<p>Do they release the prompts for the speaking portions of the test? I definitely did not have the same one as the posters above me. Marine Le Pen would have been entirely inappropriate in my topic, haha.</p>
<p>For the audio part, do you guys have your own audio sets to listen to? we had the audio broadcast in an auditorium and the sound quality was pretty bad.</p>
<p>The prompt was about cultural diversity, so Le Pen could have worked. You could have talked about how there are a lot of xenophobes in France comme Marine et son pere. </p>
<p>I talked for about 90 secs. How about you guys?</p>
<p>^I think he had a different version…and you’re supposed to speak for 2 minutes, not 1.5</p>
<p>Not exactly. It has to be within the 2 mins that they give you. </p>
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<p>Could we have been more general like the public opinion toward it in our region as opposed to a country like Cameroon? </p>
<p>Also, I thought it’s supposed to be better if you use the full 2 minutes to get both your points across. Granted, I was only able to get to about 75 seconds from my notes before filling it up with extranneous information.</p>
<p>Garfieldkiller, the instructions DID say the email and essay were each 25% of the part B score. I saw it and asked the whole class about it and they thought it was strange too and double checked - it’s there.</p>
<p>@Ammazz- I think that’s fine. My parents are actually from Cameroon. I talked about how our culture is a blend of french and African culture. </p>
<p>I was brief, clear and informative.</p>
<p>Anyone know when scoring samples are going to be out?</p>
<p>Anybody know if there’s a scoring difference for those who marked that they regularly hear or speak the language at home (something I actually marked in error :P)</p>
<p>@Ammazz- Nope. It doesn’t affect your score. They only use it for statistical studies</p>
<p>Ammazz, it DOES make a difference, but only a negligible one: the curve is determined only by nonnative speakers, for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>If that is the case, does that mean I am excluded from the curve along with the non-native speakers?</p>
<p>If you marked yourself as native, then you’re excluded from the curve…but you’ll be compared to the rest of the nonnatives…</p>
<p>@Garfield- Where are you getting this information from? That’s not what my french teacher told me. There aren’t two separate curves.
She happens to be on the AP board…</p>
<p>That’s just what I heard…I seriously doubt even 8% of nonnatives could get 5’s if native speakers counted in the curve…it would be even more pronounced with Chinese.</p>
<p>So… If I’m reading this right, only non-natives affect the curve, but the curve applies to all test takers?</p>
<p>Yeah…otherwise it would be unfair.</p>
<p>Hmm, anyone know when 2012 score distribution will be up?</p>
<p>Tomorrow the remaining score distributions will be up on twitter.</p>