Assignment 26: Help! I need somebody. Help! (Tyler Gorman)

Overall I felt very prepared for the AP test by the time it came. I think the timed writings and scoring them as a class were very effective, and as were the practice multiple choice tests. I do think it would have been more effective to review the analysis and synthesis essays a bit more in-depth--potentially through an extra timed writing or two--closer to the actual test. As we got closer to the test and read several of the prompts for analysis essays I realized that we hadn't really touched the analysis essay much at all since first semester, and I'd forgotten a lot of the things I was meant to be analyzing.
Something else I found very helpful were the practice multiple choice tests. I saw my score increase from the 10-20 range when we first took it to the 40-50 range when we took it again before the AP test. I think it was very helpful not only going over the answers, but going over why they were the right answers.
I will say something I didn't really find effective was the Socratic seminars. It may have just been that I didn't get it or what it was meant to encourage, but they really just felt like chores that subtracted from the time I could spend preparing for not just the AP Lang test, but all four of my upcoming AP tests. I think if they were modified or possibly even if we simply didn't have as many as we did we would have had more in- and out-of-class time to prepare for AP testing.
I also rather enjoyed the speech assignment first semester. Yes, it was downright terrifying, but it gave me the chance to write about something I'm passionate about for once, and it was a pleasant change from pretty much every writing assignment I've had in the past.
Again, I felt very prepared for the test, and I feel (at the risk of sounding cocky) that I have a really good chance of at least passing, if not scoring in the 4-5 range. Thanks for an awesome year!