<p>Hey guys! The AP Chinese exam was this Wednesday, and College Board released the FRQs today: <a href="http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap14_frq_chinese_language.pdf">http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap14_frq_chinese_language.pdf</a></p>
<p>I'm kind of worried about the cultural presentation. It said to talk about a Chinese language movie...and I talked about Kung Fu Panda. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING. I talked about what I thought was culturally significant (Kung fu requires a lot of hard work, the importance of togetherness, the importance of food, the importance of family), but still: it's not a Chinese language movie, so technically, I didn't answer the prompt, thus failing on the task completion portion of the rubric. I talked to my teacher, who's an AP grader, and she says that I didn't answer the prompt, and I'm looking at a 2 or a 3, depending on how nice the grader is.</p>
<p>What did you guys talk about? Further, is the cultural presentation more about how impressive your cultural knowledge is, or is it just an avenue for the scorers to see if you can actually speak Chinese? </p>
<p>Thanks so much, guys! </p>
<p>I think your teacher is being generous. A 1-2 for the section is more likely. The spoken audio prompt, in English, twice stated Chinese-language movie, and cited examples of such. Since you did not answer the question, you’ll get a couple of points for speaking in Chinese, but that’s about it.</p>
<p>On the plus side, it is only one portion of the test, so if you did well on the other parts, you can still get a good score.</p>
<p>Yeah, I see what you mean. Thanks so much for your time!! One more thing: on the writing section, I wrote a really detailed email but unfortunately did not have time to check for typing errors…how will that affect my score for the email response? </p>
<p>Yeah I’m pretty sure I got no points in that section. It is not really a consolation, but I am probably getting a 1 on the test. Lol. A lot of my class talked about Mulan and Kung Fu Panda. At least the reading and writing sections were easy. You could probably make up for the cultural presentation with the other parts of the test.</p>
<p>I don’t think that not double-checking typing would drastically affect your score, unless the sentence were rendered incomprehensible. Good luck. </p>
<p>@dextrous! I have a friend who talked about Mulan, so we’re definitely not alone. What sucks is that our teacher played 孔子 (Confucius) the week before the test, and I don’t even know what possessed me to talk about Kung Fu Panda. I have another friend who talked about 三国演义 and Qin Shi Huang. Thankfully, my teacher told me that the test is curved, so if a bunch of people bombed the cultural presentation by talking about Mulan and Kung Fu Panda, then they’ll go easy on us.
The rest of the test was easy (I was pleasantly surprised by reading!), but I thought it was a pretty difficult cultural presentation topic. There’s a lot of things that you can memorize (famous people, the four great inventions, Chinese literature, landmarks, etc.), and this wasn’t one of them. You had to have actually watched a Chinese language movie to answer the prompt, and it was actually really smart for College Board to test it because it’s pretty easy to memorize information, but it’s much harder to understand and watch a movie.
@skieurope: Okay, thanks again for all your help! I hope they’ll be able to figure it out. </p>
<p>I know this thread is pretty old, but for the cultural presentation I talked about a movie I made up about a boy who lived in China and didn’t realize his blessings until he learned about conditions in other parts of the world. My score was delayed for a couple of weeks until I received it today, and it was a 4 instead of the 5 I expected. The message on the website now says “score drawn from multiple choice and free response sections,” or something like that. Do you think my making up the movie cause the delay? As a native Chinese speaker, I considered the presentation pretty good, so could this section have caused my score to decrease?</p>
<p>Count your lucky stars if the cultural portion were lost. It means that part of your exam was lost and your score was extrapolated from the remaining parts. If the cultural presentation was part of the test that was able to be scored, yes this could have caused the decrease, since you were asked to reference an actual movie, not make one up.</p>