AP Lit Practice Prompts
Prompts for practice at home will be loaded continually. When you have 40 minutes within which to practice writing an essay, click on a prompt and get started.
Novel or Play Prompts -- Click here. This first link contains a large number of passages on a single document, without book lists.
When reading the prompt, look for the actual tasks asked of you. If the question contains a quote to get you thinking, reference it and include the name of the person who said or wrote this line and the text from which it was pulled (if given), but do not feel that you need to rewrite the quote in its entirety. This could be a great first line to your introduction, which can be just two lines. Use throughout your essay any philosophical terms from the quote in your paper. Use quotation marks to draw the readers to it. Use the literary terms given to you in the prompt in your paper as well. These terms are not put in quotation marks.
To practice of the Novel/Play essay, print the many prompts found in the above link and cut them out. Then randomly select a prompt, set a time for 5 minutes and plan your essay. Create a thesis statement and block out the body paragraph ideas. I don't recommend writing a bunch of essays although you certainly can if you think that would be helpful. Most of you already write reasonably or quite well. The biggest concern I have for you is the time constraint. If you can get many prompts organized for the writing of an essay down to about 5 minutes, that will give you much more time to get the essay written, which will certainly help your score.
Email me if you have any questions. Good luck studying!
When reading the prompt, look for the actual tasks asked of you. If the question contains a quote to get you thinking, reference it and include the name of the person who said or wrote this line and the text from which it was pulled (if given), but do not feel that you need to rewrite the quote in its entirety. This could be a great first line to your introduction, which can be just two lines. Use throughout your essay any philosophical terms from the quote in your paper. Use quotation marks to draw the readers to it. Use the literary terms given to you in the prompt in your paper as well. These terms are not put in quotation marks.
To practice of the Novel/Play essay, print the many prompts found in the above link and cut them out. Then randomly select a prompt, set a time for 5 minutes and plan your essay. Create a thesis statement and block out the body paragraph ideas. I don't recommend writing a bunch of essays although you certainly can if you think that would be helpful. Most of you already write reasonably or quite well. The biggest concern I have for you is the time constraint. If you can get many prompts organized for the writing of an essay down to about 5 minutes, that will give you much more time to get the essay written, which will certainly help your score.
Email me if you have any questions. Good luck studying!
Here are practice tests from AP Lit 2005
Both Form B and Free Response Tests contain the usual poem, passage and novel/play prompts.
FORM B TESTS: Click here.
Scoring Guide: Click here
Commentary: Click here.
All Writing Samples: Click here.
FREE RESPONSE TESTS: Click here
Scoring Guide: Click here.
Scoring Commentary: Click here.
All Writing Samples: Click here.
Both Form B and Free Response Tests contain the usual poem, passage and novel/play prompts.
FORM B TESTS: Click here.
Scoring Guide: Click here
Commentary: Click here.
All Writing Samples: Click here.
FREE RESPONSE TESTS: Click here
Scoring Guide: Click here.
Scoring Commentary: Click here.
All Writing Samples: Click here.
Here are practice tests from AP Lit 2006
Both Form B and Free Response Tests contain the usual poem, passage and novel/play prompts.
FORM B TESTS: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and All Samples: Click here.
Scoring Guide: Click here
Scoring Commentary and Poetry: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Passage: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Novel / Play: Click here.
FREE RESPONSE TESTS: Click here
Scoring Guide: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Poetry Samples: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Passage Samples: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Novel / Play Samples: Click here.
Both Form B and Free Response Tests contain the usual poem, passage and novel/play prompts.
FORM B TESTS: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and All Samples: Click here.
Scoring Guide: Click here
Scoring Commentary and Poetry: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Passage: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Novel / Play: Click here.
FREE RESPONSE TESTS: Click here
Scoring Guide: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Poetry Samples: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Passage Samples: Click here.
Scoring Commentary and Novel / Play Samples: Click here.