<p>Anyone taking it? I’m a bit nervous but I took the IB English HL test and I think Idid well, so it’s all good.</p>
<p>so to the people taking it how did it go? are we allowed to discuss the content? i think i did good although i rushed through and left early but i wrote about 3 and a quarter pages.</p>
<p>i messed up on mine pretty badly…i misqouted a title of a play and i misspelled a word…damn</p>
<p>I think I did well, I discussed both “Office Space” and “The Stranger”. Ha!</p>
<p>haha. i was more conservative with my examples…a brave new world, renaissance artists, etc. </p>
<p>cachild3: those sound like minor errors…they aren’t that strict are they?</p>
<p>Did everyone get the same test?</p>
<p>my test was about how industrial workers felt in 1955…i discussed a stupid quote from the passage itself and how doctors feel today. i guess that means it was a crappy essay.</p>
<p>I did alright. I wrote about 3 and a half pages. After taking the AP LIT exam, this was a cakewalk…though I think I went off discussing Factory workers and the first world war a little too much…</p>
<p>I got the same test… I only wrote a page and a half. Does quantity matter?</p>
<p>well i said the title of a play was “Death of a SAILORSMEN”…haha…and i misspelled analyzes (analizes, damn that y) but i think i wrote a pretty strong essay just had a few grammar and memory lapses, hopefully they are forgiving</p>
<p>I doubt quantity matters.</p>
<p>Well, I was pretty confident until I read about you guys quoting friggin plays and whatnot. I didnt have any examples outside of the actual passage, it was basically a straight up analysis. But overall I think I did well, I wrote assiduously for about 45 minutes and left…</p>
<p>reading the example essays on the uc site, seems like quantity doesn’t matter. there were some short 5-paragraph essays that got perfect scores. their mainly looking at quality of literary examples, personal experiences, and ability to grasp the message that the author of the passage is trying to express. i bet you don’t even need a 5-paragraph essay…you could get away with an intro, two examples, conclusion if you wrote with flair and showed advanced comprehension of the passage.</p>
<p>“death of a sailorsmen” haha that’s hilarious… how could you confuse that with the actual title.</p>
<p>i know…i didnt even read any plays or books this year for english so the only things i could go on was what i learned last year and i hardly even remembered anything, i just thought “willy loman wanted the death of a sailor…” and got my title that way…haha</p>