1. AP Test

2. Set Your Goals
What score do you need, and what are your obstacles to achieving it?

3. Practice Your Vocabulary
Study unfamiliar words and literary terms regularly.
Make Flashcards
Commit to learning words a week.
Take an interest in the words you encounter in your assigned reading that you do not know.
Look words up in a dictionary and be sure to write their definitions down.
Writing the word and its definition will help to get the word in your head.

4. Read, read, read
Read challenging materials, including articles in newspapers and magazines.
News, analysis, opinion articles
Knowledge of current events
Opinion articles can help you read critically and analyze rhetorical strategies
Charts, ads, political cartoons

5. Write, write, write
Write your opinions and analyze the world around you.
The more you write, the better you will be.
Blog: interesting issues and ideas.
School paper
Clearly and convincingly
Back up your arguments with evidence
Jot down reoccurring problems in your writing.
Draft and redraft your essays.

6. Follow a routine
Take good notes in class, review them, and continue your work outside of class.
Make the most of your time.
Set a schedule
Ask for clarification

7. Resources AP English and Language Composition- Barron
Cracking the AP Language and Composition Exam- The Princeton Review
5 steps to a 5 –McGraw-Hill
Online Sources
Majortest.com/sat/wordlist

8. Work Cited
Sisson, Jocelyn. My Max Score: AP English Language and Composition. Naperville: Sourcebooks, Inc., Print.