<p>There doesn't seem to be many AP Frenchers in here but in any event, what did you guys think of it?</p>
<p>Listening comprehension turned out to be fairly easy. I was only unsure of 2-3 questions on the long dialogues and maybe 1 on the short exchanges so all in all i'm pretty happy about that section.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I felt that the reading passages were EXTREMELY difficult compared to the released exams.... Maybe it's because they allow guessing now? But in all honesty, I was working to the very last minute on those reading passages because they were so dense and full of words I had never encountered before. On the practice ones I did i usually finished 10-15 minutes before time was called since the actual passages themselves were a fairly decent difficulty but nothing extreme. The readings today, personally, I thought were really, really tough.</p>
<p>Fill ins - these went pretty well! I felt sure on all of my answers so hopefully I get em right.
Essay topic- Not my cup of tea, at all.. The question seemed to deal with a rather simple topic, but I wasn't at all interested and so I ended up making up some personal story and filling up two pages, but I felt like I was repeating myself for a lot of the time.</p>
<p>Speaking - pretty normal, nothing too extreme, so I ended up being able to fill in pretty much all of the time with some kind of speaking</p>
<p>I quite liked the reading actually. agreed with the speaking, some was just like " i have no idea" but the majority was quite good. </p>
<p>I don’t know for fillins though I have always struggled with grammar so…
My essay was 1.5 pages with small handwriting, but you are right not too difficult of a subject. </p>
<p>where i was really expecting to do well and found oddly nervewracking and difficult was the speaking. I kept making dumb mistakes like il plaisir la femme" instead of "il fait plaisir a la femme. </p>
<p>je ne sais pas. j’espere que je recoive un 4.</p>
<p>I think it was okay. I was confused on some of the fill ins, but I think the rest was pretty good. I hate the passages but somehow I was able to get (I think) most of the answers.</p>
<p>I’m surprised there are so few AP Frenchers here.</p>
<p>Listening: easy.
Reading: impossible. this is what describes me trying to do it: Read a paragraph top to bottom. Realize that I didn’t understand any of it. Start over. Fail again. Get less than 50% on reading section. lolz.
Fill-ins and verbs: moderate.
Essay: great prompt, thank god for playing sports.
Speaking: very simple.</p>
<p>Listening: Moderate difficulty. The dialogues were much easier for me than the individual sentences (like #1-22 I believe it was)</p>
<p>Reading: Moderate. I read the passages, didn’t understand them, and then read them again. I eventually just skimmed the passage, read the questions, and then went and answered them. It was easier since they were almost perfectly in chronological order. I felt 95% confident with all my answers</p>
<p>Fillins/Verbs: Easy. I am worried, however, that one of my sections (not allowed to say which yet I don’ think) had too many present tense verbs.</p>
<p>Essay: Decent prompt. I think I made a lot of carless mistakes, but I was writing up until the very last second. </p>
<p>Speaking: My recorder was broken so they had to find a way to fix it. This increased my nervousness, so I was almost shaking by the time it was my turn. I managed ~45-50 seconds for all of them, so I hope it was adequate. </p>
<p>You’d have to calculate the percentages of correct answers manually but among those 68-80 or higher for the MC raw score, 92.3% got 5’s in 2008, and 21.2% of those who scored 56-68 on the MC raw score got 5’s. </p>
<p>For 2003, among the 68-80 or higher scorers, 89.4% got 5’s, among the 56-67 group, 19.7% got 5’s.</p>
<p>Lieutenant? I just went back and looked at the discussion thread for last year’s AP French exam (which I took), and it turns out there was a really hard passage about a lieutenant and 2 women (one whose name starts with a G). Is that the one you guys got?</p>
<p>Only 11.5% of total test takers got 5’s, ~2500 out of ~21 000</p>
<p>Of the Standard Group ( I guess this is basically non-native spakers), only 5.9% got fives last year, or 950 people. Ahh, I went on to check out the German and Spanish curves for last year. Those were at 9.2% and 12.5% for those non-native speakers. So is it so far of a stretch to say French is the most difficult of the major language exams?</p>
<p>Hey guys… I thought the whole test went well… except one thing. </p>
<p>MY RECORDING. </p>
<p>Okay, well, everything went fine… except in my testing room there were only two power outlets. So, I was on one side of the room, and the CD was on the other side of the room. I could hear the CD, & my voice recorded well on the tape… BUT, when I played it back, I realized I could ONLY hear myself and not the CD/beeps of the CD player. Is this a big problem?? I followed the tape and all the beeps… but, i didn’t realize until well… now that this might have been an issue. I mean, the instructions only say that it is important that YOU can be heard by the tape.</p>
<p>UGGGHHH… i feel really stupid now. OF course, I practiced recording DOZENS of times… but I never practiced with the actual CD!!! :'(</p>
<p>I hope my scores don’t reflect this… because I really thought my responses were well delivered. Cela me fait tellement de la peine, tu vois :/</p>
<p>Je n’veux pas m’incriminer mais il y’a bien une raison pour laquelle le CB proclame qu’on ne peut pas partager les informations au sujet des questions </p>
<p>Oh thank goodness!! hahah, for some reason, I got REALLY concerned looking back and realizing that I couldn’t hear the CD at all in playback… whew. merci et jespere que t’as bien reussi!!</p>
<p>@Wharton
Woah that teacher sounds like a nightmare for an AP class… Reading that makes me want to go hug my french teacher for preparing me and actually trying to help us. Sorry for your experience man. You could consider maybe doing like a dual enroll at a community college or something to keep your french fresh if you decide to try to take it again next year.</p>
<p>I’m in French 6 (Honors level, teacher isn’t AP certified). Also, how stringent are they with the ‘must be two pages to get over a 5’ rule? Because I was pretty close (5 lines from bottom of 2nd page), I write rather small, and I had a lot of varied grammar and verb tenses. Overall I think I did rather well (I managed to include ‘vouloir c’est pouvoir,’ ‘en train de,’ and I think I did a pretty good job at remembering the a and de before certain verbs)</p>
You could consider maybe doing like a dual enroll at a community college or something to keep your french fresh if you decide to try to take it again next year.</p>