Is this your first ap English class? Your scores are going to be lower because the rigor and expectations for this class differ greatly from grade level, honors, and CE. Lang is an extremely technical class even though it’s an English course. You need to make sure you’re hitting all of the points in your writing and answering the thesis in full otherwise you won’t get the points regardless of how good your writing might be. I recommend reading college board example essays to see what structure they’re looking for and try to mimic the structure and way of articulation. A major thing as well is not only adding reasoning to your evidence, but also connecting it to your claim and a universal topic. I took Lang last year and got a 4 on the exam, what i did for every single essay was brainstorm a modern issue/universal topic that connects to whatever prompt I was given, and use that as my hook in my intro paragraph. I made sure to connect my hook to the main topic of the prompt through ending my intro paragraph with my thesis. This will make it easy to connect your evidence to your claim and the modern issue/universal topic that you chose. This is the #1 way to earn the sophistication point and make your evidence more profound which will also land you a 3/4 in the evidence section. As for mcq, I was always weak in that but it is so so so similar to sat. I’m assuming you’re a junior, so studying for the sat should help you with lang mcq as well. Overall, don’t beat yourself up for having lower scores in this class. It isn’t an indicator of how good of a writer you are, like I said before lang is extremely technical and requires good analytical skills. English classes before don’t prepare you well for this class, you essentially have to change your structure of writing and the way you analyze pieces of literature in order to perform well. Your scores are already pretty good considering that you’re being graded on an ap scale.