<p>So the exam will be a complete fail for me... I barely know how to converse in Spanish- I'm really slow at formulating my thoughts spontaneously during taping. Does anybody know the curve for the exam (fairly lenient) and/or any tips?</p>
<p>Same here, I can’t formulate my thoughts so fast…and my vocab. sucks…
Yea, does anyone know approx. what % is the cutoff for a 3, 4, or 5?</p>
<p>Good luck! Are you good at reading comprehension, listening and formal writing? If you are, speaking doesn’t matter. Unfortunately I apparently suck at formal writing and actually got WORSE at listening so I’m out of luck. Same problem as you with speaking.</p>
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<p>5 =11.8%
4 =19.9%
3=19.5%
2 = 21.1%
1 = 27.6%</p>
<p>5,000 people who aren’t native speakers get 5’s</p>
<p>25,000 who are get 5’s</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>how long is the test? how many hrs?</p>
<p>bump bump 10 char</p>
<p>just as long as most others. about 3 hours.</p>
<p>im worried about this one too lol</p>
<p>So I did the practice reading comprehensions from the Course Description on the collegeboard ap website. I only missed 1 each passage! Are these passages easier? Or are there more difficult ones on the real test? Thanks!
Good luck tomorrow everyone…
my biggest fears are listening and speaking…I can’t speak at all…and they talk so fast in the listening section!</p>
<p>tomjonesistheman: I have the same prob. with the listening sections. My strategy is to glean only small bits of info from the sections for part b of the exam, enough to say i incorporated info from the sources in my response 
Buena suerte!</p>
<p>Take notes during the listening - I find that it helps a lot. </p>
<p>During the dialogue - think of some things to say and jot down some notes or ideas in English.</p>
<p>Reading Comp - Underlining, IMO, helps keep concentration</p>
<p>it’s tmrw!! Buena Suerte!</p>
<p>No estoy listo :(</p>
<p>:( I feel like I understand spanish pretty well, having taken it for 6 years, but our teacher spent the entire year on grammar (and there is no longer a grammar section on the test) and only a couple days on speaking/listening…it’s so much harder to spontaneously come up with correct responses and use different tenses and such than to choose the right answers…bleh…oh well</p>
<p>I’m so worried about the simulated conversation, but got everything else down, I think. Gahh</p>
<p>Same here!! Gah just can’t come up with responses fast enough…</p>
<p>I’m a bit worried about the 2 min speaking section, but I have formulated a strategy.</p>
<p>I write tons of notes down from the reading selection then whatever bit I can glean from the listening part. I take most of my quotes from the reading notes and throw in what I can from the listening to say that I incorporated both sources.</p>
<p>As for the oral comprehension MC… meh.</p>