Taking the diagnostic test brought back painful memories of AP review from last year, reminding me just how excruciatingly close the new school year is and how boring it gets at times. Not a good outlook for going into a new year.
On to the results: I got 35 out of the 50 questions correct, performing slightly better on the prose sections than on the poetry, which is worse than I expected to do overall but I can live with it. I think I just need to brush up my skills of literary analysis, as I haven't done any sort of serious analysis of a piece of literature this summer. I'm confident that the course will prepare me for the AP test, but I think it is a bit ridiculous that a literature test is based on peoples' abilities to analyze writing when they have nearly no time to think about it, as it hardly seems to reflect one's ability to meaningfully read a piece of literature.
On to the results: I got 35 out of the 50 questions correct, performing slightly better on the prose sections than on the poetry, which is worse than I expected to do overall but I can live with it. I think I just need to brush up my skills of literary analysis, as I haven't done any sort of serious analysis of a piece of literature this summer. I'm confident that the course will prepare me for the AP test, but I think it is a bit ridiculous that a literature test is based on peoples' abilities to analyze writing when they have nearly no time to think about it, as it hardly seems to reflect one's ability to meaningfully read a piece of literature.
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