<p>Ive been taking spanish for the past five years and am thinking of taking Ap spanish senior year</p>
<p>how hard is it to pass the test?</p>
<p>is it possible to self study for it because i dont think my teacher will be preparing us based on the exam??</p>
<p>thanks in advance</p>
<p>take the class if you don't feel confident on your self-study skills. Buy yourself a review book and practice to get a solid grasp of the test framing. Is it hard? It's up to your level of commitment. I really can't tell you how it'll be for you. It was easy for me. I self-studied, too. However, I'm a native speaker.</p>
<p>is there anyone here that took the class and ap test who has taken spanish for a while?
what are your experiences?</p>
<p>having taken both AP Spanish and AP French I will tell you Spanish is probably the harder of the two. the test is written to challenge even native speakers; that said, its difficulty varies. some of the practice tests I took were easy 5's...others I barely passed. only about a week more until I know for sure how I did, but I have a good feeling about French. Oh, and I took 5 years of Spanish, 3 of French.</p>
<p>after now getting scores what do you think?</p>
<p>ap spanish language is probably the hardest test i've taken and it's definitely the hardest language test.</p>
<p>i would say that it is one of the hardest tests. i dont know about japanese and chinese because they dont offer them at my school, but i'm sure they're difficult too for non native speakers.</p>
<p>You should definitely study in advance. AP Spanish... to pass it's not horribly difficult but still requires effort. To get a 5 is extremely tough.</p>
<p>what kind of materials (books) did you use?</p>
<p>CB is apparently still grading my test...***?? i hate it!</p>
<p>I go to a school where AP spanish isn't offered...our 4/5 Honors teacher said she would meet with anyone willing to prep for the exam. we met on four or five weekends to do stuff with tape recorders. the week before the exam, she also let us out of class to study in the library.</p>
<p>Basically, it was self study. I am NOT a native speaker, although I've been taking spanish for a while. Here's what I would recommend:</p>
<p>1) self study is definitely possible. I took the exam and felt sort of confident that i would get a three or four--I ended up getting a five (found out today).
2) If you want a good review book, I think the best (and most updated) one is Prentice Hall's "AP Spanish: Preparing for the Language Exam" I think you have to purchase the test booklet and answer booklet separately, but it is the exact same format as the test, so it is definitely worth the price.<br>
3) i would also recommend becoming familiar with your tape recorder. you'll have to be used to it...especially when the test proctors start to pop in tapes at the wrong time.
4) there are ways to play safe on the exam. for writing and speaking portions, for example, it's recommended that you use some subjunctive, imperfect, future tenses, etc. after practicing the speaking parts, you can start to have a rehearsed intro: "Hello class, today i will do (future) a presentation on ___<strong><em>, who/which are two _</em></strong>_______. I have been preparing for a long time (imperfect). I sincerely hope (subjunctive) that you enjoy the presentation" etc. </p>
<p>wow...this is really long. i hope it helps, somehow.</p>
<p>no, but my headset did break down on me during the conversation part and im not sure if my recorder worked after that lol. good old spanish...</p>
<p>Spanish is most definitely the hardest AP (at least of the ones that I've taken)</p>
<p>I've gotten one 3 (English Language) a bunch of 4's and 5's and then BOOM - AP Spanish Language:1</p>
<p>any other suggestions??</p>
<p>is it really that hard?
ive been taking Spanish since like 7th grade..</p>
<p>what are your experience levels?</p>
<p>I've taken at least some Spanish since 4th grade, and I took AP Spanish my senior year of high school. I did well in the class with an A average for the year.
It was the first year that students were taking the test along with the class and our teacher was very good (she was Argentinian so we all finished the course with her unique accent, pronouncing, for example, "ella" as "eja" rather than "eya.")
Then I got my test score back this month and I got a 1. I talked to others in the class and most received the same score. It's a hard test.</p>
<p>It was my fifth year and I got a 3 even though my tape was deeemed "ungradeable" but it was definately the hardest AP exam I took in HS. I had a solid 89-90(B) average all year</p>
<p>Espa</p>
<p>^^not just the subjunctive, but most of the other tenses are hard too. i can nvr remember the names of them all lol</p>
<p>The Spanish AP test is not impossible to pass. However, all of the native speakers that take the test make it harder to get 4's or 5's. I have taken 4 years of Spanish and got a 3 on the AP test. My teacher didn't really prep us for the test...she mainly just taught us a bunch of new vocab once we knew all of the tenses and gave us a practice test in April, and I did well enough without any self-studying. The most crucial skill for this test is reading. A major part of your grade relies on your reading comprehension questions. Try some practice tests and see how well you do with the reading. If you feel you are well acclimated as far as the reading goes, or you will be able to improve yourself on your own, then you should be fine on your own. However, taking the class cant hurt, can it?</p>
<p>My daughter has a friend who got a 5 this year on the Spanish exam. She took Spanish throughout school, though. Rumor is, it's a VERY hard exam.</p>