Overall, I felt that I did well on the AP Language exam. The protors were nice enough to tell everyone how much time we had left, and they even told us when it was recommended to move on from each section. This made it easy for me to keep track of time, which allowed me to pace myself. I feel that I was able to get at least half of the multiple choice questions correct. I didn't understand the first passage, but I still managed to answer the questions in a decent amount of time. In fact, I had four minutes left when I was on my last question. There was one question that asked about what "et al" meant. I luckily could answer this question due to helping my friend proofread her research paper. She had used "et al" in her paper, and I had to ask her what it meant. I didn't expect that this very thing I asked would be on the AP exam. Also, there weren't many questions that asked about rhetorical devices, so I'm glad I didn't spend time memorizing all of the rhetorical devices.
On the other hand, there were some sections that didn't go do well. The synthesis and rhetorical essays were alright, but the argument essay is where everything went downhill. I first stared at the prompt trying to figure out what "artifice" meant. After that I used two examples that I felt were original and not personal. However, the last example I put was horrible. I wrote about a personal experience where I was talking with my friend about how deceptive news can be. That would've been a decent example, but I completely just went off topic, and I feel like I didn't even connect it to my argument properly. I was getting tired when I wrote this example, so that's probably why I ended up not making sense. I spent way too much time with this example, which led to me only having one sentence as my conclusion. Hopefully, that one example won't completely bring down my grade for that section. Anyway, I feel that I got at least a 3 on this exam, which is what I was aiming for.
