Reality Check

First, the good news. The ten students listed below (in alphabetical order), are the ten top ranked students (according to their average multiple choice test scores) so far this year. Congratulations!

BARTON, CHRIS
DU, WILLIE
FENDELL, SAM
GANESH, VANATHI
KENNEDY, MIKA
LAI, SHELLEY
LIU, CHANG
MEYERZON, VEN
XIONG, TIANXIANG
YIM, JOSHUA

Granted, the multiple choice is only 45% of your overall score, but it's the most objective assessment of a student's general preparedness for the exam. I believe a strong performance on the multiple choice is helpful not only in getting a better score, but in psyching you up for the three essays to follow.

Think about it: you get the MC first, if you do well, you feel good going into the essay portion and that confidence translates into a more fluid, unencumbered thought-process as you write your essays. Whereas if you bomb the MC, you freak out and are distracted during the essay portion. Don't count on essays to pull you through if you're not doing well on the MC, it's not that simple.

On the other end of the spectrum, these are the SID#s of the 21 students still enrolled in AP English whose average MC scores are at 60% and below (in numeric order). If your SID# is listed below, I hope you're scoring consistently at 7 and above on the essays. You might scrape a pass if your essays are exceptionally strong and you won't be shaken up by a difficult MC exam, but that is a long shot. You have ONE more multiple choice exam this Friday to prove that you have what it takes to pass this thing...the question is, are you going to step up or flop out?

There's still time to cram in some heavy duty test prep on your own...but not much, we're down to 43 days (not SCHOOL days, just DAYS) before the big exam. If you buckle down NOW, you might still pull it off. Get a prep book, systematically work your way through it, reviewing your weak points, drill yourself on them until you improve. You can do it if you want to...how much do you WANT to?

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