Advanced Placement Exams are Coming!

Welp. Party’s over. You know what that means.

That’s right. Advanced Placement exams are coming up.

Now, not only are these more important than my actual third trimester/end of the year exams, but

they are more time consuming.

Great. Just what I need.

            First off, I’d like to say that I’ve never taken any AP tests before, and I am terrified. My mother forced me to sign up back in April for the AP exams in May, and I am not looking forward to them. I don’t feel that I know what I’m doing, and it will probably just be a waste of $180 ($90 a pop). I wish that I could drop out of the exams just like you can drop out of the classes, but, unfortunately, I can’t. It is too late.

            I took two Advanced Placement classes this year in the forms of: Advanced Placement United States History and Advanced Placement Language and Composition (this class). Maybe I’m just freaking out because these topics are exactly the most favorite of everyone’s. APUSH (American History) is basically just remembering a bunch of facts, dates, people, and wars. Ah? Presidents… not my forte. Hopefully I can learn that president song in a weekend. From the colonization of our great country til’ 9/11 (my birthday). A lot of shniz went down in this time period. The crazy thing is I’d almost rather learn what happened with the empires back in Europe from the beginning of time until now! To me, it is more diverse culturally. I guess I’ll just enjoy Advanced Placement World History next year that much more!

            Moving on the Advanced Placement Language and Composition. This is the class that I am doing this blog out of. It has been a very nice class to be in this year… full of discussions, documentaries, analysis of texts, reading, and creative writing! I am pretty good in all of these except… analysis of texts and reading. I have trouble focusing on passages and answering ten to fifteen questions on what the author’s reasons were for writing what and how they did. I am more of a comprehension gal, myself. I could tell you what the colors of the stripes of the boy’s jacket in the third row of the Michael Jackson concert, but I don’t know if I could tell you why the author chose to use parallel structure, extended metaphors, or zeugmas. (What are these?... Still don’t know.)

            Anyway, I’d like some prayers for these next few weeks. Hopefully God will give me the strength and motivation to study a little at least. I was originally planning on not studying at all, and just seeing how well the classes have prepared me, but I’m thinking I might get a fail (0,1, or 2) if I follow through with that. You can be dang sure I didn’t go out and waste $50 at Barnes and Noble buying Advanced Placement study books. 1) Those things are too long to read. 2) Those things are overkill. 3) You won’t have time to read it all and retain anything. 4) Too expensive!

            Wish me luck guys! Hopefully I can get a 3,4, or 5. (I can only get credit for college courses if I get at least a 4… maybe a 5!) Guess I’ll be taking it in college anyway… (557)