primitivism and ignorance. Choose a novel or play in which such a setting plays a significant role. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the country setting functions in the work as a whole.</p>
<p>I mean, really! You could come prepared with ten books that you know inside and out and maybe none of them happen to take place in the country.</p>
<p>I used 1984, since I knew that book pretty much by heart, even though it was not an assigned book for my school. I pretty much spilled my guts out in that essay.</p>
<p>My class also only read three books, The Things they Carried, Macbeth, and Kite Runner.
We had 4 summer reading books, but other than Hamlet and Beloved, I didn’t remember anything about them. The Grief one was hard, but once I started doing the questions, I got the handle of it. The last passage was the hardest for me. I sort of rushed through it. The Cranford one was by far the easiest.
The first essay was just downright annoying. Second was alright.
Did anyone use A Thousand Splendid Suns for Q3? It was on the list, but no one in my class used it. One kid only wrote two paragraphs because the list didn’t have anything we read in class, and he couldn’t think of anything else. Another kid only answered 22 MC questions.</p>
<p>The test was much easier than what I was expecting.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone saying that the multiple choice was easy and straightforward. The essays were also simple for me. I wrote 3 pages for the first, 2.5 for the second, and 4 for the third. I wrote my open-ended novel about The Fountainhead.</p>
<p>Agreed amoreni. I had been prepared to go out fighting, but I was surprised at just how easy it was. Ah well. July will tell.</p>
<p>That test was kinda easy. I don’t want to jinx myself, but I honestly think the practice ones in PR are harder. </p>
<p>I hated the ponies poem, just WHAT were that last verses about? (don’t answer that). And the Mario or w.e his name was, I hated that. And omfgzzzz I almost had a heart attack when I had a couple minutes left and I saw I had like three prose passages to go, but then realized they just re-printed one, I guess to facilitate your reading; almost died, seriously.</p>
<p>I absolutely adored the poetry essay, it was pretty cute, I wrote like 3 pages per essay, but I write like a dinosaur (huge) and yea I guess it doesn’t really count. And I used Oedipus woooot. It was even on the list, not that it matters, but yea, pretty much everyone I’ve asked wrote about Hamlet; I feel good right now, probably got a 4.</p>
<p>I thought my essays for the poetry and prose were decent at the time, but now I starting to doubt their organization and cogency.</p>
<p>For the open ended question I used The Stranger by Camus and talked about how humans cannot create true justice. I thought it was pretty solid, but we’ll see.</p>
<p>For the MC, I definitely thought it was pretty easy, but who knows with literature. My interpretations could have been completely off. I’ve always thought it’s hard to standardize something that leaves each reader with a unique interpretation. Until July.</p>