BlueHouseMom

Has anyone who has taken the Spanish SL IB exam then taken the AP Spanish Language and done well with relatively little extra preparation? In other words, how well does preparing for the IB Spanish SL prepare a person for the AP exam?

aigiqinf

If you can speak and write Spanish pretty well (and of course read), you would have a decent chance of performing well on the AP exam.

amaster008

I'm in IB and I'm also taking IB Spanish SL but I have heard from my spanish teacher (who has gotten the majority of our class 6's and 7's on the SL exam and also teaches AP) that both tests teach drastically different things. IB focuses on more of the language itself while the Spanish would focus on more literature and other aspects that IB doesn't have. With more prep it is possible, but the direction that IB SL Spanish takes you doesn't really help on the AP test that much.

Unless you are planning to take HL Spanish, the AP test would not be reccomended (unless you speak and read spanish fluently, which that is a totally different story)

BlueHouseMom

Thanks. The college D plans to attend uses AP for placement. She was hoping to avoid the first day of school placement exam after a summer of little Spanish instruction. We were just hoping that there would be similarity in the tests as she is prepping for SL Spanish exam in May and could just take both. Sounds like this is probably not the case. That would have been too easy! Thanks for the insight. Anyone else with experience please chime in...

vosamim

? AP Spanish language didnt focus on lit, AP Spanish Lit focuses on lit. The AP Spanish lang test for the most part was rather difficult due to the fact that most of the material on the exam was from Spain and presented somewhat of a problem for me (phonology, lexical terms, etc..). If you learned Spanish with a good emphasis plcaed on Spain Spaish or Spanish is your native language, you should do well regardless. But for me, non-native speaker and using primarily mexican and argentine spanish, it was pretty hard to understand the listening. Nonetheless, i got a 4 on the exam; my essays and grammar were spectacular!

lce

a word of advice, just write down a few things before you take the oral part, that way you can have your notes right in front of you to speak off of