<p>Eh… I’m not native. I thought I would do best at listening but I made a bunch of mistakes -_-… Speaking was pretty bad too, mostly because I knew nothing about the material.</p>
<p>Yeah, I totally agree. When I got to the speaking I quite literally just froze. When I got to the speech, I was just like “what the hell.” I pretty much had 20 second pauses between each sentence, with like 5-6 sentences overall. I failed the speaking so badly. And my FRs were about 200 words each too, but the content is more important than the length, so w/e. Plus, I think 200 words is supposed to be enough.</p>
<p>I spoke so softly, hopefully they’ll be able to hear it, otherwise it’d be a 0 on the speaking…</p>
<p>How the hell did you guys write 200 words in like 15 minutes? You must type ridicuously fast…</p>
<p>Apparently, there was some guy in our testing room who wrote 400-600 words for each one. I don’t think 200 words is all that much. I thought I was typing too slowly since I almost never type Chinese. (Plus, I use a different program for Chinese input)</p>
<p>Speaking of which, the program for Chinese input was super annoying. I had to go back and modify the stuff the computer entered like, a million times. And it would always delete something I wrote previously, etc. It sucks.</p>
<p>ugh…all of those uber uber native speakers screw the rest of us over ^.^ oh well…i’ve been doing some digging around and apparently the curve really isnt all that bad so everyone who thinks they failed (including me…btw…) theres still hope!! <em>crosses fingers</em>
after all they can’t expect the rest of us to be as crazily proficient as those people who literally just came to america 3 months ago. and yea…definitely did NOT like the oral part this year</p>
<p>what? 200 words in 15 minutes is fast? id say if youre using pinyin, normal pace should be about 20 a minute. bopomofo, not so much, i remember watching my friend struggle, and it looks really complicated lol.</p>
<p>but i can imagine the 5 rate starting to fall as more nonnatives take it. but when half the nonnatives get a 5 its obviously too easy.</p>
<p>I took the AP Chinese test yesterday. College Board has all the resources you’ll need!</p>
<p>It’s not really a test you can study for, but I do recommend learning some basic facts about various aspects of Chinese culture:</p>
<p>-Art (calligraphy, music, Peking opera)
-Manners (giving gifts, being modest)
-Symbolism (ex. what certain colors, such as red, white, and yellow, represent) </p>
<p>These are just some suggestions, but anyway, having little blobs of information you can regurgitate will REALLY help burn time for the presentation. </p>
<p>There is NO event planning section this year.</p>
<p>By the way, search up “AP Chinese speaking samples” on the College Board site. It’s a riot.</p>
<p>Ok, thank God I wasn’t the only one who thought the speaking part was…a disaster. I suppose there’s still hope to get a 5 then! Seriously, this is the one test I expected an easy 5 on. I sort of screwed up on the speaking part though, and the listening part was waaay too fast.</p>
<p>On the other hand, they gave waaaay too much time for the reading section–I had triple checked and everything in 15 minutes and had to just sit there for the remaining about 40 minutes, and the 10 minute break. I was the only one taking the test too, which felt just extremely weird. </p>
<p>Oh wells 
Now I’m off to study for APUSH~</p>
<p>^ HAHA same! everyone finished the reading section in the first 25 mins or so so we all just sat there…I doodled on my scratch paper :D</p>
<p>I thought the speaking part was fine…I was worried about feeling awkward and messing up since you basically talk to yourself, but it was actually fun haha and the questions were easier than I expected. I heard it’s better to ramble on and let the test cut you off than to finish before the time limit, so I none of my answers were actually completely finished…I hope that’s okay…the time they gave us seemed way shorter than I expected too. I thought I would have to speak forever when I first learned that we had to give a 2 min speech.</p>
<p>The reading part really was waayyy too long. I was the only non-native in the room (as in, I’ve never lived in China) so I was the last to finish, but I still had about 20 minutes to spare.</p>
<p>They really should chop some time off the reading and add it to the speaking section.</p>
<p>Why in the world would you take it twice if you got a 5 both times?</p>