<p>I am an incoming senior and I am planning on taking AP Spanish next year. In my junior year, I took Spanish 3. I have always had very high A´s in Spanish and I have no issues whatsoever and I can manage my grade while ditching the class all the time. I took the SAT subject test for it as well and I received a 650. </p>
<p>The problem is that I may not want to put up with the AP class because I do not want to have any work in the class and I feel as if there will be a lot of work and things that I have to do. In Spanish 3 there is little work so I was able to ditch the class all the time while still maintain a high grade. However I fear that if I ditch class and keep cutting in AP then I may suffer. Also, my Spanish is much more colloquial as I have primarily learned the speaking outside of the class instead of formally written and I heard that you read literature and all this crap in AP. </p>
<p>What do you even do in AP? Is it a lot of work? Because I am a hard working student (believe me!) but with Spanish I am quite lazy and I WOULD LIKE TO STAY THAT WAY. I want to make my senior year AS LIGHT AS POSSIBLE WHILE STILL TAKING AP CLASSES. Is AP Spanish a bad class to be in if you are lazy? Does it give a lot of work? I realize that it depends on the teacher, but is it like APUSH or something? Do you read a lot of books or do writing or is it more speaking?</p>
<p>I am AP Calculus AP Biology AP Physics as well, so will this class interfere with the others? I hope not.</p>
<p>Thanks. </p>
<p>I took AP Spanish this past year and can assure you it was a joke. It was almost a waste of time for me. We did almost nothing and watched a movie about every week. The hardest things are the audios and reading passages, but if you’re a good writer and speaker you’ll have no problem getting an A in that class without doing work. The AP test is a little difficult though. </p>
<p>@engineering2015 How did you do in the AP exam? The problem is the new syllabus last year that some teachers may have no idea how to teach it. My D’s teacher assigned some group presentation projects and worked on essays a lot. Near the end of the semester, she gave the students some links to online audio clips to practice. The teacher took the test herself last year to experience the new content/format last year. It was not really a hard class but it did have some work to do both in class and at home. At the end, my D got a 5 in the test as a non-native speaker and solely learned Spanish from school.</p>
<p>@billcsho All we did to prepare for the exam was take practice passages. I always got A+'s in advanced Spanish before AP without putting in much effort so maybe that’s why I thought AP was kind of a waste of time. My score is still processing, but I had technical problems with the audios and for that reason I think my score dropped to either a 2 or 3. Most likely 3. </p>
<p>It seems your school has very easy curve. My D was struggling to maintain A in the AP class. It is not as easy as you said. Which state are you in? The AP score should be out for most area except for the upper east coast and Hawaii. However, you may use an appropriate location proxy to login to check now.</p>
<p>@billcsho No, my school does not have curves for any class. Spanish has just always been really easy for me. Online it says my score is still in process so should I be worried? I think they might’ve not scored it at all because I heard that if one section is messed up then they can’t score the test as a whole and my microphone was malfunctioning which messed up my conversational speaking. </p>
<p>The score should be out, although not everyone has access to it due to the regional release schedule. If it is showing still in process, then there is something wrong.
I don’t necessarily mean your school uses a curve for grading. I just mean your school give easy grades.</p>
<p>I’m in Illinois so everyone got their scores today, but my score says it’s still in process. So something went wrong?</p>
<p>@billcsho my school considers a 90 to be an A and I ended up with a 94 in AP Spanish but it’s not like they give us the A automatically… No high schools give students “easy grades”. Just because your daughter struggled getting an A in the class does not exactly mean it was a hard class. </p>
<p>That is what you said:
My D need to put in effort to maintain an A grade in class, but she got a 5 in the exam. If one get an A in class but a 2 or 3 in the exam, the adcom will consider the school gives easy grades.</p>
<p>@billcsho oh and btw I got a 4 on the exam even with my school giving “easy grades”</p>
<p>@engineering 2015 Good for you. There are 24.1% getting 5 and 35.1% getting 4 this year. Scoring 4 is great considering 2/3 of the students taking the test are some sort of native speakers.</p>