<p>I happen to be a spanish native speaker, and I'm learning french. This year I'm up to AP French Languague, I happened to have a free period and decided to take AP Spanish also. It turns out that both exams are COMPLETELY different, and my two teachers teach the classes completely different. What do you guys think about this? And do you guys think it's fair?</p>
<p>haha, I don't think very many people have experience with that, because most of us are only taking one language! :)</p>
<p>But I didn't know the exams were different. In what way?</p>
<p>in the speaking part: spanish you have two minutes to tell a story with the 5 pictures, then you are orally asked 5 random questions to which you have 20 seconds to respond.
french: you have one minute to tell a story with the five pictures, then you are asked to questions related to the five pictures, to which you have 1 minute each to respond. then there's another two pictures that you have to tell the differences/similarities between them, and then again you are asked two random questions, to which again you have one minute to respond to each.
french there is a section where words are ommitted and you have to use your knowlegde of french to figure out what the word is.
that section does not exist in the spanish one.
and a whole other bunch of differences, I guess the only similar thing would be the reading section...</p>
<p>Oh ok, thanks. I'm in French... and I'm so glad there are those grammar fill-in things! I love those. Do you actually have to think of the word, or is it multiple choice?</p>
<p>What's the reading section like? What do you have to do?</p>
<p>you actually have to think of the word your self. (BUt if you take the SAT II then it's multiple choice).
The reading section can be hard at times though. It's sort of like the SAT I reading comps. but in french.</p>
<p>anagarcia987-
That section was eliminated along with the Error Corrections (exactly the same as those in the SAT Writing section, only in Spanish) in 2003.
In addition the Spanish exam next year will feature an interactive conversation using a computer system instead of the drawing sequences.</p>
<p>anagarcia987, you are quite mistaken. In the writing section of the Spanish exam, in addition to writing an essay, you are given sentence fill-ins and clozes (which are what you described about the french test). These used to be multiple choice but that was too easy (and as kman pointed out they were eliminated) so they made you fill it in. It looks to me like the tests are much more similar than you think (other than the obvious disparities in the speaking section). In fact i just checked the collegeboard website and I see nothing different other than the facts that the weights of each section are different (in spanish it is 20% listening, 30% reading, 30% writing, 20% speaking whereas french is 25% each) and the speaking section is different</p>