<p>I’m taking it too, but I feel extremely unprepared. My school’s course doesn’t focus a lot on speaking, so I feel like that’s where I’m going to get dominated. I can read and understand well, but listening and speaking are just… horrible :(</p>
<p>I’m just hoping for a 3, because I can get credit for that. How much can you screw up on this exam and still get a 3? haha :)</p>
<p>You could probably do poorly on the listening and speaking part and still get a 3. I believe more emphasis is placed on reading and writing.</p>
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<p>We looked at/listened to example responses from previous years today, and all the 3’s were really bad. You can screw up a lot. For speaking though, just keep talking and don’t pause, even if you have no idea what you’re talking about. (my teacher grades actual ap’s and said it’s better to rant about something unrelated than to pause and wait.)</p>
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<p>How bad were the 3s?</p>
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<p>Coming from the denizen of the kingdom of knowledge himself, this isn’t comforting to those of us, especialmente las personas entre nosotros–como yo–que no pueden hablar ni escribir el espa</p>
<p>Tengan fe, van a salir bien en el examen manana. Have faith, you guys are gonna do great on the exam tomorrow.</p>
<p>BTW, how do you put in accents?</p>
<p>Tomare el examen manana tambien. Buena suerte a todos!</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t want to screw around with the accents. :D</p>
<p>cody2010, thanks! that helps my confidence. if anyone else has info on how poorly you can do and get a 3, post it. thankss :)</p>
<p>Anyone who took it last year have any tips for us?</p>
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<p>Por ejemplo, on the virtual conversation, one of the ones that got a 3 was like:</p>
<p><em>beep</em> "uhhhhhhhhhhh, me gusta shakira… si, yo quiero ir a la concierto con tu… ** I MEAN ** contigo… uhhhhhh… yo espero que uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh <em>beep</em></p>
<p>…and when our teacher told us they earned a 3 we all got really cocky. So don’t take my word for it and think you can do that and still pass.</p>
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<p>Pero no puedo pensar en esta manera positiva, porque yo s</p>
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<p>If anyone happens to do poorly on the test, consider taking the Spanish CLEP test. My son scored a 2 on his AP test and immediately, upon learning the bad news, went to our local university and took the CLEP test. They scored it on the spot and he received 3 credits from his university. He just missed getting 6 credits. CLEP tests are accepted by over 3,000 colleges.</p>
<p>Does anyone have the cutoff to get a 4? Or an example of scores for each section that typically earn a 4?</p>
<p>^ half right on the MC = mid 3. All I know.</p>
<p>I’m super nervous bcuase last year 3 native speakers took the test and none scored a 5…all of the native speakers throw the curve way off!</p>
<p>Well I’ve found out that with many native speakers, they have improper grammar which is heavily expected in each section D:</p>
<p>and thank you Cody2010, I think I can exceed that…</p>
<p>It seems to me like a lot of you should have a good shot.
I was completely unprepared for the test last year, I didn’t even know what the test consisted of until the week before, and had pretty limited vocabulary. The only thing I had going for me was that I had a native spanish speaker as a teacher and we did a lot of speaking and essays in the class.
Anyways, I went into the test hoping for a 3, thinking I would get a 2, and ended up getting a 5. Long story short, if you can put sentences together and write a decent essay you should do great. Where a lot of native speakers get docked is their inability to write, so if you are a good writer, you have a distinct edge. Also, don’t get too caught up in your notes during the listening section, it makes it harder to keep up. Finally, you will most likely be taken off guard by the presentational speaking but you have to remember many people feel the same way.
Anyways, at this point I would just go over some vocab. I don’t know how true the claim that there is often something relating to the environment on the test but on last year’s exam that was the focus of the essay (the presentational speaking was on spanish language). Good luck, and just be confident, it will help you more than anything.</p>
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<p>…that’s quite an edge.</p>
<p>Yes and no. It was good practice but she never actually taught us grammar and knew nothing about the test. Also, it was her first year doing AP Spanish.</p>