Essay questions are important, confusing, and can be completely random. Essays count as half of your grade on the AP exam, so you can't place all your trust in getting all the multiple choice questions right. Essay questions can be insanely easy, or insanely complicated. Essay questions can make or break your entire gopo exam. They're exremely important, and you should definetly do your best on them. (also every gets finished with the essays like an hour early so everyone's just sitting in the testing room staring at the wall. So its best to take a lot of time writing the essays.)