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Think Like a Top Scorer: AP English Language

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  1. Front matter and preface
  2. Know the exam before you start practicing
  3. Read the situation before you judge the choice
  4. Make evidence do work in the argument
  5. Read the rubric the way a scorer uses it
  6. Find what the writer is trying to accomplish
  7. Separate the main claim from its support
  8. See what each paragraph is doing
  9. How a passage develops an idea
  10. What style choices change
  11. Keep the logic when the prose gets difficult
  12. Why an answer choice fails
  13. Revise the sentence to fit the passage
  14. Frame the passage from the first sentence to the last
  15. Match the claim to the evidence
  16. Put the argument in the order it needs
  17. Revise the sentence without changing the writer\'s meaning
  18. Use punctuation to show the relationship
  19. When a revision does not fit the passage
  20. Decide what each source can support
  21. Write your position before the sources take over
  22. Use a source without letting it run the paragraph
  23. Say only what the graph can support
  24. Let complications change the claim
  25. Write the synthesis with the clock running
  26. Rhetorical choices worth analyzing
  27. Track how the passage changes as it moves
  28. Explain what the evidence is doing
  29. Build one interpretation across the passage
  30. Write the rhetorical analysis with the clock running
  31. Answer the claim the prompt actually gives you
  32. Choose evidence you can explain
  33. Make the example prove something
  34. How qualification changes a claim
  35. Write the argument with the clock running
  36. Using Bluebook tools under time
  37. Managing the full free-response section
  38. Final mixed practice
  39. Practice Exam 1
  40. Practice Exam 2

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