AP English Language

Categories: IB

About Course

The AP English Language and Composition is an introductory composition course set up by the College Board. This college-level course helps students in cultivating their understanding of writing and creating rhetorical arguments through a process of reading, analyzing, and writing of texts while exploring topics like rhetorical situations, claims, and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style.

The AP English program has two courses – a. Language and b. Literature

The Language course is designed to provide high school students with a typical introductory-level college English curriculum, and it focuses on evidence-based analytic and argumentative writing, along with the rhetorical analysis of non-fiction texts.

Mastery of core curriculum topics
Learn to read, understand, and analyse a variety of texts
Identify how writers use various devices to achieve their effects
Assess and analyze rhetorical situations
Learn the skills of reasoning and organization
Identify, study and explain claims and evidence within an argument
Explain how and strategically use words, comparisons, and syntax that convey a specific tone and style to a text
Exam techniques practiced through extensive question practice and personalised feedback
Lifelong subject and interdisciplinary skills

Course Content

Multiple Choice Questions

60 Minutes, 45 Questions
5 Passages
23-25 Reading Questions
20-22 Writing Questions
45% of Exam Score