How is AP Spanish Literature?

luna_luna
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:49:36 +0000

I took Spanish Lit last year as a senior - to tell you the truth, I thought it was one of the more demanding tests (and courses) I took. Check the reading list out - it’s super long. We started the reading list junior year in AP Spanish Lang (obviously at a much slower pace), but by test time, we still had a handful of texts that we hadn’t read. And how helpful it is to have read the texts? My memory is a little hazy, but I remember that one of the texts we read was in the reading comprehension section, and I think I wrote about the texts in two of the essays. But mainly its the practice of reading and analyzing poetry and prose, and writing decent essays really fast, that will help you on the test.

I thought it was one heck of an endurance test. But that being said, I really enjoyed the texts we read (a lot of classics, and a ton of stuff that’s just downright entertaining), so if you really like Spanish and have a lot of motivation, go for it.

I got a five, but don’t plan to continue studying Spanish in college.