Exam Structure and Grammar Notes

Question 1

How long is the multiple choice portion of the exam?

Answer 1

1 hour and 55 minutes

Question 2

What percentage is the multiple choice on the exam

Answer 2

45%

Question 3

How many multiple-choice passages will there be on the exam?

Answer 3

5 (2-3 prose)(2-3 poetry)

Question 4

How many multiple-choice questions will be on each passage?

Answer 4

8-13

Question 5

How long will the free response portion of the exam be?

Answer 5

2 hours

Question 6

How many essays will be in the free response portion of the exam?

Answer 6

3 (40 minutes each)

Question 7

What percent of the overall score is the free response portion?

Answer 7

55%

Question 8

What will the first FRQ be about?

Answer 8

Poems

Question 9

What will the second FRQ be about?

Answer 9

Prose (excerpts from novels and short stories)

Question 10

What will the third FRQ be about?

Answer 10

Literary Argument

Question 11

What are the guidelines for the poem FRQ?

Answer 11

• Deals with complexity
  *Must mention Lit devices
  *Must use small quotations to support assertions

Question 12

What are the guidelines for the prose FRQ?

Answer 12

*Deals with complexity
*Must mention Lit devices
*Must use small quotations to support assertions

Question 13

What are the guidelines for the literary argument FRQ?

Answer 13

• Choose a novel of literary merit to support your answer
  *Deals with the meaning of the work
  *No quotations or devices required
  *Pinpoint specific events in the novel to analyze

Question 14

What do you need to do if you decide to use devices such as tone, diction, and imagery?

Answer 14

Connect it to a specific adjective beforehand.

Question 15

When referring to a person you…

Answer 15

Use the word “who” rather than the word “that”

Question 16

When you have a sentence using “therefore,” “however,” or “furthermore,” you…

Answer 16

Use a semicolon in front of that adverb

Question 17

What do you need to do when citing poems and short story titles?

Answer 17

Put the title in quotations

Question 18

When citing the titles for novels or plays you need to…

Answer 18

Put the title in italics

Question 19

What are you trying to discuss instead of characters in poems?

Answer 19

The speaker

Question 20

Instead of referring to “paragraphs” in poems, call them…

Answer 20

Stanzas

Question 21

When dealing with punctuation and quotations…

Answer 21

Punctuation goes inside closed quotation marks.

Question 22

When should you NOT have a comma?

Answer 22

Before the word “because”

Question 23

When should almost ALWAYS have a comma?

Answer 23

Before the word “which”