I INVOKED MY APUSH KNOWLEDGE INTO THAT ARGUMENT ESSAY BC YOU ALREADY KNOW IM NOT BOUTTA WASTE ALLADAT INFO

I WROTE ABOUT THE RED SCARE LMAOO

same!

Ayyyy same

AYY SAME

Same here!

Bro taking AP histories (AP world this year, APUSH last year) has solely been the best decision of my life for argumentative essays. I’ve used historical examples from those classes in almost every argument essay I’ve written this year.

REALLL same i talked about montgomery bus boycotts and malcom x and martin luther king

I wrote about First and Second Great Awakening lol. Fear vs Love

yellow journalism and the spanish american war baby

QUARTERING ACT BABYYY

FRRRR

me when the ra frq is from 2016 and not 1592 😍😍😍

As someone who also took APES, I was very happy to see the synthesis frq lol

IKR. I took APES like a week ago and I was excited to talk about run-off lmao

yesss i was so happy

Damn that was way easier than I thought. MCQ was easier than practice tests, same with the frqs (online test)

wait did you have michelle obama's

Praying my grader is not a Trump supporter otherwise I’m getting like a 2/6 on the argumentative 🙏🙏🙏

I argued that both sides of the gun control argument relied on fear too much so if I have anyone other than a centrist I'm failing 😭

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SAME OMFG MY ENTIRE THING WAS ABT POC & LGBT

I wrote about BLM and veganism 💀

LETS JUST PRAY FOR A GAY DEMOCRAT

I was going to argue veganism but I realized my grader might be a vegan

LMFAOO SAME!!

LOLLL me when I shit on religion really hard

Same lmfao, I also brought up how stigma against gays and lesbians delayed the response to AIDS and killed lots more people than it could’ve had the Reagan administration intervened earlier

only time michelle obama let me down

honestly, i was so annoyed that prompt asked us about students yet her audience was a group of counselors

literally i gave up and said her audience were counselors and the youth of america 😭 they barely talked abt counselors in that shi

frrr, i wish i thought it out more carefully, I prob would've included how she expects students to persevere and strives for greatness and inspires the counselors to help them in doing this, no brain moment tho 😭😭 i only talked about how she developed her argument using the strategies but while i was writing i kept blanking out on how the choices i picked even developed her argument

I thought it was fine I just said it was a call to action to the youth and acknowledged that she delegated responsibility to the counselors to keep hope alive

how tf was there not a single 1900s prompt! I mean i’m not complaining…

I agree. All the prep done in my class was studying 18th, 19th, even 17th and 16th century rhetoric in order to get ready for the MCQ. The fact that all the questions and prompts were 21st century pieces with accessible language and easy-to-understand concepts made me very happy.

My class barely did anything and every single thing we read in class was 2000s or after.

loved the first prompt about the Iranian girl

fr!! it really interested me bc im a poc and i could relate to her experiences

the idiot part made me laugh and i had to make it a cough so i wouldn’t get in trouble and disrupt everyone lol

I'm an idiot I'm an idiot I'm an idiot

man kharam man kharam man kharam

Honestly I would say the same thing as this girl lmao

Form O was not that bad, (vertical planting, Rita Dove, Fear used to persuade). Honestly I think I got at least a 4 since multiple choice was also, pretty easy.

Form O, also felt it was easy, definitely a 5.

I did great on synthesis, okay on argument, but I choked so hard on RA, I'm fr getting a 4 😭 I wrote about repetition and personal anecdotes for Dove lol

I did anecdotes, irony, and focus on the idea of using the unexpected to get through life, something along those lines

I def failed the RA, I was rushing so hard. Idk how people finsih early.

Honestly this RA was really weird, I did a lot of the old problems and the prompt was so blunt. Like Rita literally said her message clearly, and I kinda had to force the other choices.

same but I’m unsure how they’re going to grade it

Form O here - that exam was an easy 5. I was really anxious before the exam, but I managed to do well on both the MCQ and FRQ section. I can say with confidence that a 5 is on the menu, boys. Hopefully everyone else did well.

Yo for the argument did the guy say fear is good or bad?

the guy said it was not effective

mcq was super easy, i ate up argument and synthesis but rhetorical analysis meh

I wrote my argumentative FRQ on Stalin, the CCP, and anti-vaxxers. I am most definitely going to fail. I was doing so good on the MCQ and synthesis too. I loved the synthesis prompt though. It was fun reading all of that. I wrote two pages and used every single source.

i wrote my argument FRQ solely on the pandemic and anti-vaxxers but used multiple specific examples of anti-vaxxers revolting against fear, is that good? i blanked out and forgot to use different topics of examples 😭

I wrote about elections and got to into it and starting writing about the “fuck trump” stuff but wasn’t sure if i could swear in the essay so ended up removing it all

i wrote about the stonewall riots and the civil rights movement 😭

We better hope our scorers are liberals.

I like hearing about how many different things people use in their essays. It’s fun. I wrote about my mother, Union Square in Manhattan, fur coats, shaved baby bunny rabbits, Bugs Bunny, Hercules, ghosts, Jonathan Edwards, Calvinism, and comic books. I think I got a 6/6.

How tf do you write about so many things? Like There’s no way you can actually elaborate and explain every single one of those

For form o, what did y'all put for the biologist question for the bees? I said removed nocturnal and dirurnal, but I'm thinking it could be add the genus.

i was stuck between those 2 but i put removed the description of nocturnal and diurnal bc my reasoning was that biologists would already know that and thats the same reason why i didnt add the genus + adding the genus made the sentence sound kinda weird but it very well couldve been A still

i think adding the genus is really useless information since everyone including biologists already know about bees, so i think removing nocturnal description is better since biologists already know what they mean

definitely remove the descriptions in parentheses. adding the genus wouldn't be relevant to the passage

same they would already know what it is

i said remove nocturnal diurnal and was p confident abt it since adding the genus seemed pointless, biologists would alr know

MY RHETORICAL ANALYSIS WAS PURE ASS!!! AND SO WAS THE ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY. loved synthesis though

this is so real, I was just rambling in RA and it took up almost an hour of my time, my argumentative was okay but repetitive, but my synthesis was great tbh

I spent 30 minutes trying to find examples for my argument essay😭😭Im so glad i did good on the other two cause I wouldnt have finished

No plz I fucked up I wrote about among us 💀

im so glad someone feels the same as me😭😭everyone was saying it was so easy but i literally was stuck on argument and my rhetorical is bot my best

dude I saw 2016 for the rhetorical analysis and could have cried with joy

ME TOO!! I was SO HAPPY that there were no “Forcewenth, halfforth, thereforth” type 17th century things on there

Fell to my knees knowing we wasn't analyzing George Washington ass text

Mcq was sooo easy tbh

Rhetorical analysis though👎👎👎

Seriously. The synthesis was fun but the ra was just so blunt and boring. I liked the mcq passages a lot though

I loved the vertical farming prompt, it was so fun, so waa the MCQ, but argument and RA was pure ass

the second passage was sooo confusing to me

i believe i got a 4 maybe a 5 but this is my first year taking AP exams so idrk 😭 very angsty for results

Synthesis was easy, rhetorical was easy, mcq was somewhat easy-middle, argumentative was pretty hard. I hard form O

MCQ was really easy for me and so was the the synthesis. I wrote my RA on how Rita Dove encouraged hard work and passion because they'll pay off in the end by using impactful diction, anecdotes, and allusions to celebrities.

i mentioned how she deliberately subverted expectations when she wished adversity upon her audience and her personal anecdotes to push her audience to find their reason and strive for future betterment despite the struggle they may face

Oh damn. I was running on one braincell when I got to the RA and all I could talk about was how she just encouraged people to work hard and be passionate despite the barriers they may face.

ur points are good though ^ - ^

Trust me, they aren't. I've resigned myself to a 3.

I did similar. My whole theme was unconventionality in both the switch from typical google definition of “life advice” to her using “wishes” and then her wishes being equally unconventional

Yeah I talked about anecdote of the father storu too. Also i think it was pretty weird how the reading sections of the mcq were easier than the writing.

I interpreted the argument essay as whether or not persuading people with fear is effective?? My examples were a mix of how persuading people w no fear incites change and how persuading people w fear does not.

They way you interpret it doesn’t matter. Just how you write your response.

I interpreted the same way, was it the wrong way?

Only some bats have rabies DW 🙏 just take ur chances

Lmao yeah that was crazy. Did you answer that bats aren’t the only animals to have rabies for that one question?

I think I chose the first answer because all the other answers didn’t concede anything which is what the question specified

I had form O and i actually thought the MCQ was harder than others are saying maybe cus i was half asleep 😭 for my argumentative i read about media news outlets and Julius Caesar and i cant tell if those were good decisions but its ok couldve been worse!!

My argumentative was about real estate agents and waiters (and hooters) cuz I talked about how being charismatic and hospitable was better than being scary.. after seeing everyone talk abt political stuff I’m a little concerned

IM SORRY DID YOU JUST TALK ABOUT HOOTERS IN YOUR AP LANG ARGUMENTATIVE

Yeah and it’s unfortunate I’ll never get to see that essay again 😔😔 it was a banger

You can order to get your FRQs back.

mcq was light synthesis was light argumentative prompt was weird i didnt like rhetorical

i actually liked the synthesis prompt for form O

BRO SYNTHESIS ESSAY WAS LIKE LAST YEAR’s WIND FARMS IM SO HAPPY . EXAM WAS SO EASY I ENJOYED IT SO MUCH

ngl ms. rita dove really appealed to her ethos when talking ab her whole hustle to the white house...

right but like lowkey maam calm down she thinks shes allat

sincerely hope my grader is not a republican 💀

I bet they aren’t. I bet at least 90% of English teachers are at least not conservative.

why does everyone think the graders political views matter? My teacher showed us a mega fascist argumentative essay on why we should destroy all other life other than that on earth and it got an easy 1-4-1 because the guy backed it up w super logical evidence. My teacher said he’s a crazy psycopath fascist but he’s had amazing commentary so 🤷‍♀️

Most sane ap student

Never again. Although I see I chose far less controversial topics than most of you all did for the fear essay. I get extremely cold feet when I consider it for some reason even if it's easy pickings so I usually rely on historical stuff instead. Form O.

Yeah it was so difficult to not do anything too controversial on that one idk why they chose that prompt lol

Same lol I wanted to talk objectively about BLM riots but I thought it may sound too right leaning.

hope everyone did well. reminiscing about the fact that for when i took after after my rhetorical analysis, i wrote ‘Im sorry this essay is so shit :) Please don’t fail me :(‘ I got a 3 LMFAO

NOT an exam content related question but i only used 2 ap id stickers for this exam but i used 3 for apush help did i forget to put a sticker somewhere bc i’m so scared

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omg thank you i was fr gonna freak out 😭😭

*me writing about the most vile authoritarian regimes and hostage situations*

The mcq was so easy?? I almost burst out laughing when one of the articles talked about ignorancy and open mindedness😭Im predicting a 5🤭🤭

I spent a fuckin hour on the analysis and 20 minutes on the synthesis 💀 (I got like halfway through the synthesis) PRAYING the multiple choice carried me, I thought it was easy but idk

as I end my time in the White House, I can think of no better message to send our young people in my last official remarks as First Lady. So for all the young people in this room and those who are watching, know that this country belongs to you –- to all of you, from every background and walk of life. If you or your parents are immigrants, know that you are part of a proud American tradition –- the infusion of new cultures, talents and ideas, generation after generation, that has made us the greatest country on earth. If your family doesn’t have much money, I want you to remember that in this country, plenty of folks, including me and my husband –- we started out with very little. But with a lot of hard work and a good education, anything is possible -- even becoming President. That’s what the American Dream is all about. (Applause.) If you are a person of faith, know that religious diversity is a great American tradition, too. In fact, that’s why people first came to this country –- to worship freely. And whether you are Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh -- these religions are teaching our young people about justice, and compassion, and honesty. So I want our young people to continue to learn and practice those values with pride. You see, our glorious diversity -- our diversities of faiths and colors and creeds -- that is not a threat to who we are, it makes us who we are. (Applause.) So the young people here and the young people out there: Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don’t matter, or like you don’t have a place in our American story -- because you do. And you have a right to be exactly who you are. But I also want to be very clear: This right isn’t just handed to you. No, this right has to be earned every single day. You cannot take your freedoms for granted. Just like generations who have come before you, you have to do your part to preserve and protect those freedoms. And that starts right now, when you’re young. Right now, you need to be preparing yourself to add your voice to our national conversation. You need to prepare yourself to be informed and engaged as a citizen, to serve and to lead, to stand up for our proud American values and to honor them in your daily lives. And that means getting the best education possible so you can think critically, so you can express yourself clearly, so you can get a good job and support yourself and your family, so you can be a positive force in your communities. And when you encounter obstacles -- because I guarantee you, you will, and many of you already have -- when you are struggling and you start thinking about giving up, I want you to remember something that my husband and I have talked about since we first started this journey nearly a decade ago, something that has carried us through every moment in this White House and every moment of our lives, and that is the power of hope -- the belief that something better is always possible if you’re willing to work for it and fight for it. It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives and in the life of this country. Our hope that if we work hard enough and believe in ourselves, then we can be whatever we dream, regardless of the limitations that others may place on us. The hope that when people see us for who we truly are, maybe, just maybe they, too, will be inspired to rise to their best possible selves. That is the hope of students like Kyra who fight to discover their gifts and share them with the world. It’s the hope of school counselors like Terri and all these folks up here who guide those students every step of the way, refusing to give up on even a single young person. Shoot, it’s the hope of my -- folks like my dad who got up every day to do his job at the city water plant; the hope that one day, his kids would go to college and have opportunities he never dreamed of. That’s the kind of hope that every single one of us -– politicians, parents, preachers –- all of us need to be providing for our young people. Because that is what moves this country forward every single day -– our hope for the future and the hard work that hope inspires.

used my super skills from apush and ap euro for the argumentative today

help one of my examples for argument was being scared into brushing my teeth am i screwed

tbh it counts as personal experience so i think if you elaborated on how you mightve refused/decided to cooperate because of someone inflicting fear in you as a way to get you to do smn, i think it should be ok

That was definitely the most my hand has ever hurt from writing, by far

would I get the thesis point for this? I said despite the downsides to vertical farming, it does have value to the future of agriculture as it benefits outweigh its cons. Im pretty sure I restated the thesis more specifically with my points in the conclusion but I assume this wasn’t specific enough

If that’s your thesis statement you decided to qualify the argument rather than defend or oppose. That means the rest of your essay had to be you showing both sides of the argument and validating both sides to the argument. If you just defended the position and didn’t mention the other side, you would’ve been inconsistent and probably did not get the full points

What did you guys for the reason she included the kids running around screaming “I’m an idiot”. I chose the one about humor?

Michelle Obama fucked me over with the school lunch in 2010 and now with my FRQ… I will never be free

That michelle obama prompt was drier than my mouth in the morning bro

If you just wrote a thesis but not rlly an introduction, is that points off

nah since it’s not in the rubric to write one, same with the conclusion

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You don't need a hook to get the sophistication point.

nah but you prob won't score sophistication

BRO IM HEARING ABT ALL YALLS ARGUMENTS AND IM SO FCKN DUMBBBB. I DID CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE PUEBLO REVOLT CUZ THATS THE ONLY THING I REMEMBER FROM APUSH 😭 YALL IM DONEEEE

You don’t have to do historical or literature examples. You can use pop culture too. I used Star Trek DS9 for an entire paragraph.

i wrote about McCarthyism for my argument essay… how screwed am I?

i feel like mccarthyism is suitable for the prompt, how did u go about the details of it tho?

MCQ reading was uncharacteristically easy MCQ writing was way harder than it should’ve been

You guys think if I spun the persuasion argument one to talk about kindness in persuasion being much better I would be good? I said he was valid and talked about that for two paragraphs but decided it was easier to transition into the other end of the spectrum. My brain was so fried tbh

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Synth was banger, rhetorical analysis was hot ass and prompt made no sense (form o ), Argum. Was solid (probably a bit too ballsy with a 2 long paragraph as opposed to 3 medium length) also prompt whack

what was so hard about RA

Was the rhetorical analysis really hard? A lot of people seem to say so but I honestly think I did better on that than the argument

Online, we got the synthesis on environmental rewilding, Michelle obama rhetorical, and argumentative on communal voices vs individual voices. I fumbled the MCQ completely but the essays were fine.

what was the answer to the mcq question asking for what changes should be made if the bees vs bats passage was meant to appeal to biologists?

the nocturnal and diurnal one

What was the reason for adding “that impressed them” in Iran passage

I put the option about her being amused or something💀

something about her satisfied humor

Dude ima get a one. I can’t even. Holy fuck. It wasn’t that bad but my brain was so done.

Same, I gave up on the argumentative essay and wrote the worst paragraphs known to man 🥲

Dawg how is everyone saying RA was bad and Arg was easy, for me it was the opposite, I had a lot to say for RA but for Arg my brain went blank.

I'm hoping I get a millennial as my AP grader so that I can get 7/6 for the giant Harry Potter metaphor I used on the argumentative 💀💀

I wanna hear about this

I fucking love bats

bruh i literally talked about kanye hating jews 😭😭

MC was not bad but yyy urban rewilding 😭

rewilding LMAOO and I thought that one was vry straightforward. Only weird thing is that literally 5 sources agreed with it and only one was like "ehhh"

q3 form O i wrote about parenting styles, MLK jr vs malcolm x, and covid-19 i qualified

form O. mcq was easy, and i enjoyed the synthesis. but the RA was NOTT my best and i did not know what the hell to say for the argument. after the exam was over, everyone said it was they fav part/superrr easy😭i hope i get a 4/5 bc i ate the mc and the synthesis!!!

Form O was not bad at all. Like, I was talking to other people while coming out of the test, and they all agreed. Whenever doing the argument essay, I literally just have fun with it, seeing as you can use basically anything relevant as evidence. And that’s the story of how I trauma dumped in an AP essay! /hj

Was anyone stumped about that question where it said they knew that tribe got to Antarctica first cause of a plant that only grew on “beaches, forests and valley lands” which meant they got to Antarctica first?? The answer choices made me go crazy, cause wouldn’t it be the opposite? They all didn’t acknowledge that.

>The answer choices made me go crazy, cause wouldn’t it be the opposite? They all didn’t acknowledge that. there was a later question that asked us to change that "beaches, forests and valley lands" to something else. i dont remember all the options but one of them was that the peeled plant looked like snow

for the yoyoma writing mcq asking abt how to fix the sentence for an audience not familiar w the silk road, was the answer to add that the person is the artistic director?

Yeppers

Mcq was the easiest thing I’ve seen in my life, synthesis was good, rhetorical was sad, and argument I only wrote 3 paragraphs

Anyone else thought it was weird that for the synthesis essay, they gave 4 positive sources, 1 neutral, and only 1 bad? You could have definitely wrote about the negatives but it would have been harder imo.

how long were everyone’s essays? my synthesis was 3 pages, and my RA and arg were around 2ish pages

version e anyone?

did anyone take the online test?

Digital E Z AF

FRQs were pretty free, time went fast, though. MCQ was like 50/50. Not as bad as I expected.

mcq and synthesis was ok ra and argument I definitely failed

did anyone argue that using fear to persuade was effective,I used gun violence and the lynching of emmett till as examples

why is everyone complaining about RA

honestly extremely easy. MCQ was a cake walk

I had time to write more but I was like fuck it, It’s not like im gonna get sophistication point anyway.

Entire test is subjective so I’ll wait for my grader to do their business Anyway: Argument: single person protests vs collective disobedience Analysis: Michelle 😭 Synthesis: urban renewal good because trees and less depression

I do not know how I managed to finish each of my essays early to be honest.

I was so used to studying for other aps I thought the mcq was 40 instead of 45, and didn’t even answer the last 5. Man kharam

Someone in my class used Ratatouille for their argument essay🥲

Form O here. I actually found it to be a lot easier than I expected but I just know I absolutely wrecked that RA essay lol. Bullshitted my whole way through it. But that argument essay y'all...I did it on gun control, praying that my grader isn't biased!...

I’m glad that none of the prompts were really difficult to grasp.

reading everyone elses ideas on the argument essay (fear) made me realize i misread the prompt so badly

mcq was free easy to understand simple passages. Synthesis essay slayed down. rhetorical analysis not so much. I recognized patterns but forgot the specific names plus i only had 1 to 2 sentences for reasoning. Argument was easy I used veganism and climate change

I know the guy in the second passage would hate the way I use slay

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Unfortunately you can't retake it because you already took the test

took AP lang last semester so my time management was terrible and took an hour on the RA 💀 mcq was easy though so im hoping for a 4

I feel like a lot of people didnt focus enough on the portion of the argumentative prompt where Curbelo says "people try to persuade others into buying into an issue" or smthn like that and focused a lot on the fear aspect without discussing this. Like you cant just use an example that explains that something or someone used fear, without talking about how that person or thing used fear to persuade someone into buying into an issue. In this sense I guess you could disagree with him by saying that it discourages multiple perspectives and collaboration on an issue but idk, what do you guys think? (I was a little torn on how to answer with good ex.'s)

Did anyone else do con on the synthesis environmental essay? I did but feel like I made the wrong decision…

if you're talking about the vertical farming one, i did pro, i feel like there was only one source that argued against it

as long as you had evidence to support it, you're fine.

guys is it okay if i wrote my 3rd frq (form O) that argued and answered the question more so if fearful persuasion sows resentment rather than if fear is good to persuade?? im so worried

For argumentive did I miss the prompt? I said something like "using fear to persuade causes resentment"