<p>Yeah I noticed the listening screwover too! Thank god they repeat the q’s twice, I was finishing up the previous question while the next question was being played. Not terrific, but I think I managed… But listening seems to be my best section, weirdly enough. Reading comp was fine except for the last passage which was terrible.</p>
<p>The paragraph completions were so anticlimatic! I did so many practice exercises in class and I finished all of the exam ones in 5 minutes! Luckily that gave me 50 minutes for the essay 
But do you know what was funny about the essay? I just put myself in college app essay mode, except in French, and was able to BS my way through it like none other 
I liked it. </p>
<p>The speaking section was genuinely traumatic though. I have speech issues in English, let alone French, and the announcements came on the intercom halfway through and we couldn’t stop and I got distracted. And then the proctor made me play back my responses to make sure they recorded, so I got to relive 3 terrible minutes of me saying “uhhhhhhhhh…je…uhhhh. (5 sec pause)…etre…” ■■■</p>
<p>For the skipping listening questions, does that mean they will omit those questions or just add onto the curve? I had a problem with my CD and it kept skipping so I completely missed out on half of the passage listening and had to guess…</p>
<p>I thought I was just slow or something. When the questions shot off tlike that I was horrified because I thought the rest of the exam was going to be like that. Thank God that those will not be scored. hahaha because I barely got to read the choices!</p>
<p>Hahaha, awesome! I thought I was just uber inept.</p>
<p>Yeah I didn’t think listening was that bad, besides the long dialogues, one of which I kind of zoned out (:S). It wasn’t too bad, I would say, and the reading was easy up until the last passage… I’m hoping I did pretty well on MC but you never know :S</p>
<p>I busted out that essay pretty easily mostly because it was such an easy topic, esp. in my current condition (not too specific, right? lol).</p>
<p>And speaking was much more of a relief. I didn’t use complicated structures like I wanted to, but I managed to fit in some pretty idiomatic French and crack a few jokes. Hopefully they’ll find my accent sufficient enough for me to do well, but again I’m ambiguous~</p>
<p>The speaking utterly traumatized me. I basically went blank for some of it and for others I couldn’t finish what I was saying.</p>
<p>guys i have a problem! on the essay section (i’m not giving away the question) I accidentally wrote what means “tortoise” everywhere i meant to write another word. do I still have a chance of doing well?! What do you think? Maybe the grader will understand my mistake!</p>
<p>lol well that shows an ability for idomatic usage… hopefully you’d get some kudos for that ;)</p>
<p>how long were your essay’s? Mine was two pages. I thought it was a bit short but I made sure the grammer was perfect.</p>
<p>mine was two and a half pages (I have huge handwriting, btw), but technically you only need two pages to get a higher score. If your grammar was perfect you’re already ahead of 95% of us :)</p>
<p>my essay was a page and a half</p>
<p>My essay was just over two pages, so I’m not really worried about the length… what I’m wondering about is how harshly they grade depending on the level of vocabulary used. I’m afraid that I wrote the essay in too conversation a style, without many big words and compound tenses. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>If you look at their grading rubrics for the speaking section, most of them just want a clear accent that sounds comfortable and fluid. From what I’ve seen, they grade pretty easily for the speaking and tend to reward students more than they punish them. Hopefully that means that for us (I did the same thing), they’ll be nice :)</p>
<p>I thought the fill-ins were a joke compared to ones from previous years. Speaking was another story, however. I repeated myself in the first question, and I actually said that the train was “cleaner” than the highway (I said “rue” because I didn’t know how to say highway in French.) :P</p>
<p>anyone opting for the retake instead of just omitting the questions? i know i am - hopefully it will be easier :)</p>
<p>and since frq’s are out, lets discuss! what did you guys get for the function words?</p>
<ol>
<li>d’</li>
<li>au</li>
<li>l’</li>
<li>C’ (not too sure on)</li>
<li>lui</li>
<li>en (should be au, it’s “le Mexique”)</li>
<li>qui</li>
<li>y</li>
<li>ce</li>
<li>pour</li>
<li>a (with the accent grave, of course :P)</li>
<li>dont</li>
<li>pas (just realized it should be “rien”, damn)</li>
<li>leur</li>
<li>de</li>
<li>se leve (present tense because he says later on “Il me dit toujours” and NOT “Il m’a dit toujours”; with accent grave over the first e)</li>
<li>conduise</li>
<li>fasse</li>
<li>avait pu</li>
<li>serait alle (accent aigu on the e)</li>
<li>passant</li>
<li>avait fait</li>
<li>sortir</li>
<li>Fais</li>
<li>vais</li>
<li>dormait</li>
<li>s’est reveille (two accents aigus there)</li>
<li>avoir</li>
<li>s’est rendu compte (I hope that’s what I put, lol)</li>
<li>est venu (pretty sure)</li>
</ol>
<p>thanks tan2007! for the most part we had similar answers but for 12 i put ‘que’ because there’s no reason to put ‘dont’ is there? for 13, i’m pretty sure it’s ‘aucune’ because a noun can’t follow rien, plus nouvelle was singular. i missed 16 and 30 though…wrong tense :(</p>
<p>i just realized there were no future tenses which was kind of strange…</p>
<p>I agree; I think it was “aucune.” I think number 12 was “dont” because you hear news **of<a href=“about”>/b</a> someone.</p>