<p>christ, the test was sooo long. felt like double the AP gov test. i felt so prepared due to my spanish class. how did everyone else do? my test went from 8 to 1 (we had two seperate groups needing to record in the lab...made my group wait for half an hour..but still 4 and 1/2 hours is crazy) so glad im done...hoping for a 5 but i know im on the border of 4 to 5.</p>
<p>o i forgot...SHAKIRA SHAKIRA!</p>
<p>hahaha my informal speaking is funny for that one. Overall I think I did eh. Listening I was zoning out for and formal speaking I felt like i was just rambling and repeating myself. Reading and Writing wasn't that bad.</p>
<p>Ours took 5 hours.. bloody hell thats a long one. I think/hope I got a 4. My canned opening served me well on that one.. my formal speaking was very boring, obvious, and repetitive though.</p>
<p>It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I'm hoping for a 5, but expecting a 4... :) Ours took five hours too.</p>
<p>We were done by 11:40ish. I thought reading comprehension was relatively easy, but my speaking probably brought me down.</p>
<p>haha, in my class noone even tried to do it. People were mimicking Mike Tyson into the recorders and stuff.</p>
<p>Ours took more than six hours. Yikes.</p>
<p>I think I did pretty well though - but yeah, I was definitely repeating myself and sort of rambling on the speaking portion. Oh well.</p>
<p>...Cuanto? XDDDD</p>
<p>We ended at about 12:30. Two words: native speakers. Ummm, yeah, overall, I'm just glad it's over and done with. I was so glad the speaking didn't have an interview. I hate ud. form. Whew, it was sooooo long.</p>
<p>The harder exams are always curved the most . . . I'd say the language exams are some of the hardest. Last year almost 1/4 of the non-native speakers who took Spanish AP got 5's, so hopefully the curve is pretty nice. Espcially since some portions of the test were new this year.</p>
<p>I did pretty bad on the listening and answering questions section. And the reading and MC part was a bloodbath. And I don't even want to discuss the oral speaking part.. :|</p>
<p>It was bad. I think I got more on either of the single parts in Stats than I got on the Spanish as a whole. I think I probably got a 1 or a 2... on the upside, I'm fairly certain I got a 5 on the Stats! ;)</p>
<p>I think I did alright, btw I loved the music that went with some of the listening sections...</p>
<p>Oh and one more thing, a girl in our class passed out in the middle of the reading comprehension, that was quite the scene. She looked up with a concerned look on her face, stood up, wobbled around, and then just passed out right in the doorway.</p>
<p>did neone know about the new format ahead of time? i honestly didn't have an idea..</p>
<p>We went from 7:30 to 1:10. That was one beast of a test. We had to do it out of order, starting at number 35 on reading comp, because of rotating 3 groups around the lab. I had to do the long essay last :( </p>
<p>Thought that two of reading comp passages were hard, rest werent, the last listening was hard, I didn't know if guessing penalty applied to all mc or not speaking, so I probably screwed myself over.</p>
<p>Why did they have differnt dialects/accents on the listening, my teacher is colombian and hates castillian spanish, he was appalled that it was on it.</p>
<p>I thought that the root word and sentence completion was so easy. The prep we did in class I got like 2/8 on, I think I aced these.</p>
<p>Any idea about a curve? I'm aiming for a 4.</p>
<p>Our spanish class used the "Prentice Hall AP Spanish: Preparing for the Language Examination" (Third Edition), which was based on the new format so we did the same style that was on the test all year....but I suck at spanish, so it didn't make a big difference for me. I lose focus on those oral outlines from time to time so I have to end up making up stuff. I just want a 3 on this :/</p>
<p>Stat was pretty easy though! I was at the AP testing place from 8 to 4...which sucked a big one.</p>
<p>listening was easier than I expected, so was reading. writing was meh... speaking was the worst thing imaginable. my whole class cracked up at "Shakira" though... the test lasted from 8-1 then I had stats from 1-6, not a good day... :|</p>
<p>I didn't think it was terrible. We used the prentice hall textbook too. </p>
<p>Our AP class has native speakers in it, so we hear all sorts of accents. We've also practiced with recordings that have castillian spanish speakers on them. It's not that bad, once you get used to it.</p>
<p>The test was going perfectly. Then my proctor was stupid enough to interrupt me in the middle of the telephone conversation to give me some directions and i couldn't hear what the guy said after the shakira concert part and i basically had no idea what to say from that point onward in the conversation. i'm ****ed like no other at that woman.</p>
<p>oh and then i went about 7-10 seconds overtime on the formal presentation. my proctor was threatening me that collegeboard would disqualify me for that. they wouldn't do that, would they? i mean, worse comes to worst, they'd just ignore the last 7-10 seconds, right?</p>