Well, I was surprised about the lack of questions about Old and Middle English texts -- including
The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte D'Arthur, etc. I expected more questions about these works! Maybe there will be more on the December exam, who knows??
There were more questions about theory and theorists than I expected. Several questions were either about Jacques Derrida or had him in the answer choices, so I'd brush up on him. There was a question about Edward Said and Orientalism. There were also a few questions about some "mirror" theory, that I had never heard of! I think it would be wise to look over the contemporary theories and theorists. I was rusty on them.
Hmmm...there was a series of questions regarding James Baldwin and his criticism of Richard Wright's
Native Son, which the Princeton Review book helped me remember and get right on the test. There was also Allen Ginsburg's
Howl, which was fun to read. There was a LOT of John Donne on the test, I think.
Does that help? There were, of course, things on the exam that I didn't recognize! I am terrible with questions about Shakespeare or the Bible....and there were those questions, which I am pretty sure I left blank. Heh.
Let me know if I can help more! The pattern of the questions was what I expected, based on the available practice exams. Some of the passages were long, but they had 6-7 questions after them, which made it usually worth reading the passage and stabbing at those questions....Beware of the long, unrecognizable passages that have only a few questions after them - those are good to skip and go back to at the end.
Hope this helps!! Best of luck to all.