Originally, I was told I rocked the socks of this preliminary AP test. I recieved a cool pencil and candy as a reward for my remarkable scores. But alas, I did not do so well. Mistakes were made on the grading, and I had many more incorrect. Such is life.
The questions I tended to get wrong were ones I narrowed down to two possible answers, but the questions themselves seemed to vary considerably. The first recognizable pattern emerges in the passage about Maggie. I had a bit of trouble understanding the text in general. Questions dealing with an understanding of the meaning of the text were the areas that I struggled with. For instance, question 12 asks what the narrator meant in lines 1-4. Looking at all the mentions of important literature and authors, I figured that the emphasis was on the importance of literature. However, the correct answer was that it was an introduction of change. I need to learn to read deeper, “between the lines”. For these reasons, the last passage was a train wreck. I could not figure out the meaning of the text at all. I likely could have figured out what this hurt old fellow was trying to say with more time, but at that point in the test, I had to hurry. So the core problem was time, and knowing how much time to spend on each question.
Nevertheless, I'm keeping the cool pencil.
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