Help!-Leah Noble

Overall, I felt very prepared for the AP test this year and thought that teaching to the test was effective in preparation for the test. Although sometimes a pain, the practice tests we did throughout the year helped me get an idea of what the test would be like. I also enjoyed being able to look back at my scores from the beginning of the year and seeing the progress I had made. It's nice to be able to physically see improvement. One thing I wish we had done more of is vocabulary. Although the vocab we learned first semester helped some, I wish we had something like a list of obscure words that have shown up on previous tests because I felt like there were several times that I knew the answer to the question but didn't know what option to pick because I was not familiar with the vocabulary used in the answer choices. Concerning the essays, I liked discussing them in small groups better than as a whole class. I felt very prepared for the analysis essay, but less so for the argument and synthesis ones. When I wrote those two essays on the test, I felt as if I had reverted back to my old ways of writing those kinds of essays and forgot all that we had learned. This might have happened due to the fact that I had already taken 4 other AP tests prior to this one and I was burned out, but I also think it might have happened partly because I didn't feel like I had enough guidance in how to write these and practice doing them.