<p>do colleges see ap scores when you apply? because i don’t want a potential college to see how badly i did on this spanish exam…</p>
<p>First reading section was horrible.</p>
<p>I certainly hope youre right, terencec…</p>
<p>Okay, here’s my rundown on the Spanish exam.
I was kind of nervous at first, so I botched the very first listening passage (like, number 1 lol).
But I got less nervous and I think I did okay.
Overall, the short passage listening questions (the ones where they read you the question rather than give it to you) were fairly hard, while the long ones were easy.</p>
<p>The reading I ACTUALLY understood, which was an amazing feeling. The first reading passage took the longest by far, but it was really satisfying to understand it. Definitely a slightly creepy story though…
The rest of the reading went well for me, except for one or two tone questions.</p>
<p>The informal writing was really easy to do, and the formal writing wasn’t bad, the sources didn’t give that much information though.</p>
<p>The informal speaking wasn’t bad at all, but I agree about the presentational speaking: it was hard. I misconjugated one verb and tried to use one verb “enorgullecer” but said “orgullecer” once instead and said “enorgullecer” later correctly. And I don’t think I said any similarities, just differences haha.</p>
<p>But the curve is probably going to suck since a lot of native speakers take the test.
Sorry for that long post, but I felt like talking about it.</p>
<p>Btw: I finished the exam after SEVEN HOURS because they made me wait three entire hours to do the speaking parts because my school is dumb.</p>
<p>lol i think i got a 2 or 3…gahhh…it was so hard
i misread the reading comprehension…
and didnt know what any of the listening was about…
and the speaking killed me…
and i misunderstood fuente 3 of the long essay…</p>
<p>ay, que puta fue.</p>
<p>puta, puta, puta…</p>
<p>I too had no idea what fuente 3 was talking about, and just made one tiny reference to it at the end of my essay. Also, on the informal writing, mine didn’t even go on to the next page! I was stunned to see that there were like two more pages for that one 10 minute assignment. I also ran out of time on the reading, which I attribute mainly to that first passage, which completely lost me near the end. Rest of the reading and listening were fine, but for speaking I found myself making long, awkward pauses trying to think of the right word to say, and I got cut off at the end of my presentational speaking.</p>
<p>So there is my personal experience in case there’s actually someone who cares. Also, for the question of how the multiple choice is scored I would’ve thought exactly what TerrenceC said, that low 70s is a five. Obviously I don’t know, what you said zeldonian seems a little too harsh to me.</p>
<p>i already forgot what the first reading comp passage was. and the audio sources for the presentation and the formal essay were definitely confusing. my small miniscule writing only required my essay length to barely exceed a page on my formal essay…</p>
<p>i really hope i can get at least a 3. =/ i skipped about 8, and i’m hoping i didn’t miss TOO MUCH.</p>
<p>Overall it was a lot harder than I expected, and the four of us at my school that took it (my school doesn’t actually have AP Spanish, only an honors level four class) were mad that they got rid of the fill in the blank part. Most of it was too bad, but I found the speaking part to be really awkward, and I wish I would have had a timer to look at so I knew how long I had to speak… I ran out of things to say in the presentational speaking, so there’s a long, awkward pause on my tape. Then I came up with something else to add, and it cut me off in the middle of the sentence, argh. The first reading was also somewhat confusing, and fuente 3 of the presentational writing part toooootally lost me. Me perdi</p>
<p>did anyone accidentally write their formal essay on the 2nd and 3rd pages of the interpersonal writing section…i did that and i feel horrible. on the next page (the first page of the formal writing blank area) i wrote “Written on two previous pages”
my interpersonal thing was so short it all fit on the first page…
man i’m so worried about that, the rest of the test went pretty well for me but that was such a boneheaded mistake, it can’t possibly cost me the entire 20% of my grade on that section, can it?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure they would just realize that they would just start reading from where you started. It’s not like they’re trying to make you fail (I hope).</p>
<p>i SKIPPED 11 questions! blahhh… botched up the reading comp, listening comp, presentation speaking, and informal speaking. i’m just hoping that my essays can pull be through but i doubt it</p>
<p>i just found the article that they used for the presentational speaking portion on the web. i really want to post it.</p>
<p>I’m sure you’re okay, schnide, they’re not out to get you.</p>
<p>It was harder than I expected. I ran out of time on the reading comp, and that’s my strongest point. The reading passages were more difficult than others I have done for practice. The listening was hard; there was one section that I left entirely blank (5 questions) :(. The short written FRQ was easy, but now I’m obsessing over potential grammar mistakes I think I may have made. The long written FRQ was difficult. I felt like I was repeating myself a lot. Plus, the directions said to avoid just summarizing the individual sources, but it’s hard to be analytical about those types of sources because basically, to answer the prompt, you HAD to pull a bunch of facts from them.</p>
<p>I’m really worried I messed up on the multiple choice long narratives. You know, the ones where you get 2 minutes to read the questions before listening to the audio? Well, I took the two minutes, but then I also circled the answers as the audio was playing, which I thought was allowed. But then, the CD said (in Spanish, of course), “Turn the page and start answering the questions,” or something along those lines. Were we not supposed to be reading the questions WHILE the recording was talking? I feel really guilty now. :(</p>
<p>the way my teacher prepared us, she just had us start answering questions while the tape ran and not to worry about the “you have 2 minutes to answer the questions” thing. as long as you’re confident you did a good job answering them, you’re ok. i mean after all, they gave you 2 minutes BEFORE the passage began to read the questions too, right?</p>
<p>don’t worry siempre curiosa, i did that too and so did a bunch of people at my testing center. i was scribbling like crazy the english translations to all the questions. my aptitude of spanish isn’t high enough so that i am thinking in it, for me its all a process of translation.</p>
<p>Yes, we got the 2 minutes before the passage to read the questions. I was just worried that I was at an unfair advantage because I took more time than I should have to look at the questions, plus it was easier listening to the audio and following along with the questions at the same time.</p>
<p>But I feel better now that apparently everyone else was taught to do the same. 
Thanks guys. :)</p>
<p>I felt like I didn’t have enough time to get out all that I wanted to say about the 2nd part of the presentational speaking, do you think I will be penalized heavily or at all if I filled up the 2 minutes with coherent speaking but didn’t necessarily completely analyze the second part of the question by not analyzing the second source very much?</p>
<p>Yea, I also answered the questions while the audio was playing, which I’m nearly positive is allowed. Something I was a little unsure of, however, was whether I could start reading the next questions during the two minutes given to answering the first ones. Also, my essay definitely was just a complete summary of the articles. What’s worse was that for the good first portion of it, I used everything in my essay in the same order that appeared in the sources. Also I didn’t understand anything from the 3rd source, but oh well.</p>