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The buttons below can take you to a variety of practice passages with assessment questions to help you work on your reading comprehension and multiple choice skills. Some of the passages are tough, likely harder than the ones on the AP exam, but they can help you!
As always, know that I am more than happy to work with you if you would like to review your work and the passages together!
Note: I can't reproduce any CB or formal review materials on here, but remember that there are practice passages from the CB available to you in AP Classroom and ones that fit with the style of CB in the next section. These passages and questions can help you with a more general understanding of rhetorical analysis.
How to Approach MC
How to Approach MC
The multiple choice portion of the exam may only be an hour (about a third of the test time), but it is worth 45% of the total score. Answering multiple choice for AP Lang is very much a mind game so the College Board can see the extent to which you read with intention and understanding. Here are some tips to help you when working through passages with multiple choice:
Consider reading the questions before reading the passage. Reading the questions first can help you to read the passage more efficiently. If the questions ask about a word in context, tone, purpose, etc. you can more easily look for those in the passage. That being said, I suggest that you DO NOT look at the answer choices first, otherwise you may "see" the distractor in the passage and quickly pick it and get the question wrong.
You don't need to read the passages in order. You might want to take like 30 seconds at the beginning of the multiple choice portion to glance over the passages and pick one that you think you might have an easier time with. This helps you build some confidence- remember it's a mind game!
Make sure you reference text AROUND the specific lines the passage is asking about. Some people call this "five above, five below", meaning when a question references a specific line number, you may want to go back and reread the five lines above that specific line, as well as the five lines below. This ensures that you are looking at that line within a larger context of the passage. Sometimes the distractor is capitalizing on you not considering the lines in context.
As annoying as it is, make sure you look for the BEST answer, not just the right answer. Oftentimes the distractor isn't entirely incorrect, it just might not encompass and respond to the question as fully or as effectively as the correct answer. The best way to find the best answer is process of elimination.
Read the questions and answer choices CAREFULLY. Sometimes the correct answer vs. the distractor can come down to a single word or phrase that makes it the best choice, one that fully and correctly answers the question.
You can do it!!!
Click the buttons below to go to pages with practice passages and MC questions!
REMEMBER: You can ALWAYS book a Bulldog Time Session or other time to talk through past assessments or go through a practice passage together. You just need to let me know in advance!
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