<p>alright, so my government teacher all year has said that on the FR section, to answer part A, B, C, and so on individually, and to NOT bother answering them in a formal essay fashion like you would an essay for APUSH or APES. Then today, i was looking at Princeton Review practice tests, and they say to answer all parts of a question in one large essay, without distinguishing where you answer each part of the question. Now I'm really confused because im hearing two completely opposite opinions. i do have reason to doubt PR though because there's NO way to write a 4 sample answers as long as their's in 25 minutes each, but I'm not really sure. somebody plz help</p>
<p>PR is wrrooooonng (apparently).</p>
<p>Listen to your teacher. Answer the questions, use good examples, and label A, B, C, etc.</p>
<p>No, answer in paragraph or essay form. You may do it the way that you're teacher advises but you might not get the total amount of points possible. The AP Exam wants to see how you can put all of the information into an essay. Princeton Review is definitely helpful in this regard.</p>
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<p>i just got two completely different answers. i want to listen to my teacher, but she's a an idiot and a goofball. at the same time, the government exam doesn't seem to be the kind of exam in which they want you to demonstrate your writing ability. ***</p>
<p>maybe you should follow your teacher cause teacher knows best</p>
<p>coming from a past APGOV test taker ;)</p>
<p>I'm confused. So theres one question, and theres like 4 parts (a, b , c, d) to the question?</p>
<p>My teacher told us to do the A B C thing. And NEVER EVER write one big block of text.</p>
<p>My teacher just said to attack the question without writing an essay because that's how they grade it on the AP - whether you have the information or not.</p>
<p>There are 4 questions...You answer each one separately.</p>
<p>On each of the questions you can either write an aessay or A, B, C, d and on and on, they only really care if you provide everything they ask for on the question.</p>
<p>yeah, the answer sheets for past test on college board only apportion points for facts, there's nothing about writing style. However, my gov teacher said we can write it all as one essay, or even as an outline of an essay to get the points. I'm going to break it up according to the letters and answer questions.</p>
<p>So on the multiple part frq, do you need a intro sentence and conclusion sentence, or could your answer reasonably be just a few sentences long.</p>
<p>on the other questions, when there is only one, are you supposed to write a paragraph or an essay w/ an intro and conclusion</p>
<p>Answer each one separately, don't write in one big long jumbled mess.</p>
<p>Ahh!! This is so confusing!</p>
<p>I'm still getting conflicting viewpoints. My teacher tells us to write it in essay format, but I'd much rather just answer the question point by point if it gets me the same marks.</p>
<p>Does anybody have any confirmed answer?!?!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I don't have a confirmed answer but my gov teacher told us to write a paragraph for each part. One paragraph for A and one for B and so on. He said it was ok if it was only like one sentence long too. The readers want to score the essays quickly so look for specific information so I think they'd rather know right where to look. </p>
<p>My 2 cents. =]</p>
<p>wow, i am so glad that i came accross this site a couple months ago. My teacher never told us shnitzzle about the ap test. So let me get this straight, there is the multiple choice, and free response.
The free response has one main question and 4 smaller questions labelled a,b,c,d for us to answer. Right?? And, we need an into sentence, concluding sentence, and have it outlined like an essay but labelled A,b,c,d.</p>
<p>so like this:</p>
<p>Intro paragraph:
A
B
C
D
Concluding paragraph.</p>
<p>i am confuzzled, are there 4 separate questions that we need to answer abcd for. Like question one: what is commerce clause, a: list significances,b: do a dance, c: sing, d: drink water. Then question two: How did the constitution develop? a. what influenced it, b/ significance of articles of confed, c.d. etc...</p>
<p>No DONT do an intro and concluding paragraph. Dive right into your essay. The other 2 paragraphs take wayy too much time.</p>
<p>My teacher emailed another teacher who was a reader, and she found out that it doesn't really matter if you answer the question directly (non-essay form) or in essay form.</p>
<p>However, if you look at the examples of excellent essays on apcentral.com, you'll see that they were all in essay form.</p>
<p>If you want to be safe, write your answers as essays. If you happen to run out of time, then quickly put bullets down to answer the question.</p>
<p>i am freaking out now, my teacher hasnt said **** about the ap and i dont know the format, can someone quickly go through the whole format, how much time should be spent, and how to do them? I am completely clueless.
so far this is what i know.
mc questions [dont know how many or how long]
free response-8 [100 minutes]
5 vocab questions ? 30 min total
1 big essay[30 min]
2 other random questions [30 min total]</p>
<p>i have no clue.. help!! SOS!!!!!!</p>
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free response-8 [100 minutes]
5 vocab questions ? 30 min total
1 big essay[30 min]
2 other random questions [30 min total]
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<p>No, no, no. The FR section is 100 minutes long, but there are only 4 questions to answer...one of them usually includes a chart or other visual.</p>
<p>Each question is divided into parts and you have to answer each part. Like one part may ask you to describe something and the next part may ask you to then give examples and explain the same thing.</p>
<p>Hope this helps. :D</p>
<p>sorry i had a freak out moment, lol </p>
<p>thank you very much, now i can study in peace.</p>