<p>2017hopeful, I talked about the inequality of women and respective gender roles as oppressed and oppressors and how men wielding the role of oppressors blinds them from anything beyond the physical and immediate.</p>
<p>To the person who used Camus’s Stranger, I really really wanted to do that. I started writing it, but then realized it wasn’t a bildungsroman (technically), so i played it safe with Siddhartha</p>
<p>Ok since the major consensus is that the mc was a breeze, I’m expecting the cutoff for a 4 and 5 to be quite high this year. Mark my words…lol</p>
<p>So they have tests with different FRQs and passages for AP Lit? Because I didn’t get anything about a horse, and my FRQ involved siblings (which was difficult for me at first) instead of whatever is being discussed here. Would’ve loved to have a coming of age prompt instead…</p>
<p>They do have tests that are different that a few people get every year. It has to do with standardizing the scores, and they need more tests to compare against the international exams. Don’t worry, it happens to a lot of people. Last year, my AP Psych test was completely different from another high school’s in my area</p>
<p>What was the name of the poem that began, “And like the waves to the pebbled shore…”</p>
<p>Were we supposed to title our essays?</p>
<p>@dirkslam</p>
<p>It’s what people ON COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL say…These kids are nuts, of course most of them thought it was easy.
Every ‘normal’ kid I talked to thought it was pretty hard.</p>
<p>Re: comment regarding Wuthering Heights not being a good choice.</p>
<p>It functions well actually, there are literally six different children you could have tracked. It isn’t primarily a bildungsroman but surely CollegeBoard will recognize use the relative narrowness of this year’s prompt. As it always is in English, if you can support it with evidence that justifies your interpretation, you’re golden.</p>
<p>Glad im not the only one who thought the “pony with hidden intentions” answer choice was hilarious. Me and my friend were in different test rooms and as soon as we got on break we both started cracking up over that question :)</p>
<p>Thought it went pretty well! Hoping for a 5.</p>
<p>Is Harry Potter a book of literary merit?</p>
<p>^no…?</p>
<p>it was a lot easier than I thought it would be 
MC was good, but I bombed the last essay. probably passed the other 2 though. I thought I might fail going in, but I’m pretty sure now that I passed at the very least. possibly a 4.</p>
<p>@The84thline – definitely not. The most a book like Harry Potter (or another YA fiction) can score is a 5/9.</p>
<p>Did anyone write about The Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man for the open ended essay? I was going to use it to talk about Stephen’s kunstlerroman, but I eventually decided that I wasn’t all that comfortable with the novel itself. I ended up going with Catcher In the Rye.</p>
<p>I asked if Potter was of merit because someone said they wrote about it and they definitely wrote a 9. Someone’s gonna cry come July…</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t think Harry Potter counts as a work of literary merit.</p>
<p>When we get our scores in July, do we just see our overall score or do they show us the breakdown of what we got on the MC and each essay?</p>
<p>Just the score; they don’t show us s***!</p>
<p>Which is a shame, I would love to see my essay scores!</p>