Saturday, May 13, 2017

Response to the AP exam

     I wouldn't say that the AP exam was much good of an experience for me. I was nervous before the exam, since I always had some timing issues during the practice exams in class. The AP exam was harder than I expected just after the first multiple choice part. The multiple choice section had two 19th century articles, one 20th century article and one modern article. The articles from the 19th century was hard to understand as usual, so I wasn't able to finish all the questions of the multiple choice with about half the questions of the last passage left. There was a couple of questions on footnotes in the multiple choice, which I should have reviewed some more on the footnote part before the exam.
     For the writing part, my thoughts were kind of messed up on the first synthesis essay. I originally had organized thoughts on the essay, but they became a mess as I continued on writing. Similarly, I felt like I messed up on the argumentative essay too. At first, I didn't know what the term "artifice" mean, and I'm still not so sure about it even after reading the whole prompt. I kind of ran short on time in the end of the last passage to write more examples, but I still managed to finish my conclusion. Overall, I think I messed up.