AP Spanish Literature

Test Preparation AP World Languages
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<p>My school doesn't offer spanish lit, and I was wondering exactly how much work the exam requires. I took AP Spanish Language this year, and got a 5 with minimal effort. My strengths are in Reading and Listening Comprehension as well as spoken dialogue. My question is what does the Spanish lit exam cover and what is the formatting?</p>

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<p>My understanding is that it’s similar to the english lit exam, but you have to write everything in Spanish.</p>

<p>Here’s the required reading list - [AP:</a> Spanish Literature](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>AP Spanish Literature and Culture Required Reading List – AP Students | College Board)</p>

<p>Course description - <a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;

<p>At my school, the course is one of the most difficult offered. Probably requires a lot of work just to read all those things. I’m taking it next year lol</p>

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<p>Ahh, thank you. I was not sure if the reading list was truly neccesary to do well. It appears that you can’t ace this exam just by being a native speaker. Bummer…</p>

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<p>The exam goes like this:
-Part one is MC. You read passages and are asked about rhetorical strategies, tone, word connotations, symbolism, etc.
-Part two is three essays: poem analysis, thematic analysis, and text analysis. The last two will be about texts from the reading list. The first one will be about a poem printed in the test booklet.</p>

<p>I’m taking the class during the upcoming school year and we’ll be using Nextext’s Abriendo Puertas: Tomos I & II (two different books, each about 500 pages each) as our textbooks. All the required reading is packed into there.
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<p>I haven’t seen that many review books around though. I know that Princeton Review shares a single book for both language and literature. You’ll have to work, since it isn’t a common exam. Colleges are all over the place in regarding this exam–either they don’t recognize it, or it’ll give you enough credits to only have 3 classes left before completing a minor in Spanish. My advice is to only do it if you’re really interested in the literature, culture, and language of Spanish countries.</p>