***Official AP Language and Composition 2012-2013 Thread***

<p>Anyone have any tips on how to approach the multiple choice section? Should you use line references like the sat? And other strategies like that.</p>

<p>@futfsu1
Look for what the question is asking:
-function (of the passage)
-content
-genre
-vocab in context
-purpose (what is the author’s purpose?)
-style
-tone
-inference
-divices
-point of view</p>

<p>When you see answers that start with a verb underline them and focus on the questions and the verbs only (not the rest of the answer). </p>

<p>Also you may want to review all rhetorical devices starting NOW.</p>

<p>Basically, just take notes while reading?
(I.e the authors tone is _____ in this paragraph, ______ means “_____” when used, etc.)</p>

<p>No I mean the questions themselves have these themes. If you can determine the category the question is asking you might be able to narrow it down. Also if you take a random practice test. List the questions category first and take it (within time limit) and see which are the one you missed like if you missed 3 function questions and 5 devices questions you know you would need to focus more on studying for those two.</p>

<p>Has anyone done the newest released version of the multiple choice? We used that for our mock exam and I found it okay, but the previous practice tests that I’ve being doing are not so good!</p>

<p>Any thoughts? Feedback? :)</p>

<p>2 more days; we can do this!</p>

<p>Any exams would suffice for AP Lang. You just need precision in MC and continuous higher than a 5 on essay to bring about a four.</p>

<p>2 days guys!</p>

<p>how helpful r cliffnotes and PR? realistic to the test? strategies?
just got em</p>

<p>Hey what are some examples you use for essays?</p>

<p>I’m slightly worried about the argument essay and the multiple choice.
Does anyone have any tips for coming up with examples in such a short amount of time for the argument essay? thanks</p>

<p>Im currently in the AP Lang and Comp class and Ive done a lot of essays and multiple choice sections. On the essays I score around 7s or 8s, and for the multiple choice I get around 15 wrong. For essays I would advise you to worry about time the most, since all three of the essays are clumped together. For the argument essay, I generally use pop culture examples/school examples/modern day examples. I believe these essays arent similar to the SAT ones where you need to have historical example, literature example, etc. For the essays, its really hard to try and come up with a secret “formula”, because the best essays are the ones that have a little “pizazz”, but yet manage to stay appropriate. I use Princeton Review, which is sufficient for the vocabulary and the rhetorical modes necessary for the rhetorical essay, but it does not include common and necessary terms like asyndeton, polysyndeton, epistophe, etc. which are all needed for the multiple choice. I like to read a single paragraph and answer the questions based on that one paragraph because these are very difficult passages with a lot of complex sentence structure/vocabulary/analogies/allusions to gulp in at once.</p>

<p>@basketballfire72</p>

<p>how do you immediately know which question goes with which paragraph? wouldn’t it take too much time to sift through the MC to see what goes with it? or is it sequential?</p>

<p>How can one improve one’s MC score? So far, my friends and I have gotten in the early 30s.</p>

<p>What specific rhetorical devices do we need to know?</p>

<p>how do you guys use your time on the essays? like whats your process of approaching essay questions? do you spend like 5 minutes reading the passage, underlining things? etc?
I think I’m in trouble for the essays mainly; I usually get ~3-5 wrong on multiple choice practices ive done so far in class and stuff, but i haven’t really studied and i’m not so good at writing essays quickly.</p>

<p>@Remembrance There are two main ways I do this. If the paragraph is short, I read the paragraph and then look to the multiple choice quickly. Generally there are many questions that involve line references or ask questions about particular paragraphs. If the paragraph is long, I do the opposite and I look to the questions quickly, see if there are any specifics involving that section, and then keep them in mind as I read the paragraph and answer right after. The questions follow and chronological order so it is better to try to break up each passage instead of trying to gulp all the information at once. </p>

<p>@AimHigh2 You have to look at what you’re getting wrong. If you are getting questions that involve rhetorical devices/rhetorical figures/rhetorical fallacies/figurative language wrong, then those you just have to learn them and your score will probably go up by a few questions each test. With the one day time, that is probably your best option. Its sort of similar to the SAT Cr sections, you just need to practice and understand what you are getting wrong to improve</p>

<p>@yangmaster You need to know the rhetorical fallacies (Ad hominem, false authority, appeal to ignorance, begging the question, hasty generalization, false dichotomy, non sequitur, slippery slope, faulty causality, straw man argument, sentimental appeals, red herring, scare tactics, bandwagon appeals, dogmatism, equivocation, and false analogy) and the rhetorical modes (example/illustration, classification, comparison and contrast, analogy, process analysis, cause and effect, definition, category, description, narration, induction, and deduction)</p>

<p>Tomorrow the big day guys.</p>

<p>Guys, i heard the exam tomorrow got moved. Idk if it’s true though. I’m still waiting on a reply from trevor. Ahhhh i’m freaking out.</p>

<p>I’m not taking the Lang exam, Kpopzz, but I took Lit today, and at our school, Language is still tomorrow.</p>

<p>^how was the lit exam?</p>