<p>It's time to sign up for AP exams...(boo..hooo)...and I am not sure if I should take the AP Spanish Language exam. When I came to America, I started to learn English while my classmates were staring to learn Spanish. So I am year behind compared to most. Currently, I am taking IB Spanish 5 SL. When I asked my teacher wether I should take Sat II or AP, she said that SAT II gives me placement but no credit, while AP gives me both placement and credit. Now, the AP seems absolutely hard ( and so does the teacher say) so my question is what should I do? Do most students continue to study a language after they fulfill the requirement? I am interested in persueing a new language like Arabic or something like that and I don't know if that is smart at all. Gosh, I just need advice. Thanks!</p>
<p>i would venture to say most students do NOT pursue the language after fulfuilling the requirement. the 101-202 language sequences at UVa are known for being unnecissarily hard. in their defense, however, UVa is known for its romance language department.</p>
<p>So what did you do jags back in the day? Did you take an ap or sat II to get it over with?</p>
<p>A quick related question: Is there language placement test? I didn't take SAT2 Chinese since I think it'll be stupid to take a test for a language that is my first language. What will the language placement test give you if you passed the test? Credits? exemption of credits?</p>
<p>i took a 101-202 sequence in italian. didn't do particularly well, but am over with it.</p>
<p>there are placement tests at summer and fall orientation i believe (by appt only at fall i am pretty sure, for more obscure langs). placement gives you exemption not credit. for credit, you need IB/AP. there is a list of this credit on tha A&S website. im sure you can google uva ap credit and it will give you something.
i think it really depends on what language you take and what you are interested in. if you are not interested in continuing spanish, you can start a new language when you come here. but you may not like the new language and 2 years is a long time. so you need to take some sort of placement test before you get here just in case. personally, i tested out of 1 year of german but am taking hebrew instead and am loving it. it is a lot more lax than all of the other languages here. and in the language's defense, i know a kid double majoring in spanish and chinese and he's taken at least 3 other languages here too.</p>
<p>Ha..that kid is amazing! I will take the AP test and we'll go from there.</p>