<p>tehcakeisaLIE: My teacher discouraged us from restating the propmt and took 10 points off our essays when we did so, but other teachers/graders maybe be fine with it. :)</p>
<p>Our teacher actually told us that it’s considered perfectly acceptable to restate the prompt, and many of the sample essays we were given from the collegeboard that got 9s HAD restated the prompt.</p>
<p>Will my score be canceled if I discuss the multiple choice questions in fifty years?</p>
<p>I didn’t restate the prompt… I went with more unconventional starter sentences.
I didn’t write conclusions for 2/3 of my essays, but my teacher said that that was fine if you didn’t have time.
I just kind of wrote a dramatic/melodramatic ending in the last body paragraph haha… like “blah blah blah blah…, and utterly worthless.”
Classic.</p>
<p>(z): Absolutely. CollegeBoard will hunt you down.</p>
<p>Hahahahahahhahahahahahaha does anyone know how much it hurts if you got a character name wrong on the open essay if the rest of the essay was good? I had a total brain blank…</p>
<p>I used “Death of a Salesman” is that a baby book? lol, i have no hopes of doing well on this, considering im basically illiterate when it comes to english. wats the raw score to get a 3?</p>
<p>Does anyone know how scoring works? I know there are 55 MC’s and each essay has a maximum score of 9, but MC is worth 45% and essays are worth 55%, how does that work out? Anyone know?</p>
<p>And anyone know approximately how well I have to do to score a 4? </p>
<p>Btw, I used Song of Solomon for the open prompt…</p>
<p>I thought the multiple choice was so much easier than anything we’d done in class. I answered every question and they were either I knew for sure, or I could narrow it down to 2 instantly. That also could mean hard curve for this year though LOL. </p>
<p>The free response was pretty straightforward too I thought except I killed myself. I got too into the first question, ended up writing five pages but taking up about an hour instead of forty minutes. I tried to rush on the second one (which was a bit harder because there wasn’t too many different things to talk about, just a lot of the same thing but it still wasn’t too bad) but ended up needing the whole forty minutes were supposed to have, and that left me with 20 for the open ended one. So even though that question for the open ended on was ridiculously simple and straightforward and could be applied to any book, I rushed a horrible essay and didn’t even get close to finishing.</p>
<p>I really bombed my AP lit exam today…I had the suckiest AP Lit teacher ever</p>
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<p>[How</a> to Score the AP English Literature Exam | Mr. Homer’s AP English Literature Website](<a href=“AP English Literature and Composition – AP Students”>AP English Literature and Composition – AP Students)</p>
<p>Don’t know if this is right though. Just googled it.</p>
<p>I don’t think it will hurt too much as long as the rest of the essay was well structured and all the other information was factual.</p>
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<p>Scoring is curved based on how well everyone else did. You get a raw score for the multiple choice: 1 point for every correct answer, 1/4 point off for every wrong answer, and no points for ones omitted. Then you get a raw score for your essays which is the sum of what you scored on each essay, multiplied by some number. They add the two for your total raw score and then give the scaled score based on how everyone else did. Basically they fit raw scores to a standard Gaussian distribution curve and just give the top whatever a 5, the average a 3, etc. So on every test it requires a different amount right/scores on your essays to get a certain score depending on how easy the test was so its hard to say at this point what would guarantee a certain score.</p>
<p>So relieved. This test seemed so much easier than the ones we did in class Oh, and for my third essay? I used the conch shell from Lord of the Flies. Super simple and super easy :)</p>
<p>Oh maynn, the conch shell was such a good symbol! I loved Lord of the Flies.</p>
<p>^ Haha so did I! I couldnt remember exactly who wrote it though. I remebered it was something Golding, so I took a chance and put William… turns out, thats who wrote it!</p>
<p>cien anos de soledad all the way</p>
<p>test didnt seem too bad. i ended up writing 3, 3, and 4 pages for the essays =o</p>
<p>multiple choice was ok i guess, i’m maybe a bit above average on that. i feel pretty good actually. we’ll see in about 2 months lol.</p>
<p>I don’t know how I did. The MC was really easy compared to what we did in class. </p>
<p>For the third essay I used The Kite Runner & wrote 2.5 pages. The prose I wrote 2 pages and the Shakespeare I only wrote 1 page and stopped in the middle. I feel like the length of everything is going to hurt my grade, what do you think? I got 8/9s on every essay in class.</p>
<p>was it ok to talk about tusks (i also talked about the natives tho to reinforce what i was talking about) for the 3rd one?</p>
<p>not at all. my english teacher says that ap readers like things straight to the point. esp. after reading hundreds of essays, they hate all the fluff that ppl put in their essays to make them seem longer. as long as you proved your point, it doesnt matter how long your essay is.</p>
<p>can anyone answer my quesiton? like if you guys read HoD, would it be a good idea to talk about ivory/tusks being a ______________ ( you guys know wut the blnak is…dont wanna say it tho)</p>