First: an important message from the college board about your scores: AP scores
MULTIPLE CHOICE PRACTICE-30 minutes/2 passages
Today I would like you to try to use the following strategies (if you haven't tried them already):
Try this: Read the questions first and put brackets and numbers around the text corresponding to each question.
1. Annotate the passage by underlining strong opinions and circling/labeling key words and rhetorical strategies that stand out.
2. When you read the questions, cover the answers and read only the question stems. Can you anticipate what the right answer should be?
3. Read the answers and judge each one as a true/false statement.
4. Answer the "easy" ones first and then go back to the harder ones in the set.
5. For the tough ones:
5. For the tough ones:
- Go back and reread the focused part of the text and eliminate the obviously wrong answers.
- Do any of the other questions in the set give you clues to the right answer? Use them.
- Watch out for distractors that are only PARTIALLY correct.
- Then, consider carefully the phrasing of the answer. Look carefully for qualifying or clarifying terms; those are clues that this is probably the right answer (if you have to make an educated guess).
- Look for two statements that balance (or contrast) each other. One of them is probably the right answer.
Here is a document I found helpful in preparing this list for you: http://goo.gl/L2cAXv Thank you Mr. Gunnar!
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