Leaning Literary: AP Literature Testing Strategy

A Test of Your Literary Analysis Skills

Part I: Multiple Choice (60 min. to answer 55 questions)

You will take one multiple choice exam of 55 questions.
There will be five passages with 10-15 questions each.
The passages will be from any literary period from the Renaissance to the present. Your historical studies help, but the focus of all questioning is analysis.
You should expect complete poems and selections from novels, play, short stories, or literary essays.
You have less than one minute per question (due to reading time).
You should simply guess if you run out of time (there is no guessing penalty).
You don't have to get the highest score on the M.C. to pass the exam; see this example graph.
You must write in pencil.

Do you know the parts of speech? Review Bedford Section XI, part 62.
Do you know how to use an apostrophe for possession? Review Bedford VII, part 36.

Part II: Three Analysis Essays (40 min. for each essay; 120 min. total)

You will respond to two passage-based prompts (one poetry and one prose/drama, generally) and one open or free-response prompt (based on a text you choose from your own previous reading).
You must write in pen.