who took the eng lang ap????

<p>Anyone who took the eng lang ap before...what did you think of hte mc section??? I get alot wrong in the review book...other people have told me the test is easier. Is it true?</p>

<p>what review book are you using?</p>

<p>im using barrons</p>

<p>i did barrons as well and after the first passage about ethics and whatnot, i checked my answers. i had 4 out of the 13 wrong.</p>

<p>I used nothing and got a 5. I thought the MC was easy. Idk.</p>

<p>barrons tests are usually much more difficult than the real deal. at least this was the case with the math 2c review books and so on.</p>

<p>I skipped about two passages and still managed a 3. I'd rather omit than guess like crazy</p>

<p>anyone else?</p>

<p>im averaging like around 2/3 right per passage in the barrons...</p>

<p>what does it take to get a 5?</p>

<p>Barrons is known for being 2x as hard as other books. I got 30 out of 95 for us history Barrons but then switchd to the better REA book and I started getting 50 out of 95 (which still sucks)...and now after reading the whole book once I got a 58 outa 95 (sucks even more since I read ALOT) but that equals like a 650. Id reccomend going out and getting a different AP book.</p>

<p>I've been using Barron's (whenever I have time) and I like its explanations. I've taken one actual AP English Language released multiple choice (I'm not sure what year it was) and it was surprisingly easy. If you want to get a different book, I've heard good things about Cliffs, but I don't know if there's anything other than that. Personally, I'm just going to go through Barron's as much as I can, but it definitely is more difficult (sometimes much more difficult) than most of what we'll encounter on Monday.</p>

<p>I have only taken the AP Lit. I think its similar to the Language though. I really wouldn't stress out about it, spend your time studying for other APs where its easier to improve your score in a short amount of time (US hist, bio, chem, phys, math etc.). With this amount of time left there isn't much you can do, maybe write a few practice essays so you get the hang of writing under pressure. For the MC never go in order, look for the questions that will help you through the exam itself. I went for theme, or author's attitude questions first, look at the options, and keep them in mind as you read the other questions. They are all related, its almost as if you can find a path and just follow it through. Also the test makers are kinda obviousy. Often key words that were in the passage are in the answers, so if something looks familiar there is a good chance it's right.</p>

<p>if you had about two more hours of studying available (after writing a practice essay and taking a full-length practice test - i got 29 right), what would you focus on. i made about 100 flashcards of terminology and i know about 75% of them. by the way, do they ask about anophorism and apostrophe and asynchrooosomething? am i wasting my time studying these words? thanks for the help</p>

<p>i think they just use some of the main ones in MC (parallelism, anthithesis, stuff like that), at least thats what I have encountered. You def need to know a couple for the essay section. </p>

<p>I truly hope that the real test would be easier..the seniors (ppl who took it last year) said it was easy, so I'm banking on that. I'm fine with the essays..I actually enjoy writing argumentative essays. It's the MC that's horrible.</p>

<p>I got by on the MC, my essays weren't that good. Last year before the exam I took a sample test and got a 44 out of 55 questions on the MC, and then I looked at a chart that equated my score with what I would need on the essays to get a 5. I think I needed a total score of 15 on the 3 essays, and I figured I could do that. You don't need to know alll the literary terms, because its MC you usually know at least 3 out of the 5 terms they list, so theres more than a 50% chance that the answer is something you know. Or if not you are left to guess between 2 choices. I still don't know what apigrams, assonance, heroic couplets, or ballad meter is, but I got by fine. I would just review books, because I only knew three well (the 3 my class had read in the past 2 months) and it was kinda hard for the open question, but maybe the language test doesn't have that.</p>

<p>where do you get the answers for the old lang and comp tests?</p>

<p>My teacher gave a sample multiple choice to the whole class and an answer sheet. I'm pretty sure they were from an actual literature exam, I have never taken the langauge exam, but there are probably ones available on the collegeboard website.</p>

<p>My teacher gave us a released AP Exam from 2001 and an answer key ... if you want some example questions, you'd have to go to collegeboard.com and register as an educator ... my mom is a teacher, so she was able to, and so I have some, but they're passage based, so it's hard for me to help you on that. sorry</p>

<p>I also did the practice 2001 AP Exam, got 44 out of 55 on the MC, and for the essays I got a 8, 7, and 9 . . . . That equated to something that was right in the middle of the range for a 5.</p>

<p>I got 51 mc right, and 1 6, but we didn't take the other 2 essays ... but as long as I'd gotten 5s (which I could probably easily do), I would have barely gotten my 5</p>

<p>Where did you guys get these tests? collegeboard only has sample questions</p>