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juniperx

{ AP LIT & COMP TEST COMPLETED }

May 07, 2001 17:18

WooOOoo. I completed my first AP exam of the year. Not too shabby. . I'm not very confident on the multple choice though. The 1st two essays (on characterization and poetry) were pretty snazzy but the open ended question about insanity in literature seems shaky. i used 1984 and Winston's supposed insanity in his world for knowing 2+2=4 and how ( Read more... )

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clarice May 7 2001, 17:57:10 UTC

Eh?! I hated that second essay prompt! Why do they pick prose pieces without any devices of literature (well, worth commenting on, at any rate, as it's impossible to have a passage without syntax) and then ask you to write about them? Personally, I got really into the first one, and the open was decent, if not a little restricting.

~~ kitty, who feels the need to leave unsolicited comments in stranger's livejournals

hum uh nuh juniperx May 8 2001, 19:56:09 UTC

hehe. . . i know what you mean about the open ended essay question, it wasn't that bad, it could've been a lot worse =P. there were literary devices in the 2nd prose! ;). wait. . uh. . that was the novel excerpt correct? there was imagery, diction, dialogue, mmm..wait can't remember now. =) oh well =P. no es importa ;). are u taking the language and comp. one tomorrow?

Re: hum uh nuh clarice May 8 2001, 20:32:57 UTC

Hmm... well... The excerpt wasn't that BAD, it just wasn't such a great selection for an essay. The whole point of the AP prompts is to attempt to elicit our best writing, and I certainly don't think that second one elicited anyone's best writing. There wasn't much to pick from in it... Diction, syntax, detail, pov, but none were particularly strong. Oh well, it's all over now and it actually doesn't matter that much what I get anyway (but it seemed easy, so I probably passed... not to mention we've been drilling since October, so we were definitely prepared)

I took the Spanish one, too, and it was awful. My allergies were acting up and I couldn't concentrate and it was reaaaaally hot. Well, that, and we were hideous under-prepared (our AP Spanish class is... well... less than stellar). I think it's a toss-up as to whether I (or any of my classmates) passed. (Pues, no lo importa muchisimo,

Re: hum uh nuh juniperx May 13 2001, 19:32:54 UTC

you're right about the lack of a strong literary device. i took the language and comp. on wednesday, the multiple choice was so much easier than the lit and comp. but the essays on it were harder. trade off i suppose.

sorry your ap spanish test was crappy =P. i know what u mean about the allergies, on monday i felt so crappy in morning. the longer u live in washington the worst they get =P =) hehe. luckily i didn't have to take that exam because last year i took a college in the high school course that gave me 5 UW credits =D!
no puedo pensar en espanol en este momento, pero quiero decir algo..aargh forget it..later ;).

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Oh, I got one more question... clarice May 8 2001, 20:38:06 UTC

...How in the world did you write 3 four-page essays in the alloted time? I'm impressed... Mine are generally about a page (front and back) ... do you write intros or conclusions or something? o.O;;

PS - It's probably best that you didn't use Hamlet -- they're going to get about 100 million Hamlet essays, and you know how teachers get when they have to read the same paper over and over and over and over again... I just hope my Hamlet essay is good enough to overcome the encumberance =/ ...I shoulda written about Kurtz instead.