<p>AP’s I guess are much harder because there is an essay portion I believe and listening as well. I am not a native speaker, but I speak both of them as my foreign languages. Is it hard/easy to get 5?</p>
<p>Hard. But, you should be able to get at least a 3, if you are well-prepared. That should be enough for a reasonable placement in FL in college. You may not want to place very high in the levels, because those classes in college tend to be quite difficult to take in Freshman year. Or, you might be able to place out of the FL requirement, if there is one, and if you don’t want to continue to take your language.</p>
<p>There’s a speaking part too.</p>
<p>AP Span has a short essay, a long essay, several listening sections (including a lecture that is 5 mins), reading sections, fill-in-the-blank things, and a small speech part and a pretend conversation part. I think the speaking and the listening (if you took the SATII without listening) make the test MUCH more difficult. And it’s a lot longer, so that makes it more difficult as well.</p>
<p>You should have taken at least 4 years of high school language in each- more, if possible.</p>
<p>It depends what kind of learner you are. The SAT 2 is strictly filling in blanks with tenses and some reading comp, while the AP test has reading comp, listening, writing, and speaking. You have a lot more opportunity to redeem yourself and be creative.
… I am non-native speaker and got a 630 on the Spanish SATII (44th percentile)…but a 5 on the AP test.</p>