Well, I don’t know about the class at your school, but the exam is like lang: one hour of MCQs, two hours for three essays. A good Lit class should cover a lot of poems and assign many, many essays for practice, but there are a lot of teachers out there who aren’t super stoked about teaching poetry and an even larger number of teachers who are loath to grade big stacks of essays (and return them in time to help kids on their next ones). @thecolourist