On the very day
of the AP English test, May 16th, 2012, I was extremely nervous yet I
couldn’t really do anything to prepare me for it. I find this test extremely
similar to the SAT critical reading sections. Except this time, the passages
are harder to understand, more metaphors and symbolic meaning behind the
message in the text, and longer without any breaks in between the reading. As
for the pacing, I find myself pretty balanced that I didn’t rush through any
passage due to the time constrain. However, there are still questions that I simply
have to guess. Yet those choices are usually between 2 or 3 answer choices, so I
guess it wasn’t that bed. As for the essay section, I find the doubt vs certainty
essay extremely difficult due to my bad pacing for the first 2 essays, the
synthesis and analysis essay. For the synthesis essay, I didn’t really do a
conversional way as to go into 3 examples to support my point. Instead, I wrote
the 3 paragraphs by first giving reasons why UPS is in danger, then the
advantages of UPS and finally the ways to restructure the post office to save
it from extinction. I hope I didn’t use any weird sentence usage and structure.
I tend to write too long of a sentence with lots of subordinate clause that may
be far from its subject. As for the analysis essay, I think I did a good job
that I was able to include lots of facts and detail in the analysis. However,
this essay took me too much time that for the last essay, I couldn’t come out
with good examples to support my claims. Overall, I think I should be able to
do fine on this test (hope so).
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