AP English Language and Composition Tutoring for Students in the UAE
AP English Language is three essays marked on the same rubric, and understanding that rubric is worth more than reading more widely.
- 2 examined components, weighted as shown below
- 9 syllabus areas mapped to your scheme of work
- Taught by a specialist in this subject, not a generalist
- 90-minute online lessons, scheduled in UAE time
How it is examined
The components, what each one is worth, and what it asks for. Planning revision without this in front of you is how students spend weeks on the part that carries the fewest marks.
| Component | Weight | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Section I: Multiple Choice | 45% | 45 questions in 1 hour — 23-25 reading questions and 20-22 writing questions. |
| Section II: Free Response | 55% | 3 essays in 2 hours 15 minutes (including a 15-minute reading period): synthesis, rhetorical analysis and argument. |
What the syllabus covers
Unit by unit, in the awarding body’s own terms so you can match it against your school’s scheme of work.
Rhetorical Analysis
Rhetorical situation: speaker, audience, purpose, context, exigence · Appeals: ethos, pathos, logos · Stylistic devices: diction, syntax, tone, figurative language
Argumentative Writing
Claim-evidence-warrant structure · Counter-argument, concession and refutation · Sophistication: nuance, complication, broader implications
Synthesis
Reading multiple sources for purpose and bias · Integrating sources to support an original argument · Citing in-text using the (Source A) convention
Where marks are actually lost
Each essay is scored in three rows: thesis, evidence and commentary, and sophistication. The thesis row is a single point that a large number of students simply do not collect, because their opening states a topic rather than a defensible claim. It is the cheapest point on the exam and the most frequently missed.
The evidence and commentary row rewards explaining how the evidence supports the claim, and this is where rhetorical analysis essays go wrong: a student identifies a device, names it correctly, and never says what it does for the writer’s purpose. Device-spotting is not analysis, and the rubric is explicit that it is not.
The date is not yours to move
AP exams sit in a fixed May window set by the College Board, so preparation has a hard deadline a private schedule cannot shift. If your school does not teach this course, you are buying a full year of teaching rather than top-up lessons, and starting in February is a materially different proposition from starting in September.
Frequently asked questions
The questions UAE students and parents ask us most often about this program.
Related programs
Other preparation tracks students often combine with this one.
AP Tutoring
Subject-by-subject Advanced Placement tutoring for students at American-curriculum schools across the UAE. Lessons target the exam as College Board actually marks it, not a general reading of the topic.
AP Pricing
AP is priced per subject, and the full-subject package is the lowest per-lesson rate on this site — because an AP is a year-long course, not a test technique.
How it works
Every student starts with a free consultation and ends with a plan that has a date on it. What happens in between depends on which exam you are sitting.
Tell us where English Language and Composition is going wrong
Send a recent piece of marked work or a test paper with the marks on it. That shows us more in five minutes than a description of the problem does in an hour.