I truly prefer scoring AP Lang essays at home. This year I am on Lang Question 3--the argument. THANK GOD. The last four years I was on Question 2 and the monotony of the rhetorical analysis over the same speech or section of a memoir? Brutal. I actually contacted the College Board this year requesting Q1 or Q3. My husband said, "All you had to do is ask." I'm not sure--it would seem unlikely that they even read my request and even more unlikely that they'd care. Nevertheless, a win for me as each argument has at least some freshness. There are some similar sports examples (of course), but even then, the angle is always slightly varied. Every at bat holds the opportunity for a triple; the home run is tricky due to the ambiguity and difficulty of acquiring that elusive sophistication point, but I certainly award it on occasion as they slide into home! (Sports analogy)
My son is reading for the first time--AP Calc exams!--in Thailand. The time frame for group meetings and when the scoring window was open were both issues at first, no surprise. However, it's fun to get texts from him about how it's going. Sounds like scores on math tests are a little more "right or wrong" than AP Lang, especially a Lang argument essay. I think I prefer this. However, he has navigated Bangkok for the last four years, so he can pull off anything, I think. My first AP reading occurred at about the same age--I was twenty-eight. Below is the link to that. I did a lil' too much drinking on the river walk, and I think it affected my performance in regards to fatigue during the eight-hour work days. Also, I was on Q3 for Lit and had certainly not read all the books on the list. I told Max that the first year of reading is the toughest for sure, but he seems to be doing well! (He's much smarter than I am.)
I haven't even considered on-site reading since I started five years ago for Lang. I like that I can take breaks as needed--you just log out and can come back fresh in an hour. My reclining love seat beats a chair, and no one is judging me if I have to get up and go to the bathroom every hour or eat a bag of Bit-0-Honey in forty-five minutes. Nutshell, my two pieces of advice--if you're reading on site, consider at-home scoring next year, and if you are a first-year reader, go easy on yourself!
To all of you currently participating in this academic game, good luck and good job! I should get back to it--I do log out when I'm taking a break like this. Sometimes I worry that some think at-home readers are slackers or dishonest. Not true! But we are probably more comfortable. We can also do it from Iowa or Southeast Asia. Did I mention I'm proud of him, and glad he's not the type of reader I was thirty-plus years ago?
https://tracetheelateacher.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-less-than-stellar-entry-to-ap-reading.html
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