Sunday, August 17, 2014

1987 AP Exam (notes)

For many of the questions I was torn between two answers and I ended choosing the incorrect one.  Also, for many answers I have would have the correct one in mind but find it too simple for the question and choose against it. This would also happen vice versa, where I thought the answer was something very simple when it was actually very intricate. The last two poems were written in a very different way which I found very difficult to comprehend, so I took longer than I had hoped to answer the questions. This started with the second poem, so when reading and answering the questions for the third poem I was rushing slightly because I wanted to complete the exam in the recommended allotted time. The time should not have been a problem, though, because there were about fourteen or fifteen less questions than there will be on the actual exam. 

These were a few questions that stood out to me:

#3. There were multiple questions similar to this one in the way that they were basically literary devices/terms that I should know in order for this question to be easy.
#7. Sometimes it is difficult for me to relate specific ideas together because I am not looking at the question and answer critically.
#54. The choices and questions contained some vocabulary that I am completely unfamiliar with; this is something that I hope to improve upon this year.

I got 21 out of the 47 correct.

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