I FINISHED ALL MY AP TESTS!!!
i had ap world last week and today i had ap lang
ap world i was STRESSING over because theres so much content, and our class barely got through half of it. im serious, we were at unit 5 (out of 9) by the time of the test, so a lot of self studying had to be done
but you know how i ammmm, i waited until the last minute like a stupid dumb dumb head. i was looking over notes literally the morning of the test, and honestly i was pretty scared of missing the bus too since we had to take the test at another school (remember this)
and then when we started the test, all that stress kinda faded away and i was so locked in. the mcq was pretty easy and the saqs were SO easy. they were all about the first few units which we did in class so i knew most of the stuff
i was really scared for the dbq and leq since we never practiced those in class and i didnt feel like practicing them at home because im lazy. i also have no sense of time management so writing 2 essays in like an hour and a half was gonna be pretty tricky
the break ended and part 2 started, i see the prompt for the dbq and its actually not terrible. it was from a unit we never went over but its okay because the prompt was easy enough that i didnt really need the review
the leq was slightly worse, mostly because i suck at recalling things i learned and theres no stimulus to guide me. for some reason i chose the one from a unit we never went over, but its whateverrr, i was kinda just writing and not thinking anyways
i actually finished the essays with like 20 minutes left which i was surprised at, especially considering i cant even write a paragraph in one period (44 minutes) for my english class
so im hoping for at least a 4 on ap world
now ap lang was today and when i tell you, today was the most stressful day of my life
so i have to drive to school since i live outside of the district (they dont know that tho shhh), and i wanted to leave extra early to not miss the bus. of course the one time i actually leave early is the one time theres traffic. on the ONLY road to get to my school
we get there 20 minutes later (mind you its a 10 minute drive) and i run to the entrance. usually at this time, theres not a lot of kids waiting in line for the metal detector, but of course TODAYYYY literally everyone was late
and of course everyone decides to cut in front of the line, which is what i shouldve done too
so im waiting in line for like 15 minutes, all while panicking because i might miss the bus, but i figured they'd try to find me since i didnt show up
well i was freaking wrong
i finally get through the metal detector and run to the lobby where everyone shouldve been waiting
luckily but unluckily, another kid who was supposed to take the test was late too, so we missed the bus together. idk what i wouldve done if i was alone
we go to the main office and theyre like "where were you??? the bus left without you" like they tried to look for us
and me being a sensitive little drama queen, my eyes start tearing up because i HAVE to take this test, theres no way im freaking missing it because these lines freaking suck and theres no good system of checking bags
and honestly im glad i started tearing up because they were being kinda mean to us about being late, but then started being nicer. i didnt feel like getting berated right before a big test
so the thing is, the school we had to go to was like a 10 minute walk from ours, so i asked the office ladies if we could just walk there, but they said it was raining so apparently walking was out of the question. yknow what a better solution is?
wait 40 minutes for a new bus
so we ended up being like 30 minutes late to the test, WE STILL GOT THERE THO so all was mostly well
the multiple choice was actually really easy, i finished it all with like 20 minutes left, which was apparently really fast and people were asking me how i did that. the passages werent too abstract and most of the questions were easy enough to understand
and then the break came, and i spent 10 minutes worrying about the next part
3 essays in 2 hours 15 minutes
like i mentioned earlier, im not good at time management, but i figured if i could write 2 essays in an hour 10, i could do this
i start the next section and the prompts are somewhat alright
so i absolutely suck at rhetorical analysis so i read that one first to try and find something to write about, but i couldnt find much so i moved on to synthesis and kept the ra in the back of my mind
i find quite a bit for synthesis so i write the intro for that, and then i move onto argument. it wasnt too bad of a prompt so i wrote the intro for that as well. i went back to ra to try and find more evidence, and i did, but i didnt wanna work on it anymore so i went back to synthesis
i typed in all of my evidence and structured the paragraphs, and wrote the conclusion, i just needed to add commentary and explanations for all 6 quotes, but i didnt wanna do that so i moved on to argument. i wrote one paragraph about my experience and that was probably the most ive written for one paragraph in the entire test
i also wrote the conclusion for argument and figured that was a good place to stop. i HAD to work on the ra because none of that was started yet and i had maybe an hour and 15 minutes left
i wrote the intro and all the evidence i was gonna use and wrote the conclusion, and spent some time thinking of the commentary. i was lowkey making stuff up so i hope my grader doesnt laugh at me. i write a bit of commentary and decide im bored so i go back to the synthesis
i write most of the commentary for that and go back to the argument because i only had like 3 paragraphs and i needed more than that. im not gonna lie i was making stuff up for that too but its okay because i t might be true. i was writing a lot but saying so little at the same time and i think that was a theme for all of my essays
i write another paragraph for argument and go back to ra where i continue my intellectual bullcrapping. i get stuck so i go to the synthesis and finish that. i go back to the ra and finish that as well. the argument gets done too and i have 5 minutes left. i was actually pretty proud of myself for managing to finish all 3 essays but i think that was due to 2 things
1) i didnt know the grader so their opinion of my writing would affect me the same way a teacher would. this means i could write whatever i wanted (within reason) and not be afraid of what the grader thinks. if my teacher was the grader, i wouldve been a lot more careful with what i wrote because i dont want his opinion of me to change
2) there were 3 essays and not 1. i think a reason why i get stuck writing an essay in english class is because theres only 1 thing to write, so i get stuck trying to think of something to write and waste time. with 3 essays, i was able to jump around when i couldnt think of something to write and could circle back to it later. it helped me not get tired of writing the same essay for a long period of time and kept me from clocking out mentally after the first one. i think this works a lot better than writing one essay at a time but thats just my opinion
so yea that was my ap lang test, im hoping for a 4 but idk, looking at how bad my essays were. im hoping they take pity on me
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