<p>is there a penalty for guessing in the listening portion?</p>
<p>no a 70 and above is a five i learned</p>
<p>I'm not discussing the question itself, but today on the speaking presentation part, the timer cut us short, and we only got like 1 minute, 20 something seconds, did this happen to you guys also.
Our cd player was skipping earlier, so they had to bring in another cd player.
Was this just a problem with us, or everybody?</p>
<p>we had a different problem - we took the exam in the gym, where acoustics are horrible, so all of the audio recordings sounded like we were listening to them inside a tin can. i couldn't understand any of them!</p>
<p>i'm thinking i'll get a 2, a 3 if i'm lucky</p>
<p>the test was pretty fast. I've been listening to spanish my whole life and had some trouble catching up with the speakers. I think I got a 5 though.</p>
<p>Alex, are you a native speaker? </p>
<p>I'm not, but I am 100% Latino, have basically grown up around Spanish all the time, and studied it on my own time because I wanted to learn so badly. So by the time I started in Spanish 1, the teacher refused to believe that I'm not a native speaker and moved me to Spanish 3 where all the other native speakers start. We're not AP, (Spanish 4 is AP), but we've done some of the AP oral parts and I found them ridiculously easy. </p>
<p>So I'm guessing you're in a somewhat similar position to mine?</p>
<p>I'm not exactly a native speaker but I did go to Spanish immersion school. The content wasn't the problem, the length of the exam was. You'll do fine, if you also know how to write spanish.</p>
<p>markilya, i think the same thing happened to us too. it did not feel like 2 minutes at all. usually all of us in my class don't speak for the entire 2 minutes when we practice the presentations but today, all of us were cut off and that will probably affect our scores...great! i really, really want a 5 on this...</p>
<p>^ omg me too. it wasnt 2 minutes!! it was way too short ***</p>
<p>what percent do you need for a 4 ?
70% and above is five, amg8891 u sure?</p>
<p>haha...i got cut off on all of them cause i had no idea how to budget my time. If i got 25 % right on the listening ill be happy. Screw life in general.</p>
<p>I went out of sequence with the sim. convo. Not good.</p>
<p>The listening was really fast.</p>
<p>ya i got cut off on the presentation too. did it seem much shorter to u guys? listening parts the speakers spoke sooo fast. it was impossible to understand half of them</p>
<p>Seemed like they trained the people to spew all those broadcasts faster than normal radio broadcasters do. I know, they're simulating real life situations, but do real people really speak that fast? Or am I just really bad at Spanish?</p>
<p>How competent does one have to be in order to score a 4? How do they grade these tests anyways?</p>
<p>real broadcasters do not talk that fast. I'm sure that the presentation wasn't two minutes because it stopped me before my tape recorder said it was two minutes</p>
<p>did anyone's school administer the test out of order? like, free response before multi. choice? is that even allowed?</p>
<p>anyway, FRQ was simple...I was feeling pretty good about myself...but yeah, multi. choice kicked my butt. :( and what's up w/ every wrong answer being 1/3 off?! jeez.</p>
<p>hypothetically what would happen to someone who say, got perfect marks in FRQ but nothing from MC...say a 50%?</p>
<p>and yeah, now that someone mentions it, the presentation did feel kind of short...i usually don't make it all the way to the limit like i did today...</p>
<p>I personally thought the test was really hard. I think all the radio selections were hard and everyone in my class was complaining about the time ending too quickly too.</p>
<p>i agree, i thought it was ridiculously hard. i felt rushed for everything except the formal essay. for the listening section, it felt like it was just one question after another and i couldn't read all of the answer choices fast enough. oh well, my spanish career is over! unless i decide to stay with it in college...</p>
<p>i think that was the hardest ap test ive ever taken, harder than ap chem definitely</p>
<p>can sum1 give out the percentages for 3,4,5?</p>