<p>Has anyone non-native actually passed the exam? I only know of one person who passed the exam who was a non-native speaker.</p>
<p>I am not native, but lived in Latin America (Chile) for a year. All the exchange students that I met have made a 4+ on the exam...so I plan on doing the same.</p>
<p>We have an advantage. All the non-native people that I know usually make about a 3.</p>
<p>mm, yeah that's definitely an advantage. Also because you're pretty much immersed in Spanish language. :)</p>
<p>why is it so hard to get a 5 (or even a 4) on the AP Spanish exam as a non-native speaker? I dont get it.</p>
<p>vicky thats like saying y is it so hard to get a 5 or 4 on the ap english exam as a NATIVE speaker</p>
<p>lol yes, chickenboi, it is like that. </p>
<p>Really, it's the lack of vocabulary that non-natives dont have.</p>
<p>i'm a non-native speaker who took 3 yrs of hs spanish and got a 5 last year. it had to be a total fluke. my grammar is good, my reading decent, but my speaking absolutely horrible. when people ask if I'm fluent in Spanish, I say yes according to the college board, no according to anyone else. practice, practice, practice. and pray. i was very lucky in that one of my best friends is from argentina (and she was taking the test as well). studying with her (and her mother) really helped.</p>
<p>my last year spanish class had like 3 4s and a 5...all non native speakers.
as long as you are not using it in everyday conversation it is really really HARD! also it sucks to have a bad teacher
I didn't do too well...but spanish is my third language...</p>
<p>this year i'm in spanish literature AP where my teachers had all her non native speakers last year get 4s, which is a really good sign.</p>
<p>I'm a non-native speaker and I took the test my sophomore year (now a senior) after study abroad (for 3rd year credit), a fourth-year class, and independent fifth year during the summer before 9th grade, semester 2 of 9th grade, and tenth grade, respectively. I got a 5. I and another kid (also non-native speaker), a senior then who now goes to Stanford U, were the first (and only, so far) in my school's AP Spanish history to get 5s. The third kid who took the exam that year was a native speaker, Puerto Rican, and got a 3 with almost no exam preparation. Last year a non-native speaker scored a 4.</p>
<p>My mom is the AP Spanish teacher, so it was a little easier for me to study for the AP--though it's been my family's lifestyle that has made me good at Spanish, what with travelling and studying abroad and watching Spanish-language movies and carrying on conversations in Spanish to impress her first-year students and so forth. Anyway, Mom says that one of her native Spanish speaking students got a 4, but that's it. There really aren't that many native speakers at my school who take the exam in the first place, though. I don't think any native speakers are in AP Spanish this year, but since I've moved on to AP French I'm not really 100% in the loop. :p</p>
<p>Last year I think 3/4 of the AP Spanish kids at my school passed, and there weren't more than a couple native speakers. Everyone I know personally that took it passed.</p>
<p>Our class last year had a 78% pass rate. I think there were like two or three native speakers in a class of about 50. I passed and I took 2.5 years of Spanish before taking the exam. But this year they changed the test and it seems harder.</p>
<p>see, I live in Florida so most kids who are taking it are native speakers, placing me at a disadvantage, becuase my teacher tends to speak mostly in Spanish and almost nothing in English during discussions.</p>