<p>haha done! las lecturas - UGH ... paragraph completion ... UGH... parte oral .. bueno!!</p>
<p>How did everyone do? I think I did ok. I thought everything was easy except the readings. The topic for the 5 questions was pretty weird, but they were still pretty easy. The essay was perhaps my favorite thing I have ever written in spanish... basically it was awesome because the topic was awesome :)</p>
<p>WOW. completely bombed that.. haha i was in the middle of the exam when i realized that none of my studying did me any use. parte oral was weird.. i couldnt understand half of the questions on the test because his words were all blurred together :(. or maybe it's just my ears.</p>
<p>one part cough cough a certain interview in the listening was very confusing ...</p>
<p>Hmm I had trouble on one listening thing.</p>
<p>My essay, I started off writing about one thing. Then, with about 10 minutes left, I realized I hadn't answered half the question. So i rambled on for a hundred and 50 scrambled words or so...</p>
<p>Speaking, I didn't do so hot.</p>
<p>Fill Ins, hard as usual.</p>
<p>Does anybody know if they scale the tests based one how people do?</p>
<p>Oh yeah... that interview did suck... a lot!</p>
<p>But if this makes anybody feel better, a girl in my class is a native speaker and she didn't even finish on the reading part. I think that part was the biggest problem for my class. The fill ins were really easy for our class as a whole. The listenings weren't too bad (except for 5 minutes of it they were doing the announcements then our AP coordinator yelled at them lol). The essay was good. The speaking was in the middle but the topic sucked. The readings were really pretty bad for the whole class though. None of us realized there would be sooo many passages!</p>
<p>Yeah, I almost didn't finish the reading, I had like two minutes left. 6 passages!!! That's insane!!!! And the interview sucked so bad. And the person sitting next to me starting talking in english on the oral part, so that completely distracted me. Awesome. Actually, everything went pretty well except for the oral part on the pictures and that random part where I got distracted by a girl yelling, "OH MY GOD!!!" during the oral part.</p>
<p>Had to take the exam in a trailer at my school. People kept opening the door to come to class during the listening part, even though there was a HUGE sign in front of the eyes that said "DO NOT DISTURB. TESTING IN PROGRESS." And then my proctor kept getting up and down and making <em>tons</em> of noise!</p>
<p>ACK! Sorry, don't mean to complain, but it was really hard, and now I'm worried...</p>
<p>The essay was fine, in my opinion, but the listening, reading, and talking (i.e. the rest of the test) chupan muchisimo.</p>
<p>ughh.... i did bad?</p>
<p>listening was alright... until the long narrative came along.
then reading comp just went downhill....</p>
<p>open response fill in the blank was alright; prolly missed a few tho</p>
<p>essay was probably my strongest section; i actually wrote a good essay, and incorporated complex sentence structures and subjunctive and passive voice and everything =]</p>
<p>then oral part was a disaster... for the pic sequence, i finished like a min and 20 sec into the thing, then sat there looking stupid while everyone around me kept talking....</p>
<p>and the directed response... what a stupid topic.... some of them i came up with good answers, some of them i stuttered and blanked out horribly.</p>
<p>so yea... anyone have any idea what the composite score ranges are... i believe the entire test is out of 180 pts; anyone got a point breakdown for 3s, 4s or 5s? as in, like on past tests, how much of a scaling curve was there?</p>
<p>and also, is it worth canceling a score if you really think you failed it?</p>
<p>I think the scale slides each year, they try to make a decent bell curve centered around 3, maybe a little higher, since I think there's more 4's and 5's than 2's and 1's. Not sure</p>
<p>Usually, about a 120-130 is the cutoff for a 5.</p>
<p>I thought the test was fairly easy. The listening part was simple, although I was a bit distracted by impure thoughts as they were talking about the interview, even though it wasn't actually who they said it was.</p>
<p>The reading part, there were a lot of passages, but I finished early.</p>
<p>The essay was good, the speaking was good also. I alway got cut off by the time limit, not sure how bad that is. The directed response topic was definitely lame.</p>
<p>I could barely contain myself on the last listening. I hate the "th" sound added to almost every single word and it did not even sound like Penelope Cruz! I really screwed up on the Direct questions though. i moaned and the proctor laughed when I heard the word "HAPPINESS"! I totally bsed it. Hey maybe they will give me a point for my pretty pictures that conclude my essay (to bad the AP Art people wont see those pics).</p>
<p>"distracted by impure thoughts as they were talking about the interview, even though it wasn't"
LOL.</p>
<p>Yes, I HATED the lisping Southern Spain (? Catalan?) accent. HATED. It's hard to understand in English, but in Spanish...GAH...Also didn't really understand the Milan one.</p>
<p>I actually thought the reading wasn't that bad. I got through it with a little time at the end to review. The last passage was really hard though. Ugh. I was annoyed that I didn't have enough time to review my essay (time was up halfway through), but I did finish, so that's good. Fill-ins were actually pretty easy, but I don't want to jinx myself. :) 6 picture sequence wasn't crazy - like aliens or anything - although I only had one subjunctive and could've used more. On the directed questions tho, I used subjunctive almost everytime..."es importante para mi que"...lol. I thought they weren't that bad, though kinda hard to understand (esp. 1st and last).</p>
<p>what parts of the test are we allowed to be specific about? i have a few questions...</p>
<p>i did poorly</p>
<p>The reading was ok. I think what made it hard was that ALL of them were of medium difficulty...The listening was ok until Penelope Cruz. The final questions about happiness were ok except for #2 and #5. Wow, where do they get these guys? This guy spoke fast and really slurred his speech. I got the jist of the first four questions, but the fifth....WOW.</p>
<p>Overall it wasn't too difficult but still kind of hard.</p>
<p>YES OMG the lisping on the Penelope Cruz one bugged the crap out of me. And the one who did the direct response questions wasn't very clear. I think the fill-in-the-blank ones were pretty easy, because that's basically what most of our tests consist of in class. Except I wasn't sure about 8 on the first section. Hopefully essay was allright.. they like it if you use subjunctive and si clauses and transition words right :D.</p>
<p>im a 2nd/3rd generation spanish honduran (both) kido... i clicked "no" for the the questions... was that kosher? i mean we speak english at home, and i was born here... so.... lol... hopefully i get browny points! i think EXCELLENT on the second part.... (verbs n essay n speaking).... reading n listening were horrible, i think i only got like a little more than half right.... anyone know the the curve? i <em>was</em> aiming for a 5.... sigh.... i say WAAAAAY more verbs/grammar n speaking, less reading! who's with me?!</p>
<p>I am very angry...I hate Castillian Spanish. Is anyone else moderately clueless as to what the guy was saying during the five oral questions? I rambled about things that made me happy or just began saying a long sentence that I had no end planned for in roder to waste time. I know I got a 1.</p>
<p>Oh, and we also felt obligated to criticize one of the girls taking the exam; she's from Costa Rica. We jokingly told her how it's her fault we're all going to fail, since she kept saying it was so easy.</p>