More so the fact that people’s attention spans have dwindled within the past decade so longer and more substance based passengers pose too much attention necessary than say a quick concise paragraph with an immediate question. Part of the score isn’t just understanding how to arrive at one answer like how they do nowadays where college board spoon feeds you the English questions one at a time, but understanding how to grasp the bigger picture and connect it to a set of questions
I am actually really scared for the AP Lang exam in May. I have always been a math person and in English I do terrible compared in percentile. I get good grades though. I am always hoping for the highest I can get (5) but I feel like I should aim for a 3 or a 4…
I think high school English difficulty is way overinflated and it and especially the English Regents in New York need to be WAY easier! Math should be a little more challenging on the other hand. When I was tested in both math and language skills my math was way above standard whereas reading was way below!
More than being difficult I think the focus on high school English classes is kinda pointless. I think they should emphasize on technical language skills or creating stories instead of literary analysis. This includes public speaking, persuading others, arguing with contentions, etc. AP lang would be nice if it actually prepared you for college essays (it doesn’t currently bc it’s all lit focused). AP lang cpuld also be refined to help future film majors and law majors or in general help with all forms of writing beyond just rhetoric.
@@theunknownminer6040 As someone who is now in ENG102 and was in AP English Lang but never paid for the exam, I can definitely tell you that it prepares you for college. Not only do we do a lot of analyses on non-fictional work, but we also focus on literature and works breaching fictionalism, which AP taught. What I will say, however, is that the essays come out undeveloped and adolescent in comparison to their college versions; unless they shift the format to 3 or more fleshed-out essays submitted to CollegeBoard by May (similar to AP research), the essays are going to have their shortcomings in their contemporary format.
In all seriousness though, as a student who’s currently taking AP Lang, I think the current exam is good as it is. I believe that simplifying the exam any further would begin to make the course stray from its original goal of being a college-level English class. The SAT should indeed be more accessible and the changes present in the new DSAT do make sense as a lot more students take the SAT and a lot more schools emphasize it as a way to get into college and whatnot. On the other hand, the AP Lang exam is more centered on delivering a college level course, which is, in and of itself a challenging. Only a select number of students will take the exam and that group of students would most likely prefer the rigor and concepts taught in the course.
As someone who took AP Lang last year (got a 5 somehow), I genuinely think AP Lang has helped my reading comprehension skills and writing skills greatly and I genuinely feel like I learned a lot from the class. The questions on the test are designed to be a more difficult test (basically ACT and SAT passages on steroids) designed to teach you college-level English.
@joonlee16 Oh I see. I looked into it, but it looks like it's minor changes that only mildly affect the course structure. The exam is unaffected and the overall course is set to remain predominantly the same, so it may not be Short worthy
pls do not!! i love longer passages with more questions rather than short, overcomplexized excerpts with 1 question
More so the fact that people’s attention spans have dwindled within the past decade so longer and more substance based passengers pose too much attention necessary than say a quick concise paragraph with an immediate question. Part of the score isn’t just understanding how to arrive at one answer like how they do nowadays where college board spoon feeds you the English questions one at a time, but understanding how to grasp the bigger picture and connect it to a set of questions
I am actually really scared for the AP Lang exam in May. I have always been a math person and in English I do terrible compared in percentile. I get good grades though. I am always hoping for the highest I can get (5) but I feel like I should aim for a 3 or a 4…
I think high school English difficulty is way overinflated and it and especially the English Regents in New York need to be WAY easier! Math should be a little more challenging on the other hand. When I was tested in both math and language skills my math was way above standard whereas reading was way below!
you might just be better at math than English my friend
I relate to you with standardized test scores.
Regents is really easy
More than being difficult I think the focus on high school English classes is kinda pointless. I think they should emphasize on technical language skills or creating stories instead of literary analysis. This includes public speaking, persuading others, arguing with contentions, etc. AP lang would be nice if it actually prepared you for college essays (it doesn’t currently bc it’s all lit focused). AP lang cpuld also be refined to help future film majors and law majors or in general help with all forms of writing beyond just rhetoric.
@@theunknownminer6040 As someone who is now in ENG102 and was in AP English Lang but never paid for the exam, I can definitely tell you that it prepares you for college. Not only do we do a lot of analyses on non-fictional work, but we also focus on literature and works breaching fictionalism, which AP taught. What I will say, however, is that the essays come out undeveloped and adolescent in comparison to their college versions; unless they shift the format to 3 or more fleshed-out essays submitted to CollegeBoard by May (similar to AP research), the essays are going to have their shortcomings in their contemporary format.
Watch this be a synthesis prompt on the AP and one of the sources provided is the transcript for this video
In all seriousness though, as a student who’s currently taking AP Lang, I think the current exam is good as it is. I believe that simplifying the exam any further would begin to make the course stray from its original goal of being a college-level English class. The SAT should indeed be more accessible and the changes present in the new DSAT do make sense as a lot more students take the SAT and a lot more schools emphasize it as a way to get into college and whatnot. On the other hand, the AP Lang exam is more centered on delivering a college level course, which is, in and of itself a challenging. Only a select number of students will take the exam and that group of students would most likely prefer the rigor and concepts taught in the course.
As someone who took AP Lang last year (got a 5 somehow), I genuinely think AP Lang has helped my reading comprehension skills and writing skills greatly and I genuinely feel like I learned a lot from the class. The questions on the test are designed to be a more difficult test (basically ACT and SAT passages on steroids) designed to teach you college-level English.
Are you covering AP Bio changes in an upcoming short?
@@joonlee16 What's up with AP Bio?
@Mr.AP5 They revised the course for next year
@joonlee16 Oh I see. I looked into it, but it looks like it's minor changes that only mildly affect the course structure. The exam is unaffected and the overall course is set to remain predominantly the same, so it may not be Short worthy
@@joonlee16 ^
@@Mr.AP5 Ok cool. I'm assuming you already covered the AP CSA changes right
The class I want to take
I'm honestly scared for this exam in May bc I have a bad teacher😰
It’s Mr ap with the mustache!!!
Yay
@@Mr.AP5 🗣️🗣️
You guys should make a video ranking AP classes based on their icons / colors
@@joonlee16 Interesting suggestion
@Mr.AP5 Personally and unironically, AP Precalculus is one of my favorite icon + color combinations.
@@Mr.AP5 Physics 1 is also nice
@@joonlee16 Yeah those are sweet ngl
@@Mr.AP5 So you admit to liking AP Precalculus in some capacity?
They should change it by cancelling the exam so I don’t have to take it in May 😁
You could just not show up
You can either cancel it or just not take it
lets goooo