<p>well, i actually didn’t think it was as hard as i thought it was going to be, but i do agree that the presentational speaking was BEAST. short and long listening and reading were all easy for the most part (except for the first mu</p>
<p>What do you mean about the next questions during the two minutes to answer the first ones, lord rafiki? Which part of the exam?</p>
<p>btw, was the airline woman professional or indifferent?</p>
<p>^ tsk, tsk, we’re not supposed to discuss specific questions. ;)</p>
<p>I didn’t pick either of those choices. But I will say, I thought that passage was kind of confusing.</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot, I also messed up when to press the record button on the presentation. After all the other instructions, the CD said something like, “You will now have two minutes to record your presentation,” and then there was what seemed like a really long pause. I thought that was my cue to start, so I hit record and started talking, and the girl behind me heard me and starting recording, too, but then the CD started talking again…oops. :(</p>
<p>I did the same thing, curiosa, so did pretty much everyone else at my school! They need to have shorter pauses!</p>
<p>About the fill-ins…</p>
<p>Was it known that there weren’t going to be fill-ins this year? My teacher spent like the entire year prepping us for them (yes, she’s an idiot in many ways).</p>
<p>we thought the CD was broken instead of thinking it was a long pause, so the counselor who was the proctor spent over 20 min rewinding it =/</p>
<p>Yes, we knew there wouldn’t be fill-ins, Millhouse.</p>
<p>the test was soooo hard…especially speaking part…
well i said barely few words on formal speakin portion…
not even sentences…i spoke only “words”
i didnt even get the prompt…
compara dos congresos …idioma espanol…
sth like that…damn… can anyone explain the prompt?..
and i hv an another questionn…
is there anyway to get a 4 even if u screwed up speakin part?..</p>
<p>Am I the ONLY one who failed the formal writing part? *** was the audio about? I heard three words and the rest was a blur.</p>
<p>This test sucked. really bad. ap spanish = ultimate fail.</p>
<p>agh, don’t skip that many! if you can eliminate even one potential answer choice you’re supposed to guess!</p>
<p>Ahhhhhhhhhhhh omg it was so easy. Good luck everyone!!!</p>
<p>camemil, you make me sad. i really wish i thought the test was easy. i took gov yesterday and i truly did think that that was a peace of cake. but then walking into spanish today made me want to hurl.</p>
<p>What’s the raw score you need on MC to get a 4?</p>
<p>depends on how well you do on free-response. but i’d estimate around 60% to get a 4, after the 1/3 deductions.</p>
<p>WELL…Im a native speaker who actually took the class:</p>
<ol>
<li>The reading was a joke…I got them all right for sure.</li>
<li>The writing was also a joke. Wrote three pages for presentational and 1.5 for informal.</li>
<li>Conversation was easy</li>
</ol>
<p>BUT…
BUT…
BUT…</p>
<p>The presentational speaking was HARD! I can’t imagine being a nonnative…
I ********ted the whole thing…i just read the source and the notes i took in different order LOL</p>
<p>Assuming you did really well on the free-response, is that estimate still about right?</p>
<p>umm…i guess none of you guys have any problems with the CD. The listening part at our school is completely a nightmare, the CD was broken, and the proctor changed three CDs and two CD players and they all did’t work that well. We can barely hear what’s being said and asked cuz it is spoken in broken lines. It SUCKS, I wonder what ETS gonna do with it, or we all got a curve on the listening portion…</p>
<p>well, my brain is incapable of understanding spoken spanish. so i’m going for… not negative points on the listening section.</p>
<p>reading, i did so so. i understood them at least ish. answered a lot more questions than in the listening section.</p>
<p>writing, i did wonderfully. but i doubt it will make up for the thousands of blank answers on the earlier portions of the test.</p>
<p>bombed the simulated conversation despite the fact that it wasn’t even hard. i just got too nervous. i can’t process a different language that quickly.</p>
<p>and, despite the fact that i ALWAYS did wonderfully on the oral presentation in class, i was completely thrown off by both of those sources and pretty much had no idea what they were talking about or what to compare and contrast. so who knows.</p>
<p>going for a 3. but i’ll be shocked.</p>