How to Ace the AP Literature Prose Essay 

Hey AP Lit 2023 students, I'm wishing you the best for this year's exam! Here are also some tips to help you as you're studying: 1. If you ever feel overwhelmed when you see long prose passages, break up the passage into smaller chunks when practicing. Annotate one chunk with as much detail as possible, take a break, and move onto the next part. Once you've annotated the whole passage, piece all of your notes together. 2. To practice developing a line of reasoning, make a linear flowchart with the individual steps of logic or claims that you would include in a paragraph for the prose essay. 3. Look over the practice prose essays you've written and make a list of your most common grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. Some common mistakes include comma splices, run-on sentences, dangling modifiers, and sentence fragments. Check out Purdue Owl's exercises to practice your grammar, sentence structure, and more: owl.purdue.edu/owl_exercises/index.html. 4. When writing your practice essays, use a stopwatch to see how much time it takes you to write each paragraph. Ideally, you should spend the most amount of time on your body paragraphs and the least amount of time on your introduction and conclusion. 5. Want to read some examples of literary analysis essays from experts? Go to scholar.google.com/ and type in the title of a book you've read for class along with the phrase "literary criticism." You'll likely find free, online scholarly articles written about books that you've read. Examine how these writers integrate quotes from original texts into their essays and critically analyze those texts to see how you can do the same. 6. Make sure to watch my AP Lit playlist to prepare: ru-vid.com/group/PL0B_uKjIILSs6UaHU1khPeBJofOLa7G36.

who else is here cause of the ap lit test tomorrow? I haven't studied at all, in fact I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO STUDY FOR AN AP LIT TEST HAHA

Where are my last night AP Lit Crammers at lol? Best of luck to all of you!!

WHOEVER HAVE AP LIT EXAM TOMORROW. I LOVE YOU GUYS AND GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!

the exam is in 3 hours and i’m just now watching this

oh look it’s two ap lit students who are cramming less than an hour before the test😳😳

Good luck AP Lit fam, you got this! I enjoyed reading all of your comments last night lol, wishing you the best

me watching this thirty minutes before my ap exam like 0.0

Hi 2024 AP Lit students, good luck on the exam! I enjoyed helping a lot of you through tutoring, DMs, and comments this year. After the exam, feel free to come back and let me know if you found my videos useful.

My exam is tomorrow and this popped up in my recommendation so here I am. I feel pretty good about this, I've already written this essay in the video. Good luck to everyone taking it today, let's get that credit!!

people saying they're watching this before the 30 mins, I ALREADY CHECKED IN. IM ON MY 30 MINS I GOT 10 MINS TO START MY TEST

i do be watching this 2 hours before the exam 😳

Anyone else waited to study for AP Lit until the morning before??

its so easy going over prompts witsomeone else but the second i have to do it alone my thinking flow just collapses

ahahahaha it’s really funny seeing everyone here for the cram session before the exam tomorrow

My lit exam is in 16 minutes and I just started watching this. I'm going to do great I'm sure

Ap lit cramming!!!

If you have an AP Lit test tmw BEST OF LUCK AND ILY

Our whole AP exam grade is based on this one prose analysis essay... Good luck to all of us! (p.s. The exam in my timezone is at 4AM, so I have to wake up at 3:30AM to get ready. So feel lucky if you are in EST time.)

this was so helpful!! i listened to this yesterday and you had really good tips for writing the essay. thank you so much!!

Could you do another example of this? It would help since this year the AP Lit exam is one Prose FRQ for 45 min. Love the videos.

Good luck guys... its may again!

one hour until the exam and i am just now watching this LETS GOOOOO

elizabeth-jane says “bruh”

Thank you, Ms. Peer Editor! You SAVED me on the AP Lit Exam. Five all day! Straight to the top!

I really hope my exam isn’t some old british excerpt

The exam starts in 7 minutes and I've just started watching this. Good luck to everyone

Thank you. When I write an essay I always extract a sufficient amount of material from the text, but I get lost when transferring those ideas to paper. I think planning is my issue. This video is extremely detailed, and I appreciate the amount of work you put into making it. I will practice writing essays until may, when I test. Hopefully I will score a four or a five.

This is such a good youtube channel.

Thanks this is very helpful to me since I have to do a timed prose essay tomorrow that’s apart of my exam

thank you! That was really helpful!

You guys are making me proud of myself for watching this three days before the exam hahahaha

the exam starts in 3 minutes and i’m watching this now...

we've got the whole hogwarts here

My AP Lit Exam is literally tmw and I need to get a good scoreeeee. I hope I'll do good!!!

17 min till the test comes up.... good luck y’all.... may the force be with you all

good luck yall

this video is literally so great

Like 2 hours until the exam... good luck

Dumbledores, hag-rid, and Minerva IM DYINGGGGG

Wow I love your channel! You are doing a great job :) keep up the wonderful work

I’m so glad I’m not taking the ap lit test this year 😊

Boy used to carry wash to a pig trough and he's mocking her, talking about carrying wash to a pig trough. What a nerd.

Exam in 10 minutes and just started studying let’s go!

Studying less than 3 hours before the exam gang?

Bruh I'm here 15 minutes before the exam. The timer is literally counting down lmao

How do you come to develop an insightful statement in your writing? Also, is there a recommended number of quotes you should use for each paragraph?

Watching this 30 seconds before the exam starts is where I’m at

Me right now with the AP clock ticking down... 12 min until my test starts 👁👄👁

I have literally have 6 min until the 30 min mark to login and get myself ready.

Thank you for this! It is really helpful and it'll help tremendously on todays AP English Exam. G

best of luck y'all

just finished watching this 2 minutes before the exam starts

it's twenty minutes before the exam and I'm just hoping my internet cuts out

It was funny sorting by newest right before the exam to see all of the people commenting, and then checking after to see them all post 50 minutes ago.

How do you study for this☠️ I’m winging it

it's tomorrow and i'm just now starting to study. im doomed

literally watching this 14 min before i begin the test lmao

who else is watching this 15 minutes before the actual exam 🙈

My test is at 4 am so I've been staying awake the entire night :(. But I've been binge watching your videos and they've really helped and I'm a bit more confident than I was hours ago so thank you!

The exam is in ten minutes and I'm watching this on 2x speed ✌️

Good luck everyone

scared to take the exam because the timer makes me nervous i tried to do three practice essays on my own and only wrote one because the timer and the passage freaked me out. the one I got through was from 2002 and it was a shorter passage that was pretty easy to understand but the ones they give us now I can barely understand it scares me

The test starts in 4 minutes 👁👄👁

make up test tomorrow let’s gooo

Here for Conway

not me watching videos 20 minutes before my test😔

My exam is in 5 mins and im just watching this fml

That feeling when you were only able to write a single line for your conclusion 😔💪

Oh no not me cramming 30 minutes before the test

exception testing tomorrow bc college board messed up again let’s goooo

So how'd it go friends? Thumbs up if you think you passed and a thumbs down if you think you biffed it like me.

im watching this 6 minutes before my essays start

Pls don’t let me fail, I’m testing in an hour😭😭

Y'all if I don't get a 5/5 on this essay, my teacher is giving me a D and I won't get to go to UCLA even though I already got accepted. Wish me luck I am so stressed out. Update: i got a 5/5! Ucla bound... barely lmfao

11 minutes, after this video ends, I start.

Guys, this video helped me out so much and I felt like I wrote a great essay for the test! Too bad I couldn’t submit it cause the submit button wouldn’t work!!! Anybody else have that issue?

Five minutes to go... Reaalllly wish there was a 5x speed option.

Test in an hour 😭

Goodluck to everyone studying an hour before the exam LMAOOOO

Hi.. Thanks for the great review. May i know where to locate the excerpt. thanks

You don't need three body paragraphs?

rest in peace henchard 😤😖

Can writing a 4 paragraph prose essay (like the one seen here) get you a high score of 4 or 5? The examples I’ve been seeing have been mostly 5 paragraphs.

Nigga I'm dead I haven't slept since yesterday and I'm anxious af I might skip it and take it in June

Have to get logged on for the exam in literally 20 minutes. Anyone else?

We got 11 minuets to watch this

Im not even in AP Lit but i think im going next year im scared af 😭😭😭😭

Also watched some last minute Susan and Carlos. Pray 4 me💁‍♀️

What is the structure of a prose essay? I cant find it anywhere. Does my essay need a conclusion? How many paragraphs do I need?

Watching 5 minutes before the exam?

Oh boy

Anyone else here cramming months before the exam because they fear failure more than death?

hol up so this whole test thing is tomorrow?

GG boys

Does it matter how much evidence is quoted? *Or is that wrong? I tend to quote two sentences or one and a half...then take the words out of that evidence to explain. like "Hi, my name is Georgia for the west...Greg always mistakes my name...My name is GEORGIA!" then I'll say she uses Repetition or symbolism for her name because she's fed up such as the emphasis on "Georgia" she keeps explaining to people who get it wrong by constantly repeating it...etc etc..

45 min before exam RIP

lgi fam

last minute gang

5 min before