AP English Literature - Help?

lilpixytiff
Tue, 09 May 2006 11:12:04 +0000

Wow surprisingly there are a lot of people who said they nailed the first and second prompts and failed the third–for me, it was vice versa! (And pretty much everyone else at my school too…keeping in mind that there are about 300 students taking AP Lit from AHS) Anyway, I had NO idea what the first and second prompts were talking about. I seriously had to pull all my BS skills from everywhere in order to even fit one page of writing. Yeah, even today I still don’t get it, but oh well!

The third one was really easy for me–I don’t know why so many people interpreted it as a geographical political country as opposed to a rural setting. And I don’t really think it’s fair to criticize CB for that because like someone before me said, it’s not anymore vague than the other words on the test. I mean who would think that they would put out a prompt that asks you to write on an actual country? I guess a lot of people but I just used Tess of the D’Urbervilles–I think that book fits the absolute best because the events of the novel are actually driven by the fact that it’s set in a rural area as opposed to an industrialized city.

Plus, don’t freak out about it guys! I’m assuming that most of us are seniors, so we’re going to college next year. Who cares anymore about AP Exams? LOL okay fine that’s just because I’m a lazy bum and I don’t care about school AT ALL anymore.