So you're starting your AP English Language review, and
you have no idea where to start.
Well, you found the right place because in this video, we're going
to go over 15 must know AP English Language study tips for at home,
multiple choice, as well as the FRQs.
By the end of this video, you're going to have some quick strategies that you
can start using today to score that five.
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Let's kick things off by talking about what you can do at home.
The first tip we have for you is to always be reading.
Read, read, read, and then read some more.
Reading has a ton of benefits, like building up your vocabulary, as well
as your understanding of different syntaxes and sentence structures.
It also challenges you to think about the author's perspective and the motivations
behind why something has been written.
The more reading you do, the better equipped you'll be for him having a
ton of resources and literary works to reference your AP English Language essays.
Tip two is that flashcards are your friends.
You need to know all sorts of literary devices as well as rhetorical techniques.
So you don't want to be caught scrambling on test day, trying to
think about that particular definition.
Make yourself a set of flashcards that go over the commonly tested literary
devices as well as rhetorical techniques.
Make sure you so include grammar and punctuation in your flashcards as well.
It's important to note that grammar and punctuation plays a big role
in the way that it author's pros is presented aside from the words
that the author uses themselves.
Tip three is to remember to take your homework seriously over the course of
the year, especially your summer reading.
Oftentimes, AP English Language teachers will assign you some
summer readings ahead of time.
And so, it's a good opportunity for you to get a head start in the school year.
It's really important that you complete all of your homework over the course of
the school year, because it'll give you more opportunities to practice analyzing
things like the literary devices, as well as the rhetorical techniques that authors
are using in the works you're studying.
Practice makes perfect.
So make sure that you completing all of your assignments
throughout the school year.
That way you'll be better prepared come testing.
Tip four is to seek other opportunities for practice.
You can do this through an old school review book like a Barron's or a
Princeton review book, or you can use an online practice resource like Albert.
Albert has tons of practice questions as well as detailed explanations so
that you can pinpoint what areas you're struggling in most, as you prepare
for your AP English Language exam.
Do a simple Google search as well.
There are a ton of other websites that can provide some additional
practice resources for you as you get closer and closer to your testing.
Tip number five when studying at home is to study with your friends.
Studying alone can get a little bit monotonous.
And so, having a group of friends to work through some practice questions
or some free responses can be a great way to get some different perspectives
in answering the same exact question.
It's these different perspectives that then give you an opportunity to see
how other students like yourself might have interpreted that same question
and to provide you with a broader depth of experience in terms of the
different ways that students interpret different phrasings of questions.
It's helpful that if you form a study group that you meet with regularly,
whether that's every other week or every month, just so that you build
up that cadence and you commit to the practice that's needed to prepare
for the AP English Language exam.
Now that we've covered five tips you can do at home.
Let's shift gears to talk about five strategies that you can take when it comes
to tackling the multiple choice section.
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The first tip we have for you when it comes to tackling multiple choice
questions in AP English Language is to make sure that you are practicing multiple
choice questions as early as possible.
All multiple choice questions will fall into one of these four buckets.
Rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, reasoning, and
organization, as well as style.
If these categories look familiar to you, it's because they're actually
the four big ideas in the AP course and exam description guide.
The second tip when it comes to tackling the multiple choice
section is to make sure that you are close reading as much as possible.
Staying engaged and actively reading is a key for success when it comes
to the multiple choice section.
This can mean a few different things, depending on the reader.
For some readers, it can mean simply annotating the passage with different
circles or underlines of key things that are going on as you're reading.
For others, it might come in the form of reading a passage more than once.
The first time for just key important information.
And then the second time for a deeper understanding.
Whatever the case may be for you, it's really important that you're actively
reading in every single passage.
Tip number three when it comes to the multiple choice section is
to look over the questions before you start reading the passages.
Now this tip will only help some students.
So you're going to want to see whether or not it applies to you, but some
students find it more helpful if they jump first to the questions that they're
going to be asked to from the passage before they then read the actual passage.
This way they can think about the questions they're about to answer once
they finish reading ahead of time and forward anticipate the sorts of questions
that the test maker is asking of them.
Tip four is to make sure that you are using the proccess of elimination or POE.
POE is really important because in most situations, when it comes to AP English
Language, you can eliminate one or two answer choices right off the bat.
So it can be a great way for you to increase your chances of scoring well on
your exam by simply getting your odds to be a higher percentile of being correct.
So as much as possible, try to narrow down your answer choices to two options,
and then select the one that you believe is more true than the other.
By doing so, you'll have a higher chance at scoring those valuable
points when it comes to the multiple choice section of the exam.
If you can't use process of elimination for a particularly difficult question,
then we recommend you simply circle the question, skip it, and then come
back to it later after you finished all the other questions in the section.
Tip number five when it comes to AP English Language multiple choice question
tips is to make sure that you put in a guess for every single question.
You have to remember that you did don't lose points for getting questions
wrong in the multiple choice section.
So it always makes sense to put something down so that you at
least have a shot at scoring points for that particular question.
All right.
Those were five quick AP multiple choice question tips for English language.
Now let's shift gears to talk about the free response section.
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Now let's go ahead and jump into our FRQ tips.
The first tip when it comes to tackling the FRQs is to practice using the
archive of previously released exams.
This resource can be found on AP central, which is hosted by the College Board.
What you'll find on this site are previously released exam questions
that were the actual free response questions that were given to AP
English Language test takers.
It's really important that you go through these questions and you try to answer
that question as if you were receiving that same question on your test day.
Then from there, review the scoring guidelines and also look through a
few of the sample responses that they provide you with just that you can
understand what the graders are looking for when they are reviewing these essays.
The second tip we have for you when it comes to the FRQ section
is to make sure that you're timing yourself and that you're pacing well.
On test day, you're going to have two hours and 15 minutes
to complete the FRQ section.
And that includes a fee 15 minute reading period.
So it's really important for you to make sure that you're not spending much more
than 40 minutes per essay, just so that every single essay that you're writing
has an adequate amount of time for you to develop the thesis and your supporting
evidence for supporting your thesis.
If you need help with timing yourself and your pacing, we recommend you couple this
tip with the prior tip and check out those previously released exam questions so you
can practice, seeing how long it takes for you to answer one of these FRQ questions.
Tip three is to make sure that you use the rubric.
Understand and master what the reader is looking for from your essay.
It's really important that you have a clear and defensible
thesis in every single essay you write for AP English Language.
It's also really important that you include things like specific evidence
and commentary that support your thesis.
You also need to make sure that you're making a clear and compelling argument.
So, if you aren't sure about what's on the rubric, be sure to check out the
College Board's breakdown of the rubric for the free response section, because
it's really important that you're thinking in the back of your head, "Oh, this is
a point for X, Y, Z, this is the point for ABC and so on" as you are writing
your essay for AP English Language.
Tip four is to make sure that you're paying attention to the task verbs that
are given to you in the FRQ prompt.
These tasks verse help you give direction as to what you need to address
in your AP English Language essay.
They'll ask you to do things like analyze or argue your position.
They might also ask you to do things like read, synthesize, or write.
You can find a more complete breakdown of the most commonly used task verbs in
the link in the video description below.
Be sure that you check this out and that you understand what each of
these tasks verbs is asking you for the AP English Language FRQ section.
Tip number five, it really comes full circle.
And that is to remember your rhetorical devices and techniques.
We went over this at the very beginning, and it's really important
that we emphasize this one more time here for the FRQ section.
You don't necessarily need to always call out these techniques or name
the devices by name, but what you do need to know is, what the purpose of
this rhetorical device or technique is on the actual passage itself.
If you can recall the rhetorical device by all means include that just to be safe.
But if you can't, focus on helping your reader understand that you do
actually get what the rhetorical device or technical unique is
that's being used in this situation.
There you have it.
15 must know AP English Language review tips.
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