<p>Never mind it was only some schools who postponed it due to cheating. Sigh.</p>
<p>We barely practiced the multiple choice sections in school (like 3 passages this entire year) and apparently, I suck at them :(</p>
<p>I consistently get > 10 wrong on MC but my essays are always around 5-6… How do I improve my essays? It’s so aggravating because I’m on the borderline for a 5, but the essays could bring it down to a 4.</p>
<p>Anyone have tips for doing the FRQs? I’m self-studying for this exam and I’m really nervous about them! The argumentative seems like a typical SAT essay so I’m not too worried about that, but the other two are a little confusing to me. I’m using the PR book to prepare and they’re talking about rhetorical fallacies/rhetorical modes… But I don’t understand how those concepts fit into the FRQs (other than maybe referencing the concepts in the rhetorical analysis essay…)</p>
<p>Same boat, but I’m feeling really calm and confident about this exam.</p>
<p>Whoops, meant to say less than 10 wrong, not more than 10 wrong. Anywho - I’ve been looking at sample essays and it seems to me that the essays that get a 5 or 6 are pretty average, both in terms of supporting evidence and grammar/syntax. So I honestly think my teacher has been grading us a bit more harshly than the real AP test. This makes me feel better.
The biggest thing to remember for the synthesis question is to NOT use all the sources. If you do that, you run the risk of weakening your argument.</p>
<p>A majority of our class was intimidated by the FRQ, or the opinion, which I don’t think will be that hard… I mean, it’s not really as right/wrong as the others. I’m absolutely terrible at rhetorical analysis… Like on DBQs (APUSH helped for this, I took it last year) and FRQs I’m confident of a >5, but rhetorical analysis is like a stretch. The multiple choice, I feel like I can’t do much more, I usually miss like 5-11 total…</p>
<p>@ashp23 I’m like the same. It’s as if I just resigned myself to whatever I’m going to get. I’m just telling myself, though, “I’m going to work my ass off tomorrow and come out with no regrets.” And for the rhetorical devices and fallacies, I think our teacher is teaching them more so for the multiple choice so we actually know what they are rather than for the FRQs.</p>
<p>And one more, our teacher keeps on telling us to write a boatload, and I can never get beyond the front and back of a single piece of notebook paper (although mine’s one of those big Five Stars or Meades, so I suppose that’s like 2.5…)</p>
<p>Difference between synthesis/argumentative/analysis?</p>
<p>What to remember for tomorrow:</p>
<ol>
<li>Something to fill out the scantron</li>
<li>How to read</li>
</ol>
<p>…In all seriousness, I don’t think there’s much we (my classmates and I at least) can do for this test. My teacher gave us very little work this year compared to the other Lang teacher in our school, and we did better on the mock AP tests than the other teacher’s students. On the MC I took, there were NO answers that were rhetorical devices. Not even metaphor. They were in some choices, like metonymy, asyndeton, etc, but none were answers. </p>
<p>Another tip: My teacher recommended reading the rhetorical analysis essay before the synthesis during the reading period, because the synthesis docs are easy to read and one can fly through them in <6-7 min, and you don’t need to as much time thinking as in the other two. Just an idea.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Does anyone have a good strategy to begin the rhetorical essay?</p>
<p>This MC is going to kill me…not able to see a 5 in the future.</p>
<p>For the Rhetorical essay, leave it last and hope that you’re used to writing from the other 2 essays which are more generic.</p>
<p>4 inc.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone. I’m expecting a 3 but shooting for a 4. For me it doesn’t matter if it’s a 4 or 5.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone. Don’t stress it…it’ll only make your performance even worse.</p>
<p>It’s all good…it’s all goooooooood.</p>
<p>I thought that multiple choice was rough. About how many could you get for a 5 with decent/slightly above average essays?</p>
<p>Me and most of my friends thought it was really easy mc and tough essay q’s, mostly #3.</p>
<p>Like I said…the MC killed me</p>
<p>My class had mixed opinions about the MC, and most of them said the essay questions were tough-ish. I personally thought the MC was relatively easy, and the only essay I thought was difficult was #3. I ended up writing three different components of the topic but the prompt was confusing and I have no idea how well (or awful) I did on that one. :/</p>
<p>I thought the MC was eh. It was easy on some questions but I felt myself having to skip a few. It seems like EVERYONE thought the 3rd essay was the hardest but it was the easiest for me to think of examples and such (I think everyone’s just dead after the first 2). The 1st essay was the worst for me and I hated the prompt, and the 2nd was pretty good! Overall, I think I got a 4.</p>
<p>When does everyone finish taking the test?</p>