<p>Okay, now I'm kind of mad that everybody else got to take it without the disturbance in the background. I think that's a little, actually more than a little, unfair. You think it's hard to do it with a murmuring in the background? Try doing it with 5 other people talking at full volume into the tape recorders RIGHT NEXT TO YOU. Who do you think I should talk to? I'm thinking my dumbass guidance counselor? I mean I know they can't do anything about it now but I kinda want to vent...</p>
<p>Why does this censor pick out p.iss.ed but not ass?</p>
<p>We talked into our own tape recorders all at the same time in the testing room. It was really distracting but eh...what can you do. I'm just glad it's over.</p>
<p>It's distracting to have 5 people next to you talking? Yeah? Now imagine 30+ students all talking into their voice recorders at the same time, sitting right next to each other!! Sigh, my school.. </p>
<p>I am really annoyed that Barron's said you would be able to hear the conversation one time before having to talk. That would have been loads easier.</p>
<p>yea........... i'll be happy with a 3. the last listening thing, that lady spoke way too fast for me to understand a damn word.</p>
<p>reading comp was horrible, I think my speaking may have brought me up, save for the formal part, where I kept saying the same thing cause I ran out of crap to say.</p>
<p>Lol, did anyone else check the box saying that college board is not allowed to use my test for "instructional" purposes? In our spanish class, we've heard past AP test taker's speaking sections, and they usually have a really bad one that they distribute...I didn't want this years to be mine :) </p>
<p>Plus, it kinda feels good denying college board...ya know what I mean? lol..</p>
<p>Overall it went a lot better than I expected!</p>
<p>UGH Only thing that irked me is on the EASIEST section, which in my opinion is the informal writing I didn't have time to sign my name! Like the "Su amiga, ____" or whatever. I hope that won't ruin that section for me cuz the rest of the it was really good and that's kinda one of those sections you rely on, haha. Speaking, not that bad at all! Listening not bad. Reading was a little tough in my opinion and I thought the long essay question was kinda dumb. Like the essay it was kinda hard to think of support and stuff, but whatev. I'd be ecstatic if I got a 4, but even if I get a 3 I'll be content cuz that's what I need to get credit.</p>
<p>i thought the informal writing was reall easy (almost predictable?). i thought the presentational writing was easy (for someone who knows a lot of vocabulary/grammar but cannot speak well, essays = lifesavers) but it could have been easier like past years. :( also, we had 60+ students recording all at once in the testing room. anyone beat that? ;)</p>
<p>Our teacher is extremely disconnected with reality, and didn't know they revised the test, so she's been doing really heavy grammar prep and making us draw subjective conclusions from insane literature. (Lazarillo in ORIGINAL ARCHAIC SPANISH, IF I COULD UNDERSTAND IT MAYBE I COULD INTERPRET IT, SENORA.) Which wasn't on there at all. I'm good at Spanish, so I think I did pretty well, but people in my class were really upset we've been preparing for the wrong test all year.</p>
<p>Well, I'm a native speaker.. and the test was very slackk : )</p>
<p>The speaking part was a bit difficult with 30 people in one room, all recording at the same time.. The girl sitting next to me had actually gone to a Shakira concert about 3 months ago so she was like, "DIOS MIO!!" </p>
<p>And our teacher is probably 60+ years old, so he had no idea that the DBQ was going to be on there (and that the cartoon thing was eliminated) so that was a lovely surprise (not.)</p>
<p>All in all, it was straightt.. Out of the 90% of students that pass under my teacher, 75-80% get 5s so I'm not too preoccupied with the score</p>
<p>Well, the listening section was definitely hardest. Reading was fine, I only left like 3 blank there. But that damn malinche thing....that was absolutely ridiculous. i took notes the whole time and when i got to the questions i was like....what!? i was wondering about something. for the writing, i totally aced everything, but for the essay im not sure if i answered the question well enough. however i know the essay was really well-written. do they only look for writing ability, or ability to answer the question as well? same goes for the oral presentation. for the last 20 seconds or so i was just floundering, repeating myself and not saying much of anything because i had no idea how much time was left. listening and the oral pres. were my worst, but i think everything else was great. is this test out of 180 points as well? what's the curve like?</p>
<p>Okay, it's been 48 hours, and I have to ask this for my sanity...</p>
<p>Does anybody remember the first free response fill-in-the-blank, "with root words?" Were there any subjunctive verbs on there? Becuase I was kind of stressing out and I forgot to check. I hope not...but it seems kind of odd that there wouldn't be ANY subjunctive on there. They like to test that stuff.</p>
<p>I thought the oral presentation thing was pretty easy, because during the 5 minute "reading period" I basically wrote out my entire plan of what I wanted to say, and then for the 2 minute period after that I added the stuff we heard from the listening source. For the 2 minutes of actually speaking into the tape recorder I just read what I'd written down, and it fit almost perfectly into two minutes' time - piece o cake!</p>
<p>The conversational oral part was so-so . . . I think I was a little repetitive.</p>
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<p>I don't take AP Spanish, didn't take this test, and probably shouldn't be on this thread, but I clicked here randomly and was happy to see that someone else checks that box. I always do. Gives me a feeling of satisfaction! </p>
<p>nope, no subjunctive. i was so proud of myself in the root words part for putting "e" instead of "y" befor institucion. some of the natives in my class missed that, too. that section was so much easier than how i had been practicing all year. i aced that sucker.</p>
<p>We all took the whole test (including the speaking portion) together in the library. It was intimidating because my teacher's other classes were there as well, and it seemed like most of them are native speakers. For the speaking portion we just used cardboard dividers. They don't really help that much, but I felt that I had at least a tiny bit of privacy while recording.</p>
<p>Eh, I didn't do that well. I'm thinking I got a 2? Not sure how the curve is.</p>
<p>Wow, you got cardboard dividers? I'm jealous! The whole class took the thing in one big room. When it came to the speaking, all we could do was try and distance ourselves from each other.</p>