I was surprised about the choices you gave us (China, India, Mesopotamia, and Egypt) because I was expecting a prompt with two societies already given since that is how most AP World compare and contrast prompts are like (which I found out through some Internet research). Because I had to choose two societies, I feel I wasted too many minutes trying to pick which societies I would write about. For the next essay, I plan to create a chart for each society and list similarities and differences. I believe I did well on the essay because I tried to hit all the points from the rubric. But it was not so easy because we were not told specifically how to structure compare and contrast essays. I was a bit unsure what to add to my introduction after my thesis and after I rephrased my thesis in the conclusion without sounding redundant.
I feel I did worse on the test than the essay. Or perhaps the few questions I know I got wrong linger in my mind too much. Much of the phrasing of questions or answer choices I noticed came verbatim from the textbook. However, I feel that if I had given the chapters a good thorough reading instead of skimming the night before, then I would have performed better. For both the essay and test, I felt that I spent copious amounts of study time although perhaps I may not have studied the correct way to approach them.
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