| My teacher went to an AP Lang teachers conference, and has told us some very helpful things.
Spend 2/3 time w/passage, 1/3 w/questions
There are patterns to wrong answers!!
-"out there" options (most ?s with have one)
-Right word/wrong concept- when the right words are yoked to the wrong concept
-Wrong word/right concept
-Pretentius sounding answers (rarely correct, look for crazy lit terms... syllogism is almost always wrong... but make sure you know what it is just in case!)
-Authority effect ("Well this sounds like something a teacher would say...")
At least one, maybe two passages will be archaic prose (before 20th C)
At least one by a woman
At least one by ethnic minority
At least one by "dead white male"
Usually one about art of writing
These may be combined, such as a dead white male writing archaic prose about the art of writing |