tan2007

Wow this is interesting--I've never been to a board about an AP test I've taken that day.

So yeah, I thought everything went well until speaking. The thing that worries me, is that for one of the questions I lost like ten seconds because the buttons didn't press down all the way. It was doing fine when I practiced it, but meh. The thing making me worry less, is that after I got it to work I busted out the fastest French I have ever busted out in my life. So yeah

But the speaking part worries me in general because I think I did well with vocab. and pronunciation, but I had a lot of "uhms"... so yeah. I'm looking at the rubric from last year, so maybe I'll end up in the 3-4ish range for ones I stumbled on, mostly because I think the times when I did speak it was pretty fluent. I dunno though. I shouldn't have psyched myself out :S

But at least now I think that I'm less worried for my other AP tests, and now I'm familiar with my testing environment (it's the same class for pretty much all the tests). So... yeah.

blueducky

anyone know the curve for french?
all i know is that 43% ~ 3

tan2007

Originally posted by gblob331 here: The Thread for AP Exam Curves

"AP French Language:

Listening out of 42 questions: [#correct - (1/3)* # missed] * 0.9524
Reading out of 40 questions: [# correct - (1/3) * # missed] * 1
Word Fill-ins out of 15 questions: # correct * 0.5333
Verb Fill-ins out of 15 questions: # correct * 0.5333
Essay out of 9 points: score * 2.6667
Speaking out of 25 points: score * 1.6

Add all parts up, and this is your composite score

126-160 = 5
110-125 = 4
82-109 = 3
63-81 = 2
0 -62 = 1

Note: Test is curved by non-native speakers"

Kaznack

I totally wimped out in speaking. First of all, I was nervous I'd screw up the recording. Second, I took too much time in telling the story, and didn't even get to the end. It was some of my worst French speaking in recent memory.

tan2007

From what I've heard from my French teacher, you don't even need to get to the end to get a good grade. You could easily start describing one picture and then veer off to a side-story you made up. She knows this because she went to an AP conference and there they said that just as long students speak the best French they can, the whole story doesn't matter.

Now what would be really bad, would be just not saying anything at all for half of the time. But just as long as you spoke for the full time then your grade isn't going to be as bad as you think it is

blueducky

I don't know how you guys did,
but i was seriously amazed when i found out that i got a 4 on mine!
it was a miracle. i was expecting a 3 at the most...

purplehippo

I was hoping for a 4, but thought that I might get a 3. I was shocked (and thrilled) to discover that I got a 5. I guess the curve was nicer than I thought it would be.

blueducky

nice

i knew that i bombed the listening portion, so there was NO WAY i could have gotten a 5.