lulumobile

i supported the aboliton of the penny...referencing to shorter time, inflation

in my counter argument however i talked abt gas prices and how they need to be exact and taxes...

sound okay to anyone????? or did i blow it? enough to get a 6?

Orual

I bombed synthesis. Really and truly bombed it. Looking back, I should have just taken the easy route since the documents were so obviously one-sided, but I took the other side. I just don't see how a question based on economics, which is a science, can be completely bereft of documents providing empirical evidence. I am not a big fan of just proclaiming my uneducated opinion, especially on topics where you could conceivably examine data and find the most rational solution. I know it's just an AP test, but it's a dumb practice to ignore facts in favor of "oh, x is inconvenient for me" or "oh, we might forget about president y if we take away x."

Yeah, I know. Ideals don't matter on AP tests. It's over now, anyway. I'll just remember to rip College Board in my memoir.

PaPa H

Don't be so sure, if you made sense in your arguments you could be okay. Remeber what this essay tests: Can you create an argument and integrate some sources?

zfox001

I thought the synthesis was really funny!!
I seriously opened up the test and started laughing because I mean come on....how random was that....
And then one of the sources....a picture?!?!?
how the heck is that usefull.
in all it was just really kinda funny

jcll2002

i thought the test was a joke. I didn't study for it at all because i thought i really couldn't. I went into the test really discouraged but came out feeling better about it than any of my other tests which I know the material really well and studied hard for.

Weird.

stephennn

one of my main arguments was outside info. (gas prices)

brieb08

lol i wrote how the second penny in the picture was not a real penny... then crossed it out.

mediocresniper

Are we allowed to be talking about the essay?

I took the synthesis essay down a veeeeeeeeeery interesting approach.

springflower203

cliffnotes recommends outside info, so i'm gonna agree with the majority here.

PaPa H

My info came from the chief reader in an AP conference I attended. He was adamant that you MUST make your voice central in the argument (personal insight). When I went to the next conference, 3 different readers said the same thing. They hammered the snot out of essays that were dependent solely on the sources.

RouterRouter

This was my outside info Thank You Stephen Colbert! (AP Related)

elizlan

It's clear from the random picture of a current penny and an old one that they were scrambling for an image source hahaha I don't know how someone would use that source in their essay.

Apotheosis

I actually used the picture as a source.

I think I used all the sources, even though I was for "getting rid of" blahblahblah.

al_tassadar

so now that the test is over, what are you guys doing in your classes?

technol21

"Film Festival"

We're watching Pride & Prejudice now, but it's relevant since we just finished reading the book.