How hard is AP Lit?

Tonyt88
Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:18:14 +0000

For me it was pretty impossible, but that’s because we had the most ridiculous teacher ever. We only read six books and plays [The Joy Luck Club, Crime and Punishment, Metamorphosis, Hamlet, Song of Solomon, and The Storyteller], and she was very keen on showing us, get this, three different movie versions of Hamlet [Kenneth Branagh, Ethan Hawke, and the really old one filmed on stage] and she based many of the tests on the last chapter of the books [so after a while everyone just read the last chapter [or spark notes] and that was it]. Plus, she filled much of the class conversation with ridiculous tangents about pass stories which she claimed had relevance to the topic at hand. Also, there had been two AP classes, and she had totally favored the 4th peroid class, thus we pretty much hated her. So pretty much it was a horrible experience, though it should be funny to see how we fare on the AP test, though I expect most of the class to get good grades since many of them are very strong in english/lit [seven perfect sat scores in verbal and four in writing in the two AP classes]