Post AP Exam - Never Again!

I'm going to preface this post by saying that I typed out the draft for this assignment and never posted it until now so there's like a 110% chance that I'm not going to get credit for this but that's fine (not really but what can you do??).

 This exam made me wanna cry. And that's not an exaggeration. By the time I got to the fifth question I felt like bawling (I didn't though because I was in a room of over a hundred people). While I felt well prepared because of all of the practice we did in class, I still felt anxious. The exam was harder than I thought it would be. I found the passages boring, especially the 19th century one, and hard to understand.

I'm not sure if I had any successes. To be honest, the only thing I think I did successfully was fill in the bubbles on my Scantron. I kept second guessing my answers on the multiple choice. While I was writing my essays, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was making copious spelling and grammar errors. Also, I found the wording of the prompts to be tricky, but I'm sure that was intentional on the test makers' part. I finished the exam feeling extremely unsure of my answers and my writing. I wouldn't take this test again if someone paid me. My feelings can be summed up with a quote from Drake: "You got me down, you got me stressed out."

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  1. UnknownMay 18, 2017 at 2:08 PM

    The first passage was really hard, I agree. I had to spend a good 5 minutes thinking about what the prompt for the second essay was asking us to do. I think they should have chose a different passage altogether because there weren't really many devices in the speech (at least I couldn't find that many). And by the end, I ran out of time so the third essay turned out really bad. Do you think writing essays other than the synthesis essay in class would have helped improve your performance of the exam?

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  2. UnknownMay 18, 2017 at 8:23 PM

    I agree with when you said the passages were boring and I also found the 19th century passage to be difficult to understand. I had to reread it to fully grasp the message. I also found myself second-guessing my answers. I felt that the rhetorical analysis essay was different from what we saw in class because we were trying to show how Luce used that intro to prepare her audience, so that sort of prompt shifted the way I approached the essay. Also, I 100% agree that I would not take the test again no matter how much money I'm given. Dis you skip the 19th century passage and then come back to it, and if so, do you think that helped you save time in the multiple choice section?

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