<p>D got a 770 or 780 (not worth looking it up right now) on the French SAT II (without listening) and a 4 on the AP. She reported the AP oral part was extremely hard, difficult to understand the rapid speech. I think she did relatively better on the SAT because she was taught the grammar, vocabulary, etc. in class but is not a native speaker and has had some immersion for short periods during summers. The “word” from language teacher at our h.s. is that the Spanish AP test used to be much easier than French in what was required but that Spanish was recently changed and is now more demanding. If you’re comparing current Spanish AP scores to those of 5 years ago, the comparison might not be fair.</p>