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Originally posted by pixell
I didn't take many AP courses so my perception is only based on the few my school offered. For my classes, the teachers made a point to emphasize tricks you could use in essays to get higher scores, etc. I don't remember much, but I know there were certain sentence structures my AP English Language teacher would want us to use in pretty much every essay. I was horrible about paying attention in class so I can't remember what they were any more.
In my experience, the English (both language and literature) tests were much more "taught to the test" than history, math or computer science were.
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So there are 'tricks' you can use to increase your score on the Lit/Lang tests . . . let's just think about this. If these 'tricks' become prevalent, wouldn't they cease to increase score? Remember there is no absolute scale . . .
Plus, that's two tests out of a few dozen? I just don't think you can defend the 'teaching to the test' concept here . . . it's clever jargon, and it sounds pretty, but it's an empty, utterly meaningless phrase.