For the AP English Composition and Literature exam, I believe I did fairly well on both the multiple choice and the free response portion, though I personally felt like I did far better on the multiple choice section than the free response section.
Technically speaking, I'm not supposed to discuss the multiple choice portion of the exam even once the 2019 Free Response section has been released so I will avoid going into specific detail about the multiple choice portion but I found most of the passages fairly easy to understand, reading through the passages once or twice was typically sufficient for me to comprehend the passage which made answering the multiple choice questions fairly easy.
For the free response portion of the essay, I found the poetry and the open question essay far easier than the prose essay. The poetry essay I felt should particularly resonate with most people in my generation given the current dialogue about privacy concerns. In regards to the open question essay, I found that the George Orwell's novel, 1984, fit well with the prompt so I elected to use 1984 as my book for the prompt.
While I found both the poetry and the open question essays fairly easy to write, I found that I struggled to write a meaningful essay for the prose essay. The prose passage I had a harder time identifying with compared to the poetry and open question. This led me to conduct what I believe was a slightly more superficial analysis on the sisters, as well as occasionally straying from the prompt and focusing on the Lapham family as a whole instead of the two sisters Irene and Penelope specifically.
Certainly, I have to credit the ease that the essay writing came to me during the test in part due to the numerous essays I had to write for this class as a whole. The constant practicing of timed writing, in addition to being forced to write about a certain book for most of those essays, made it so when it came time to write my open question essay, the freedom to choose whichever book I felt was most applicable to the prompt made the open question essay very easy.
