AP English Literature Examination
* Essentially first year college courses
* Frees space in college schedule for more interesting courses (other than freshman English)
* Write admissions office for school’s policy on scores
* In general, a 4 or 5 always receives credit (if it is offered) / a 3 is borderline
* 30% score 4 or 5 / 30% score 3 / 40% score 1 or 2
* Test format: 3 hour exam / 150 point scale / only receive one score from ETS
* Section I: (60 minutes)
- 45% of grade
- 50-55 multiple choice questions
- raw score calculated like SAT (.25 penalty)
- 4 or 5 prose/poetry passages - 10-15 questions each
- raw score multiplied by 1.3
* Section II: (120 minutes)
- 55% of grade
- 27 max. points (0-9 per essay)
- analysis of a poem / analysis of prose / open essay
- each essay read by different evaluator
- essay score multiplied by 3.0556
- essay holistically scored
* ETS recommends: read works from 15th - 21st century
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