<p>Hey guys!</p>
<p>I haven't actually got my scores in yet, just really want to see how you all did!!!
I'm hoping to get a really good group discussion going here; so please try to contribute as much information as possible! </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Taking this course next year…Asian (Non-native speaker). Any advice?</p>
<p>I haven’t yet received my score either, despite desperately dialing the digits every thirty minutes. :(</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t see what people find so hard about it. The exam was easy, and I did virtually nothing in Spanish all year, in addition to not taking the language the year before.</p>
<p>The essay? Bunz.
The conversation? Too easy for words.
The spoken presentation? You’ve got to be kidding me.
The multiple choice? I knew the answers without listening to the recording. (I had covered the subjects in brief before and already had a background on them)</p>
<p>All in all, it was not a difficult exam. Probably the easiest out of all 6 I took this year.</p>
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<p>Your ethnicity is irrelevant - I am not of Hispanic descent either. Being a non-native speaker, as I am, might mean that you have to practice your conjugations and accent while speaking more often, but that’s about it.</p>
<p>I watched a lot of sordid Spanish movies, and that helped out a lot. Perhaps you should do so as well.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I find it ironic that my high school’s Spanish IV class is probably going to be 2-3 people and have no Hispanics. <didn’t mean to be racist. And hey did you use a prep book? If so which one was most helpful?</p>
<p>coming from a native speaker, the test was actually the easiest one I have taken so far. I got a 5. For those who are not native I’ll give you some hints. </p>
<p>For the writing part (essay) make sure you spell out the words correctly, but when it comes about accents on the letters do not worry, AP graders will not worry about that.
The AP readers just want to find out if you write spanish good enough and they are not expecting an essay like in the AP English exam. </p>
<p>The spoken conversation is the most easiest part of the test (my opinion) because before you begin talking, the instructor gives you a packet which directly guides you what the recording is going to say and what you have to do step by step. When you start talking, to be able to get a good score on that part, just try to be simple and do not talk a lot, just try to get the point through. </p>
<p>Multiple Choice is going to be a challenge for some non-native speakers. Four months before taking the test, our class started preparing for the exam with practice multiple choice. Also, we did practice for everything and our teacher was really good. The best practice for the multiple choice part is to practice multiple choice questions 3 times a week for 4 months.</p>
<p>I got a 5 on it!</p>
<p>Got a 5 also! Definitely worked my butt of this year, there’s just so much you have to know for the test (and you really have to know the format of the test to do well, in my opinion) but this was probably one of my most rewarding 5s of the year.</p>
<p>Good job all. I’ll probably have to work my *** off also for this test.</p>
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You mean you’re paying $8 every 30 mins?!</p>
<p>He’s not^ 10cha</p>
<p>I got a 5! I am by far the most excited about this than any other AP score! My teacher seemed to indicate that it is near impossible to get a 5 without being a native speaker so I was really shocked to find out my score. :)</p>
<p>So this test is seeming easy now. Do you guys that got 5’s have fluency in the language?</p>
<p>Just got mine in the mail… I got a 5! Surprising because I butchered the ‘Presentation’ speaking part. But I used a lot of ‘advanced’ grammar in the writing, so there’s redemption! :D</p>
<p>I can’t believe I got a 5! I was so nervous that my downfall would have been the speaking section, because I followed in the back of my mind the shaded parts of the teacher’s turn as MY turn. As a result, I was left in shock when I heard HER concluding the conversation, when I didn’t get to properly say good-bye :)</p>
<p>For non-native speakers like me, take time to look up past high-scoring essay/speaking responses on the CollegeBoard website. They will help you to see the language in the way it is supposed to be and to understand the idiomatic expressions that are better than any literal translation you might think is correct.</p>
<p>yours cam in the mail??
omg where do you live?
I hope mine comes soon.</p>
<p>I’m really hoping for a 4 or a five but i think there might be a chance that I’ll even get a 3. :[</p>
<p>I live in NorCal</p>
<p>A 5!</p>
<p>My teacher said that no non-Native speaker has received a 5 in her class before, wooo! :D</p>
<p>I believe the ticket to a 5 is to be a member of CC. It seems like everyone gets 5’s on even the toughest exams.</p>
<p>aww dont say that action52!
I got a four and I’m pretty pleased with it.</p>
<p>I should just go delete my account now… lol</p>