@PsychicPanda2 In my class we’ve done a total of one project…so far we’ve done a lot of writing and speaking prompts, and we’ve done a few listening/reading (but I anticipate way more in the coming months). In general we do a lot of source-hunting for the AP French essential questions.
We’ve only written one essay and in our class it’s a mix of IB and AP kids so it’s really difficult to learn with so many different levels. For example, I’m in my 6th year, but there are students only in 4th year who don’t know things like the subjunctive or pronoun agreement so it has really been practically review from honors french last year. Are any of your teachers readers for the AP: test because I feel like my teacher has no idea what she’s doing and am hoping to get additional information on how to prepare. @Ngzk07 and @zenith99 .
@PsychicPanda2 Well, my teacher isn’t an official reader (yet, as she says :P) but literally all we do are assignments that are sections of the AP Exam – and imho she’s really good (I wish I could say that for all my AP teachers :/). Not sure what you’re looking for (like literal practice or information), but feel free to PM me (and I can forward your questions to her or something).
recently in my french class we had to write a composition about bullying and she ideally wanted it to be 5 paragraphs. i unfortunately wrote one paragraph and it was pretty pathetic. i honestly felt so bad because my french teacher is so nice but i really couldnt do anything about because what i think in english i can’t express in french. any help?
@SwordArtOnline I’m far from the greatest French student (e.g. way better at essays than speakings -.-’) but if you want to PM me a sample paragraph or essay or whatever, feel free to do so; I could try to point you in the right direction. But in general, you might need to build up your French vocabulary. In the beginning of the year we got four giant lists of useful idioms that you can use like in any essay, and for each unit/topic that we do we get a giant list of vocab (just had a vocab quiz the other day). Once you have a basic starting vocabulary, you need to use the words like as often as you can in your paragraphs/essays/speakings (and actually practice doing a lot of paragraphs/speakings/essays), and hopefully it’ll become more natural to use. Specifically for writing, you should start out being able to write a relatively well-written paragraph in 20 minutes (then decrease the time to 10 with practice) and then eventually start putting paragraphs together for an essay like the AP format. Though because I’m not remotely an expert in French, be sure to utilize your teacher’s abilities/resources—for every practice paragraph/essay you do be sure to go over with her. Hope I helped a little bit! 
for the vocabulary i am progressively building up my verb bank but i guess is not useful w/out any nouns.
thanks i will try to voluntarily write my own quick paragraphs.
Hello! The test is only a little ways away now and I’m starting to get really nervous about the speaking. I’m really good at writing, but I have trouble with the conversation especially. Any tips for the speaking part?
@HigherEdHopes I feel…my essays are solid, my speakings…depend on the day. I would look up a few French articles that cld apply to a majority of the themes/you can sorta apply to each theme/EQ, and corresponding articles/audios for the US, and hopefully each are fairly specific. That’ll hopefully give you some go-to exs (I haven’t yet taken the time to do that myself yet, but there are several kids in my class who do that…which seems to work).
@HigherEdHopes My teacher was advising us to learn French verbal static/expressions to say in place of “like”, “um”, etc. during conversation so it gives us time to think but also keeps us in a “French mindset” and sounds a little better than awkward pauses/“um”
So I’m a junior in AP French this year, and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for what I could do next year, because ideally I’d want to keep studying French so I won’t forget it
I’m honestly pretty nervous for this exam, I’m just hoping for a 4. I feel my speaking is very well, however, we’ve written nothing… all year other than doing extensive projects in which we had dictionary resources and other things availaible. Hopefully the exam is easy :P. Anyone know raw scores needed for a 3/4/ and 5 out of 150.
Anyone know the time breakdown for the multiple choice section? Especially Part B of Section 1? How much time do we have for each source? Also, is it really distracting to hear others speak during the conversation part? Are the listening portions played out loud or do we each individually have a device to play the recording?
@ivyrunnernyc I don’t remember what the time breakdowns were for your first 3 questions but as for your 4th question, I’ve practiced in the room where I’m personally taking my exam with my class, and if you’re focused on what you’re doing, no it’s not distracting since we’re very spread out (and apparently on the day of the exam our students will be separated into two groups and we’ll be alternating for the speaking parts so that it’s less crowded/noisy). For your last question, at least for my exam, we don’t get a special device to listen to, it’s played out loud. For the speakings though we get individual microphone things obviously.
@zenith99 Oh, I see… thanks! Do you know how much you have to get right to get a 5?
The AP pass calculator is based on the 2008 exam, which is before they redesigned the AP test. Does anyone have an idea of what the current/redesign curve is?
Anyone else doing 0 prep for this exam?? I only need a 4 for my college, so I think I should be fine.
I am doing light prep since it’s a language; you either know it or you don’t! But, I have a question.
For the speaking part, you cannot redo them, correct? It’s a one shot deal? Also, for the conversation, do you really have 2 minutes to write notes for it? I am planning on writing a mini script based off of the convo outline!
@blargenshmargen Hi! Do you know the answer to my question above by any chance? 
@aznboi4981
Sorry I’m responding so late, but yes it’s a one shot deal for all the speaking parts
As for the details (since our class did a lot of speaking prep), you have like 4 minutes to plan the cultural comparison, and like 2 minutes to plan for the simulated conversation.
If you focus and write down as much as possible during the 4 minutes of the cultural comparison, you can almost get everything written down so you can literally just read what you wrote without too much pressure
As for the simulated conversation, the 2 minutes won’t help as much because you won’t really know any of the questions until it begins