Critical note on compliance: If you are one of the 13 students who have yet to submit your Section I scores, do that immediately after reading this sentence.
Toward the End, “The Long Walk”
The AP exam, which packs three essays and 55 multiple-choice questions into about 200 minutes, is closer to a sprint than a marathon; the exam prep, however, is all long-distance running. You can’t cram for this AP. We go slowly and steadily.
Which brings us to the two Section I workshop day scheduled on our calendar. You should use the first one to generate questions and try to solve problems yourselves. Then you can use the time between the first and second workshop to seek my help here, interstitially, through the comment section of this post.
You will have individual needs, and we’ll address those through individual feedback and some test-specific triage. Most concerns, however, are going to overlap with the needs of the group. You’ll see below that particular questions and passages pose more problems. You’ll either be able to offer the explanations we need, be able to prompt the explanations we need, or be able to help by transcribing and posting questions here, on this post.
Note that it will matter down the road which of you got most of the answers correct on this practice test. Down this particular road, you’ll be asked to provide general advice and strategies to your peers. Right now, it’s about each passage and, more specifically, each question. We need to solidify your understanding of what each passage says, how each question works, how each set of answers can be filtered, and ultimately how to arrive at the correct answer.
Let’s start with what you can with the following data, too. You have the right answers, and you’ve had time to sit with the test; now you’ll see a spreadsheet of student performances. The order is randomized.
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Further Forms Data
That spreadsheet will take focus to unpack. That job may be helped by the data created by Google Forms — data you can access simply by clicking on the right link after submitting your own performance. I prefer the Forms data, so I’ve copied and pasted the statistics for each passage below.
Use this and the spreadsheet PDF to help you determine what to do next. Start with each other, and then send folks to ask specific questions in the comment section below.
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