french ap anyone?

<p>ah i have my french AP tomorrow and i can't speak nor listen.
im trying to practice my ass off with the speaking and listening but of course it's not a skill that i can just acquire within a few weeks. :( argh this is so frustrating.</p>

<p>does anyone know the score index? like what score you need to get a 3 , 4 , 5 etc.?
and how do the AP scorers calculate the score? i just know that each section counts 25% and that u can get a 5 max on the speaking and 9 max on the essay.</p>

<p>is there a -1/3 penalty for guessing? </p>

<p>thanks!</p>

<p>-1/4 on MC, like for all AP tests and SATs. But yeah, we're in the same boat for tomorrow. Argh! I've been pretty much self-studying, which is a really stupid thing to do.</p>

<p>same here. my teacher isnt really that great and we never really practcied speaking or anyting until 3 weeks ago. this sucks.</p>

<p>if you guess on the fill-in-the blank portion of the test, do they deduct points? or do u just receive 0 points for your wrong answer?</p>

<p>bump.....!!!</p>

<p>There is really no competition here - I have the worst french teacher ever.</p>

<p>I can't "entend" or "parle tres courament" et I will probably "echouer l'examen." Tomorrow will suck. After the french exam, I have 30 minutes to run over to take the AP Eng. Language exam, whatever the hell that's all about.</p>

<p>My 2 is waiting for me. If I had studied or done my homework, I honestly wouldn't be feeling any better at this point.</p>

<p>And, yes, if you get a mulitiple choice wrong it is -1/4 pt. Ill be guessing on almost every MC. It's funny, though, becuase the "fill-ins" and essay dont worry me at all.</p>

<p>How have you guys prepped?</p>

<p>wait what if you guess on the non-mult choice (fill in)? </p>

<p>hey cornerstones you are in the same shape as me.
my 2 is waiting ahahah.
dude good luck on your ap language and french. 2 ap's back to back? how insane and inhumane.</p>

<p>we dont do **** in my french class. we try to cram ap prep into like a month and its not going very well. plus my teacher wastes so much time talking in english about her idiotic behavior from the day before. </p>

<p>im right now going thru the collegeboard.com's free resopnse questions and looking thru some old fill inthe blank my teacher actually gave us. and im planning on diong som reading.
listening i suck ass.
speaking oh god im listening to samples on apcentral ( i registered so i could listen to the speakin samples) and im realyl freaking out.</p>

<p>is there a huge big curve on the french AP like there is for the french sat II?
and what if you guess on the non-mult choice (fill in)? do they deduct points if its wrong?</p>

<p>On our midterm, my teacher gave us an AP - the first one of the year. I got a 30% on the listening, a 45% on the reading, and then like an 85% on the fill-ins and an A on the essay. The average grade in the class was a B- for that test. I had a 77, but with the curve, I got an A. That's how ****ty my class is. And, yes, I will fail. </p>

<p>My teacher said that I should go for 50% on the listening - whatta goal, huh? So, today I did some listening for the second time this whole year. Throughout the year, we spent all our time making powerpoint presentations and baking food - oh, and listening to french songs. What prep!</p>

<p>Cookiemonkey, good luck to you too. Let me know how you find the exam! And, if you start freaking out - just think of cornerstones laughing hysterically into the mic. when she can't interpret ANYTHING!!! ahhaha</p>

<p>ahah well we never even went thru a full length AP exam in my class. my teacher asked ME to organize and sort thru all of her papers for AP prep. *** IM the student. shouldnt she be the one going thru the papers? </p>

<p>im kind of <strong><em>ed right now. i cant talk *</em></strong> and i cant listen ***.
fill in the blank - the one word im getting like half right. verbs im ok.
im counting on the essays to boost my score. i can get a 6-8 (as long as the prompt isnt really weird...)</p>

<p>ah im going to **** in my pants the day of the AP.</p>

<p>ok you know what i really hate? How I'll figure out the right tense of the verb - even if it's like plus-que-parfait or whatever or futur anterieur - but then I'll conjugate it wrong! How annoying is that! errr</p>

<p>Anyway, I think that, for the rest of the night, I'm just going to chill out - I've got 4 exams to take over teh enxt week - 5 if you want to count and SATII that Im taking saturday (thank god Im taking the otehr 2 in june!). What i will do is this: come up with categories or lists of stuff that I can use for the speaking - sports, vacation, activities, camping (why do they love camping stuff?), things in homes, things in schools; I'm also going to go over some old vocab and phrases that are supposed to be used to start of paragraphs,like "A un part," and stuff like "Tandis que." What is on your agenda?</p>

<p>im going thru the collegeboard.com's free response , gonna go thru old vocab, practice soem more speaking w/ pictures, and do some reading and some more listening. basically , i ll cram. </p>

<p>a un part? what's that? AHAH yea looks like im goign to fail.</p>

<p>oh yea and i have to do calculus hw and bio hw and study for like 5 more APs (but i'll probably save that for later in the week). death stab stab.</p>

<p>muhuhaha im done with SAT II's. :)</p>

<p>good luck to whoever takes that hell</p>

<p>i'm taking it tomorrow also.. good luck guys :)</p>

<p>Je passe l'examen demain aussi..... bonne chance tout le monde! :)</p>

<p>Haha, I basically just reiterated the previous poster's post, but I do mean it! ;) :D</p>

<p>cornerstones, dont u mean u have to take ur english exam first? and then run over to take your french exam?</p>

<p>No - I have to be in my seat (for french) at 7:45 am and in my seat for english at 11:30... yay - I'm super thrilled. Is yours the other way?</p>

<p>Hmmm?? How does that work out? Is it because of time zone differences? Even so, how could that work out? Unless you're not talking about AP Exams, then I think you're mistaken, cornerstones. ;)</p>

<p>I'm not mistaken. AP French Language and then AP Eng. Language ... no joke</p>

<p><a href="http://www.apcentral.collegeboard.com/exam/calendar/0,,152-168-0-0,00.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.apcentral.collegeboard.com/exam/calendar/0,,152-168-0-0,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Please click on that, look at the schedule... and if for some obscure reason you're STILL right, please explain (using the schedule from that link as justification). Merci beaucoup! :)</p>

<p>-Jon</p>

<p>reverse that haha oops - whatever - 2 in one day ... kill me now</p>