AP Japanese Scores?

anniemac
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:39:44 +0000

I taught myself basic stuff from watching movies in 7th and 8th grade. I learned basic kanji and kana to understand things in the movies too…

Then I enrolled in Honors Japanese 1 in freshman year. Which was basically “do math homework and sleep” time. Since Japanese is such a small program at my school, the honors and regulars were mixed, and I knew most all of first semester.

I went into the summer intending to take an accelerated chemistry course to get some free periods in sophomore year. I was WAY too stressed out because the course started the day after finals ended. So my family and I found a summer abroad program in Japan. I went for 7 weeks, and studied relatively hard, though the immersion was key.

My school has one giant log up the asses of its administration, so I had a lot of difficulty convincing the language dept. chair that I was qualified to even take the tests to move up 2 years… But eventually they let me take them, and I passed the semester finals for years 2 and 3 in the first week of school, and they let me move up to AP Japanese 4.

I studied for the test. I didn’t ever feel stressed out in the class. It was basically an easy A… just watch lots of dramas and movies… know the kanji on the AP list… The college board samples show you EXACTLY how the test is formatted. They tell you EXACTLY what type of problems are on the test.

Good luck all :D