Free-Response Questions Download free-response questions from past exams along with scoring guidelines, sample responses from exam takers, and scoring distributions. Be sure to review the Chief Reader Report (2019 versions available later this fall). In this invaluable resource, the chief reader of the AP Exam compiles feedback from members of the AP Reading leadership to describe how students.
All AP Lang students (who registered) are still taking the AP exam. The exam is now simplified to writing one rhetorical analysis essay within a 45 min. time frame. With this in mind, all assignments moving forward will be directly connected to effectively writing a rhetorical analysis. We will heavily rely on AP central for lessons and activities.
This shows you how the AP readers will calculate your overall score and turn it into the 1-5 scale. If you want to look at a handful of prompts (synthesis, analysis, argument) as well as student examples (high, medium, low), this is THE place!!! If you want to play around with hypothetical scores, go here. It might give you confidence going.
AP English Language and Composition Conceptual Framework Effective Fall 2019. This conceptual framework organizes course content according to the big ideas, which enables teachers to trace a particular big idea and its related enduring understanding, its course skills, and all the essential knowledge statements associated with those skills.
The AP Argumentative Essay, also called the ADQ (short for Agree, Disagree, Qualify) is typically the last of the three free-response prompts you will encounter on the AP exam. In some ways (e.g., task familiarity), it is the easiest of the three; in other ways (e.g., providing your own data), it is the hardest.