<p>How are you all preparing for the AP Spanish Exam? Are there any books that help a lot? </p>
<p>:eek: HELPPP!!!!!! :eek:</p>
<p>I'm currently using Cliffsnotes. DON'T GET IT! Gah... It's awful. First of all, I bought it without realizing it was the 2003 version. And the test changed this year............. I was so ...not happy... </p>
<p>Others on this board recommend Barron's.</p>
<p>The material in Cliffs is well enough I suppose. I sometimes wish they'd stop referring me to the Appendix or telling me the answer is this because of some vocabulary... then not tell me the meaning of the vocab in english, leaving me to flip through the back dictionary. But I suppose if they included such detail in each explanation, the book would get be super-long and repetitive. Mmm... there are basically 2 audio discs, 2 samples of each section in the beginning, a diagnostic test, and 3 practice tests, an appendix full of useful stuff, and a vocab thing. I'd normally recommend you get one with more practice probs, but with the test being... Wednesday... Cliffs will do fine.</p>
<p>Just don't be stupid like me... Check the date and make sure the year says 2005. lol</p>
<p>it might help to read over "1001 Pitfalls in Spanish" by Barron's before the test to know about the tricky grammatical concepts that trip students...it's a short book that can be easily read in a day or two but packed with grammar.</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>BTW, Do u think that the Princeton Review (2004-2005 edition) would be worth going thru?</p>
<p>How many other APs are you taking? If you have the time, then by all means, study. Although the issue of which prep book is better give me headaches, I feel that getting SOME review (from a reasonably reliable source) must be better than no review at all.</p>
<p>Evvy, I just finished PR myself. Thoroughly disappointed with it. Not nearly enough exercises and half of the very tiny book is devoted to the AP Spanish Lit exam. Personally, I'm having a much better time with Barrons. I'd use that -- it has much more info contained in it, practice CDs for the speaking, and seems to be more challenging.</p>
<p>Smazn, I just bought 1001 Pitfalls. It looks very very promising. Too bad the test is on Wednesday. I don't know how I'm going to read it in just a couple days.</p>
<p>I don't know; I am rather screwed. <em>bites nails</em></p>
<p>I just cracked the spine on my PR book. I have only taken the Euro exam before, and am taking Eng Lang on Monday, so I know nothing about APs in general since my school doesn't have AP courses.</p>
<p>SOOO. Yikes. Especially w.r.t. oral.</p>
<p>yea i'm not gonna lie....the speaking section is going to be the death of me.......</p>
<p>is this for spanish language or spanish literature?</p>
<p>Language. Literature is for people we don't want to talk to.</p>
<p>i bought the REA book... it seems to be decent. Plenty of review and thorough explanations. It comes with three practice tests, too. I had a little difficulty because the speakers on the CD sound like they have lisps. I don't mean 'eating their s's" either; it wath a full on lithp. Nothing wrong with that, it just took a few seconds longer to figure out what they were saying.</p>
<p>And yeah, speaking is going to be awful. Anyone know what the percentage generally is that you need to get a 5?</p>
<p>ughhhhhhhhhhh..........i just want wednesday to come so i can get this test done and over with....</p>
<p>(btw, bought the barrons...helps ALOT! Thanks!!!)</p>
<p>No no no no no no no. Wednesday Wednesday go away. Come on back another day. Practice test today... and teacher's going to count it as part of final grade. </p>
<p>ipqtwjpfojffa;lsvmajghparogja;sdfas!!!</p>
<p>Seahorse_05, I was told that you can get 75% of the exam correct and still get a 5. So everyone should take heart in the fact that you don't have to do perfectly to do well! </p>
<p>SchoolDuh0610, good luck on your practice exam!</p>
<p>The lisp is an accent from a certain part of Spain, I think...we learned about it awhile back, so I don't remember exactly where it was from.</p>
<p>I don't have any prep books, but my teacher has prepped us pretty well all along. I don't really know what else I can do but study the workbook/textbook we use, which is a college-level book that's pretty exhaustive.</p>
<p>spanish is gonna spank me.</p>
<p>phuck! i hope i can get a 3 or 4 with doing well on the orals and maybe the essay... i am not sure what to write about cause i have crappy ideas.</p>
<p>Home from practice test. Teacher was using one of the older versions since he says it still works well enough.</p>
<p>Thank goodness there will be no more cloze passages! I really really failed that part. The only thing I failed worse (or is it better?) in was narration. 5 minutes... Who in the world can remember that much info?</p>
<p>Not looking forward to Tuesday... when we get back the results. Then again, it'll probably be better than Wednesday.</p>
<p>Will we be tested on the vosotros forms?</p>
<p>I'm bumping the request for a scale with the percentages needed for the each of the different grades... that would be really useful right about now.</p>