<p>I am just taking Spanish for placement. Did anyone look at a prep book; is it worth look over or should I just look at like my spanish textbook and study?</p>
<p>i thought the prep book was pretty useless except for the practice tests</p>
<p>I used the Barrons SAT2 Practice Book...YEs Barron's usually sucks royally, but I only bought it because the author of the Barron's review makes the best AP Language review book -- Jose M. Diaz, my Spanish hero! So get the Barrons practice book, the practice tests are worth it. There are plenty of them. The review in there I found useless but the practice tests are pretty accurate...I got 770-800 on all the practices and got a 790 on the real SAT2 Test.</p>
<p>5 + 790 = <3 !
So definitely get a workbook, I think the best thing is to do practice tests and then keep exposing yourself to Spanish (TV, newspapers, radio, etc)...Studying from the textbook doesn't get you very far once you know the basics.</p>
<p>Um, Barron's is completely inaccurate. I took 3 or 4 practice tests in the book and got 700-750 on every single one (about a 730, I think). So, as a result I went into the test hoping for that score... and what do I get? A crummy 650! And it's the only score below 700 I have, but since I only took 2 SAT IIs, it counts... thanks a lot, barron's.</p>
<p>PS: I've been in AP Spanish 4 years, took 2 years of spanish before that, and have never gotten below an A- in any quarter. I hate barron's. any better books, so I can prep to retake the test in jan and rush?</p>
<p>Fine fine...Use Jose M. Diaz's AP Spanish Book..</p>
<p>Has no practice tests and doesn't come with listening, but it's an excellent workbook--totally indispensable for me at least. Ask your teacher for answers. Really, if you use this book you will become almost fluent. If you're looking for practice tests, sorry, can't point you anywhere but Barron's.</p>
<p>By the way, you guys who took the exam. Do they use vosotros, ustedes, or neither, do they use ir or irse, and do they use hubiera or hubiese?</p>
<p>hubiera</p>
<p>ir and irse are different...</p>
<p>i dont recall any vosotros.</p>
<p>go with the barrons..take all 10 practice tests and review what you got wrong..you should be fine</p>
<p>I got an 800</p>
<p>I took it. 650 first time, 710 second time. Crap. But anyways, I found I was scoring in the 500's on Kaplan's tests since they had a lot more vocab and I'm really good at grammar, hence I scored 700-750 on PR, which focused much more on grammar. There wasn't any vosotros, but for subjunctive, they used the -ra form sometimes (I use the other one...). If it wasn't for the bloody fill in the blank passages, I woulda scored 750+. Those are brutal and worthless. I wish they had an essay like the SAT!</p>
<p>Good luck. 650+ is pretty much competency.</p>
<p>the fill in the blank has some verbs and stuff. i saw lots of irregular verbs when i took it.</p>
<p>I also got an 800!! really happy about it:)
I used the Barron's book...the practice test were quite good, in my opinion. I didn't study much for the test, though...decided to rely on my previous knowledge.
one thing that kinda confused me on the test was the word t</p>
<p>Ahh I hate the stupid spanish sat ii. I took 2 practice tests and got an 800 on both, so I'm like, "Oh this will be easy" especially since I spent the summer in Spain. And ahh, it was so freakin hard! I got a 680 the first time, and then retook it for a 730. I guess as long as it's in the 700s, I'm happy, but seriously, I'm practically fluent, they just seemed to use vocabulary I wasn't very familiar with. My teacher is an idiot though, that's probably why my vocab is limited to certain areas.</p>
<p>im a native speaker...easy **** :D</p>
<p>I'm not a native speaker...still easy:)...yeah, the whole bragging stuff feels good...</p>
<p>princeton review test book any good?</p>
<p>to be honest, i dont think any review books are good. when i was studying for the ap exams i bought so many...and i didnt think they helped much. study notes from school. save ur money.</p>
<p>yeah the books don't really help. i think spanish is prob. the hardest to study for: if you don't know it, you need more than 2 weeks to really really improve.</p>
<p>My biggest suggestion is STUDY VOCABULARY. In my stupid spanish class, all we ever do is this weird cultura stuff, we never actually learn any type of useful vocabulary and although i do spanish stuff outside of school, it wasn't enough for the vocab on the test.</p>
<p>yea, there is lots of vocabulary in the test. in the passages you must know what alot of words mean to be able to answer the questions</p>
<p>I used Kaplan the night before just for the practice test. For the most part, there is not a whole lot you can do to study for spanish. It's not exactly something you can cram in one night because you won't know what vocab to expect or what you're going to see in the reading sections. I'd suggest taking a practice test just to see where you are as far timing and familiarizing yourself with the format. It really depends how rigorous your spanish curriculum is currently and how well you can read the language. I took the test after taking AP Spanish so the passages and vocabuluary seemed easy in comparison. I think I could've taken it after Spanish III as well and still have done okay. My advice though would be just to take a practice test or two and maybe review common verbs and their definitions the night before. Spanish is cumulative and can't be learned in one night, so hopefully you will be fairly comfortable with reading and that sort of thing before you begin studying. Good luck!</p>