<p>I thought MC was pretty difficult. Maybe because I was suffering from intense allergies and was sneezing every 30 seconds or so..and I left like 6 blank. -_-;;</p>
<p>Essays were not that bad. Synthesis was easy, style analysis was EASIER, and argumentative was EASIEST. I'm feeling pretty good about the essays.</p>
<p>Wow aren't some of you being a bit too overconfident?</p>
<p>why do you categorize it as overconfidence? I haven't written anything below a 7 in class this year, and I've written 8s and 9s a lot of the time as well. My teacher's grades seem to be a pretty accurate predictor for how people will do on the AP exam, so unless something is really different, I think it's reasonable to expect a five. I'm generally paranoid so I'm of course sort of nervous, but I'll be pretty upset if I do worse than that.</p>
<p>Also, I would assume that the majority of people here are here because they are genuinely concerned/interested in their grade.. that alone means that they will probably do better than a normal cross-section of those who take the exam, haha.</p>
<p>this exam was not as hard as i would expect. i dont think i did that well in the mc section but the essay part i should have done well. i would expect a 3 or 4!</p>
<p>hmm, well if half of everyone else who took the AP Lang is feeling the same way most of you are feeling, then the curve is going to be a LOT tougher this year. Not that many people can get 5's. lol</p>
<p>Um, I don't take an AP English class, so this exam was kind of bad. My essays for English Lit were much better.</p>
<p>I love all of these people who are, only hours after finishing, confident that they made the highest score on a test graded overwhelmingly based on subjection. It's one thing to mention how forgiving YOU found the prompt or how simple YOU found the multiple choice, but to assume that the test must agree with these opinions because you said so might be over-estimating your own abilities: you are not psychic, and neither are you the omniscient resource on all things AP Language and Composition. Even your multiple choice answers, which should be graded seemingly objectively, cannot at this point be guaranteed to be right just because you interpreted them to be easy; it is possible for a question to trip you up, despite the fact that you guffawed aloud about its simplicity in the testing room. Similarly, just because your rhetorical analysis essay was, in your mind, your magnum opus, does not insure that the graders will feel the same way. Just because you've never lowered yourself to a certain score before in your english class doesn't mean that the graders will feel bad about lowering you to that score on the AP exam, if they weren't as impressed with your writing style as your english teacher, which is, in fact, possible. This test has a reportedly very, very low percentage of testers who score a five, and some of you have the nerve to proclaim definitively that you are one of them? It's a shame you can't get a refund on that $83 testing fee now; maybe you could have used it to buy yourself some humility.</p>
<p>Sorry, had to let that out.</p>
<p>BURN!
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<p>HAHHA i love you pfierce!!! seriously! LOL!
essentially, i agree...</p>
<p>Lol bazcat...(about your diatribe on college admissions offices XD)...</p>
<p>Anyway, pfierce, very well-said and I do admire your notion, as well as your OWN humility :). (Truly, I mean that with all earnestness! :).) But I do think it's a bit unrealistic to expect it of everyone else as well! I mean, CC is their place to rant...so I don't think anyone was particularly doing it to make others feel bad. (Though I suppose a few <em>may</em> have unintentionally had that effect - but even then, I'm sure they didn't realize it, or would regret it if they did.)</p>
<p>Still....I guess it's not unreasonable for you to point it out to everyone, in that case. But don't blame them. They're just so relieved that this uber-stressful exam was over, and expressing their joy that they came out alive! :D</p>
<p>haha pfierce just said a longer and way more passionate version of my post</p>
<p>I was PLEASANTLY SURPRISED!! Hoping for a 4 :-)</p>
<p>The MC was pretty easy except for a couple ones, especially on the first passage (that thing was EVIL!) My synthesis essay was a breeze, and I think the second one was pretty decent too. Except for the third essay, I was like "what the ***" and kind of bs'ed it (unfortunately, I had to use a lot of personal examples) </p>
<p>Is it okay if you didn't have conclusions at the end of each essay? I didn't have time :-(</p>
<p>Yeah liz, having no conclusions is fine. Well I mean, you might get knicked a fraction of a point (or perhaps a whole point if it really cuts off abruptly) for lack of a satisfying feeling when the AP readers finish the essay......but as long as you kind of round off the end of each essay, CB says a conclusion is nice, but not necessary - and certainly not as important as the quality of each body paragraph.</p>
<p>I agree, that first passage on the MC was death! I thought the rest of MCs were not too horrible, and the synthesis essay was also decent. But, those last two essays were pretty bad. Eh... I'm hoping for a 3 or higher anyways.</p>
<p><em>EDIT</em></p>
<p>I just read your post pfierce, and I totally agree! Some people are so pompous on here.</p>
<p>Is it bad that i doodled with the remainder of my test booklet? Drew the revolutionary war, tony soprano, batman, spiderman.... now i wish I hadn't</p>
<p>"One minute you're on top the next not you're not watch it drop"</p>
<p>Ok that wasn't too relevant, but I just felt like dropping an LP quote :D</p>
<p>how do you grade it??</p>
<p>MC - I was in panic mode, not because of the difficulty, they weren't that hard, but because i had to finish on time, luckly I did, but I had two guess on four of them since i didn't have much time on the last passage. The footnote questions ****ed me off, but they were ok i guess.</p>
<p>FRQ They were ALL pretty easy, the lowest i might have gotten was a 6. The synthesis essay was easier than I thought. I guess they went easy on us since we are the first ones to take the syn. essay. The strategy analysis was very easy, as was the argument essay.</p>
<p>Overall, i think i passed, but with what grade, i don't know. I think it's possible I got a 5, but who r knows, I'll just have to wait 'till july to find out.</p>
<p>@gdtmsailor: No way, so did I! And I thought it was rather ironic, considering I didn't like the first passage on the MC either. And yet, he ended up being part of my evidence in that last essay. Utilitarianism all the way!</p>
<p>I think I will be on the border between a 4 and a 5. Maybe. I don't really know how it's all figured. </p>
<p>MC was pretty much easy. (45+)
Nailed the Synthesis. (8)
Analysis not so great. (5-6)
Argumentative not so great. (6)</p>
<p>So, say I should get like a 47 or so on MC, what would I have to get on the essays for a 5?</p>