AP® English Literature and Composition · Prose Fiction on the Multiple-Choice Section
Attack Order: Line References, Whole-Passage Questions, Hard Syntax
Watch it explained
- How it worksHow does sorting questions by where they point into a passage cut your rereading roughly in half?
- Worked exampleWalk me through attacking an 11 question set where three of the questions cover the whole passage.
- Common mistakeWhy isn't reading the whole passage carefully first the fastest route through a set?
- Going furtherWhat changes when the passage is pre-1900 prose and the syntax slows your first read to a crawl?
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A prose fiction set has 12 questions: 6 name specific line numbers, 3 ask about the whole passage, and the rest quote a phrase without a line reference. The student has 11 minutes for the set.
What order makes the best use of the time?End of topic.