<p>I was wondering about “setting in general” as well, because it said something like “discuss how the setting relates to the meaning of the book” or something. And though the examples specified country, there was one part that didn’t even say country. But I think that’s too general for CB.</p>
<p>“The 3rd question assesses literary knowledge AND writing ability. One w/o the other should be a 0.”
Luckily, Bongo, you’re not an AP grader. And thank you, hellokitty11, for sounding just as annoyed with Bongo as I feel.</p>
<p>like I said, I don’t care either way and when I first read it, I thought of alot of great novels about nations which would fit BUT I was forced to use a novel I read a year ago to answer the question when I had fresher one’s available about nations. I still wrote a darn good essay (good memory I guess), but it seems unfair to me how others had to struggle to answer a difficult question while others took it both ways. That’s why I’m a little angry…should a question be widely interperted or should we actually answer the question?</p>
<p>Bongo, maybe you don’t understand what the word misinterpreted actually means? It doesn’t mean ‘deliberately write about a book you want to write about to answer the prompt.’ It means ‘took the prompt to mean something that it didn’t.’ Is this not getting through to you? Maybe someone who thought it meant nation struggled with the prompt, too. And I don’t believe you don’t care either way or else you wouldn’t have continued this as far as you have.</p>
<p>And, Bongo, I would like to point out that the prompt was not literature. It was a prompt. I interpreted the Evening Hawk just wonderfully. Going along your line of thought – is this AP Lit or AP Prompts? </p>
<p>And it would damage the integrity of the test if College Board didn’t stone all those who misinterpreted the question? I think College Board has proven that they’re quite capable of screw-ups due to the errors that have surfaced recently. </p>
<p>“I don’t care if they give you full credit I just want some extra credit for staying on topic…that’s all I’m pushing for!”
And I want to bang my head against a wall! I just can’t believe you think misinterpretation was intentional. AP Lit is not a zero sum paradigm. You will not be hurt for others misreading the question. Your score will be what you deserve.</p>
<p>And you interpret the AP grading rules to be a 0, as I assume? </p>
<p>With the level of people that messed up (and CC is not even an accurate measure), I firmly believe that they’ll take both interpretations because it was their amiguity that was misleading.</p>
<p>And as I’ve stated before on the board - I dunno if it was in this thread, though - I wrote about a story applicable to both interpretations. I’m safe.</p>
<p>This is getting to be such a circular argument.</p>
<p>Wowwwww…Everyone is so damn angry.
Fact: They meant countryside, but it was too ambiguous-CB’s fault.
Fact: As a result, a lot of people wrote on a country, ie, nation.
Question: Does this mean CB will waive their usual strict stance and grade the nation essays as “correct” interpretations, or not? No one knows right now.
So everyone-calm down.
No one here is stupid, or “less” of an AP student than anyone else. A good or even great essay can be written on “nation” or “countryside” as a topic.
This has already been talked about to death on the main thread. So why don’t ya all join us over there, quit this topic, and stop the animosity? Everyone is so d*mn defensive.</p>
<p>I am utterly amazed, bongo. You go from being passionately aggressive over how your score will be at stake because others purposely strayed from the question to giggling about how you don’t care either way and claiming the “devils advocate” card so people stop attacking you for being ridiculous. I am simply baffled.</p>
<p>823freckles, I believe this thread was made to specifically discuss this issue of the examination, since it seems to be a big issue, leaving the other issues to the other thread. Logical, in my opinion…</p>
<p>CBA321, that’s one interpertation of my reaction</p>
<p>But my interpertation is different, I interpert that I was playing devil’s advocate the whole time</p>
<p>Or is my interpertation wrong? Was my question wrong or poorly phrased? Should one interpertation be valued over another? Is my interpertation as good as yours or vice-versa?</p>
<p>Shoudl we now agrue about what interpertation is? You now have 40 minutes to write an essay…hopefully, your interpertation is correct :)</p>
<p>Except this issue was already discussed at length on the big thread. But clearly you can’t just get over the fact that what you wrote was kinda, uhh, wrong.</p>
<p>Bongo, I’m really enjoying you. Keep it up, dude(tte).</p>
<p>Bad, bad memories of little boys on the playground throwing dirt at the little girls and then chasing them with worms or bugs in jars in the name of Fun.</p>