<p>Anyone else on here take the new exam?</p>
<p>I felt like the MC wasn't too bad, save for the last two all-listening sections. Writing was relatively easy, conversation was okay, presentation was okay.</p>
<p>Hoping for a 5, natürlich, but we'll see. It probably will come down to MC Part 2 for me.</p>
<p>MC ist für mich ziemlich gut gelaufen…but I think I screwed up the writing and speaking part. I accidentally used the word “Gegenteil” instead of “Nachteil” once in the writing, and my writing section reads a bit weirdly because there was a technology issue where we didn’t hear Quellenmaterial 3 until about 20 minutes in, and we got a time extension so we could listen to it, but I was already well into the essay before I heard it, so it messed up the flow a bit. Conversation went fine, but I just didn’t talk long enough for the presentation. I don’t know how much weight they give to length - I would hope that they value quality over quantity, and my presentation was grammatically sound - but I definitely didn’t use the entire two minutes. Then again, I talk more quickly in German than I do in English, so I did get a decent amount of information in.</p>
<p>Are native speakers scored on the same curve as learners? I think that would be unfair if they are. It will be interesting to see how the score distribution works out for this new exam. It was really inconvenient that there were no sample essays or much prep material available. I might take it again next year if I don’t do well, since I’m a junior in my third year of German.</p>
<p>I know for some other languages (Spanish, at least) they make the curve excluding native speakers, then grade everyone on that curve. Not sure about Deutsch, but the curve seems pretty steep (only 1/3 of 5s are non-native). I’m guessing, though, that the curve will be a little easier this year due to the new format.</p>
<p>I wish they had put the listening part first; it’s more taxing than reading Deutsch, and it would have been better at the beginning when I felt more focused. Also, 20-second conversation responses are really awkward. I spoke fast for 8-12 seconds, then I started rambling when the silence became excessive.</p>
<p>I thought of the speaking section in terms of the writing section in that just like it’s all right to not write the longest essay and use every page provided as long as it’s of good quality. So I didn’t speak the full 20 seconds or 2 minutes, and I think that, generally speaking, that’s okay. It’s just that my speaking parts were short enough to make the silence afterwards daunting. But really, how much was I supposed to say in response to a comment about the guy’s parents thinking being a lifeguard was too dangerous, or whatever that one part was?</p>
<p>Do you guys think there is going to be a generous curve this year? Because yea, they did not provide enough resources this year for the new test, and we were not 100% sure about how everything was going to work… What do you guys consider a 3 in terms of the test?</p>
<p>So… the College Board has released this year’s FRQ, but it looks NOTHING like the test I took… for us, the writing topics were about a photo contest (email) and how to counteract boredom (essay), and the speaking topics were music (“conversation”) and food (presentation).</p>
<p>So, did the College Board put the wrong FRQ up on its site, or did my school receive a different form of the test? We took the test Friday, May 11… <em>is very confused</em></p>
<p>In your opinion, is 32/65, and 60% of the FR at least a 3?</p>
<p>@Yossaria
My school had the ones on the website. They must’ve given your school another form. That’s very confusing. That’s just College Board doing bizarre things with a new form and being unclear…once again…</p>
<p>@wtp4life
It’s impossible to say because the new form of the exam has never been curved before. I feel like I did well on the MC and meh on the free responses, but I have no idea what my score will be. That sounds reasonable, as long as they’re curving to the non-native speakers. If they curve to the native speakers, we’re all screwed.</p>
<p>Right, my teacher talked to the College Board, and he said there were multiple versions of the test this year for standardization purposes. So hopefully there will be a lenient curve all-around…I’ll need it, since I bombed the speaking portion.</p>
<p>GUYS, THE AP GERMAN EXAM SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS ARE IN FOR 2012! THEY GRADED IT BASED ON NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS!!! =]
12.2% earned a 5!
24.6% earned a 4!
33.2% earned a 3!
20.1% earned a 2!
9.9% earned a 1!</p>
<p>Guys, I am like so nervous, because I felt good AND bad about how I did, so I am p r a y i n g that I did well enough for AT LEAST a 3. 
Good Luck to you guys, I hope you guys feel great about your scores! ^_^</p>
<p>I got a 4. I’m surprised, to say the least.</p>
<p>Hi, I didn’t take the German exam this past year, but I’m curious about it. I know it’s a new format which really scares me, especially because my Deutsch Leherin refuses to teach the AP class (only one for the school). There are two of us who want to take the exam next year, so do you think if the two of us worked together and MAYBE got help from unseren Leherin (because she doesn’t want to help us study either) we could manage a three. Our school will lend us the text books, the teacher just won’t teach the class, so we’re stuck taking honours instead, and it’s WAY below the AP level (like regular with more weight on tests)</p>
<p>2012 AP German TOTAL GROUP results: 32.3%=5; 23.5%=4; 24.3%=3; 13.4%=2; 6.5%=1
(not just the non-native speakers)</p>
<p>I got a 5. 
I wonder how harsh the curve was. It seems like the exam has gotten easier; it used to be that only about 8% of non-native speakers got a 5, and now it’s up to 12.5%.</p>
<p>Also, cty4ever, I’d go for it. That’s what I did. I took the test while I was in German III honors, which is nowhere near the AP level. Two others took the test, and we would go outside the classroom to prepare in the weeks leading up to the test (although we didn’t really get anything done). I don’t know what one of them got, and the other got a 2, but I think that was because she went into the test and the prep with a defeatist attitude (her parents were forcing her to take the test).</p>