Listen, you've worked hard all year. Now's the time to relax and get enough rest to clear your head for tomorrow. So tonight, do not cram. Do not stay up late. Pick one area you're still not too sure of, do a little brushing up, and go to bed. Early. Like before 11pm.
Here's what you might try to finish fine tuning. Choose one:
- Review one or two of your major works at Sparknotes. Review your annotations.
- Sign out a review book and complete a multiple choice test
- Write a practice essay. Grab one of my extra credit essays out of the bin and complete it.
- Multiple Choice
- Some passages and poems are accessible. Some are more antiquated. Scan through the poems and passages. Quickly find the ones that you feel comfortable with. Answer those questions first. Then go back and attack the other passages.
- 1 point, -1/4 point, 0 points - If you have no idea, but can absolutely eliminate one of the answers, then statistically you've got a pretty good chance by taking your best guess (over the course of the exam)
- Read the questions (not the answers) quickly, read the passage, then read each question and the corresponding lines carefully.
- chronological
- Essays
- Answer the entire question. Do not ignore statements like "explain how it relates to the meaning of the work as a whole"
- Your introductions can be two sentences:
- Make a brief, general statement about the topic
- Then, answer the question, briefly, in the last sentence of the introduction.
- "In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor serves as a mentor to Robert Walton by sharing his own story of overreaching."
- Write, write, write. Use all of your time.
- No rough draft. Outline.
- Write legibly (Jason!)
- Obviously, answer all three questions. Manage your time.
