AP Foreign Lang Exams Mean Nothing

doubleslit
Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:49:09 +0000

So I got all my AP scores, and I’m very surprised by my Spanish Lang score. I got a 5 on it, and I cannot maintain a real conversation in Spanish, nor can I understand TV shows, movies and songs without Spanish lyrics or subtitles for me to read along with. So no, college board, I’m not extremely proficient in the Spanish language.

If it’s this easy for a non-native speaker to get a 5 (since I never studied or practiced outside the class for it), then I cast doubt on the legitimacy of the test. The college I’m attending won’t take AP credit, but I know a lot of schools accept AP Foreign Language tests to fulfill foreign lang requirements, and that means college students will graduate without any real grasp of that language.