Question about AP Chinese input method

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<p>I am reading College Board “AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam Overview” pdf document. In “Input Options for Typing Chinese Text” part, it says that “You may use the Microsoft Pinyin IME”.</p>

<p>But Microsoft PinYin IME has many kinds of settings(configurations): when you set the input method as Microsoft PinYin IME on your machine, there will be a menu bar, and from it you can select “Context Menu” ->”Properties”->Popup Properties dialog. In this dialog, there are lots of settings, like:

  1. Under “Input” mode, you can choose ‘Full pinyin’/’double pinyin’/’Incomplete input’, etc
  2. Under “Conversion mode”, you can choose ‘sentence’/‘word’
  3. Under “Candidate option”, you can select ‘Prompt step by step’
    So there will be many combinations. </p>

<p>I also read this link <a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
From page 5 to 6, it addressed how to config these settings for AP Chinese test:
Conversion mode” is ‘sentence’, and unselect ‘Prompt step by step’</p>

<p>My question is:
According to this setting：“Conversion mode” is ‘sentence’, and unselect ‘Prompt step by step’: After we input pinyin, it won’t give you all the prompt for all the characters with the same pinyin. For example, if you input “shi”, you cannot get a list of characters 1是,2十,3时，4事….It only wait you to hit space key and pop one Chinese word “是”, basically you cannot input十, 时, 事….</p>

<p>For those of you took AP Chinese, and will take AP Chinese, have you guys realized this?</p>

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<p>May I ask in this way:</p>

<p>For those who have taken AP Chinese: Did the input method give you a candidate list of Chinese characters to choose after you typing one pinyin?</p>

<p>Thanks,</p>

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<p>You have to hit the left arrow key after typing your phrase, and it will give you your list.</p>

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<p>daemOn:</p>

<p>Yes, we found it. So you took AP Chinese test, and this is your experience? </p>

<p>Thank you very much!</p>

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<p>I took the practice provided by CollegeBoard, which is essentially identical to the real test.</p>