<p>So what did you guys think? I really liked the story about the kid and his tooth lol.</p>
<p>I’m a non-native speaker and thought it was much easier than the practice exams I took in my class. I’m hoping for a 4 since I’m pretty sure that I got at least a 3.</p>
<p>The biggest fail of my life. The native Spanish speaker in my class who usually gets 5’s on all the practices and says they are easy, commented on how hard the exam was today.</p>
<p>Was ok. I thought I did pretty well except for the interpersonal writing (which is typically the easiest section for me…).</p>
<p>I think I got a 4. My teacher told me she was sure I’d get a 5 but I didn’t feel too confident walking out of the exam. 
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<p>Oh well, a 4 still gets me credit. I’ll feel kind of bad for teacher if I do get a 4, though; she’ll probably feel bad telling me I’d get a 5 when I didn’t!</p>
<p>I knew a couple words :D</p>
<p>No seriously, there’s no way I’m getting anything higher than a 1. I went in blind as a guinea pig for our school.</p>
<p>I thought that the passage-based MC was pretty easy, and the listening was overall decent…even though the entire room was lol’ing about the subject (you can guess which one I’m talking about) and background music the entire time.</p>
<p>I hate doing these essays, but this time I actually found the topic and materials bearable. The informal writing, though…I just had nothing to say. I guess this test isn’t meant for non-creative people.</p>
<p>The presentational speaking was honestly a joke…in a bad way. The topic was just weird, and it was really awkward to discuss/compare.</p>
<p>I agree with everything mada said, except the part about the informal writing. I thought it was fine.
The presentational speaking was awful - I was tired (we had technical difficulties which prevented us from doing the speaking part for 45 minutes) and the topic was extremely awkward, and I kept forgetting words and blabbering. I probably got a 1 or 2 on that part.
The interpersonal speaking…here’s the freaky thing: I was in that EXACT SAME SITUATION a week ago so I had answers prepared! (only differences were the name of the person I was talking to, the fact that it was in English, and I had more than 20 seconds to speak each time) However I kept stumbling on grammar.</p>
<p>I honestly thought it was easy. I am a native speaker though. The listening MC questions were a joke. They were SO easy. But maybe I feel that way bc the AP barrons practice questions were hard and so that was the part I was most scared for. the reading MC was ok. Shakira passage was easy. Boy lost tooth passage was ok, there were 2 questions in there that I want to discuss (when can we discuss them?). </p>
<p>Interpersonal writing was ok. Not much to talk about.
Interpersonal speaking was ok too.
Presentational writing was a little tough for me bc I’m not good at that stuff. Presentational speaking was good imo, but my presentation only lasted 1 minute and 50 seconds rather than 2 minutes. Will this be a problem?</p>
<p>The speaking parts were the WORST for me. I did not know what to say in the conversation so I just kind of babbled, and the presentational I was kind of like ummm okayyyy
The writing was actually really easy and I think I did well on that
The multiple choice… two of the longer listening passages I was kind of confused (because they talked as fast as possible!!!) and I didn’t get to answer the last 3 questions in time, but I don’t think I did bad!</p>
<p>I was tempted to ■■■■■ the test in my native Asian language…but overall I found the test was much easier than the Barron’'s practice tests I’ve been doing (in terms of the level of vocabulary used in passages and the relatability of the essay/oral prompts). I’m keeping my fingers crossed for lenient grading on the free response tasks though, since I ran out of time to check grammatical errors. Does anyone have a rough breakdown on how the scores are scaled?</p>
<p>I completely choked on the speaking. I got nervous and just blanked and sort of stuttered…disaster. I didn’t think the writing section was too bad as the topics were fairly relatable, but then again our teacher did an awful job preparing us so I very well could have done worse than I thought.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how the curve works? If i got a 5 on MC, 5 on Writing, and a 3 or even a 2 on the speaking, what would the grade be? I started out great on both speaking parts, but degenerated to mindless, incoherent babble</p>
<p>I’m expecting a solid 3 but hopefully a 4. Definitely not a 5. I think I did well on the interpersonal writing, although I kind of was all over the place. The presentational writing was not my best, I expect a 3 from that, maybe a 4. Speaking is going to bring me down. I got some of my tenses mixed up… listening and reading hopefully will bring up my score. </p>
<p>Overall, I thought the CollegeBoard was resonable (usually I don’t!) except for the longer listening sections. Those were hard to hear and understand with all of the background noise.</p>
<p>As a native speaker I think I did good in the mc and informal writing. The other essay was meh and I did terrible on the speaking bc I got nervous and distracted</p>
<p>Our school had trouble with the listening sections. Some of the sections were extremely garbled, and the words were slurring a lot. Our proctor said that she was going to submit the tests as they were, though, which is lame. </p>
<p>By the way, the breakdown of the test as far as I know is:</p>
<p>150 points total
20% listening
30% comprehension
10% informal writing
20% formal writing
10% formal speaking
10% informal speaking</p>
<p>Around 110+ out of 150 is a 5. Hoping that getting around half of the listening section right doesn’t affect me much, considering the rest of the test was pretty easy.</p>
<p>Do they just put in scores 1-5 for the grading, or (for the MC) do they do raw percentage?</p>
<p>They add the points you get from each section and then refer to a cutoff for each level of points to determine your composite score. </p>
<p>For multiple choice, take how many you think you got right out of the total of each section, multiply by its weight, then by 150. Do the same process for the writing and speaking sections (from 1-5 of 5 for each). Add the points together, and you’ll get an estimate of what you’ll have scored.</p>
<p>I thought the 2 minute presentation was the hardest part… the essay was easy. All I’m hoping for is I get a 3.</p>
<p>i thought the essays were the easiest. the multiple choice was difficult. the speaking was easy but i hesitated and was nervous the entire time…i couldn’t think of much to say on the spot… I’ll probably get a 3, but when i did the estimated grade calculations, my raw score is just a few points off from a 4 which is like 92+ … (my estimated score was 91 lol). I assumed i got 4’s on the essays, 3’s on the speaking (cause of my hesitation), and 50%'s on the multiple choice which I had to guess on quite a few s:</p>
<p>Btw, on the informal writing I didn’t have enough time to say goodbye in my letter… will that serve as the difference between a 5 or a 4 essay? i had some fairly good content… threw in some subj and some idioms.</p>
<p>When can we discuss questions</p>