<p>Are there any possible downsides to testing-out of a single foreign language class out of 4 years of it?</p>
<p>eg, if I actually take 3 years of Spanish and then test out of Spanish 4</p>
<p>I couldn’t imagine why there would be. Colleges usually like 4 years of a foreign language, but if your third year is the equivalent course to what most people take as the fourth year then it’d be just as good.</p>
<p>No I mean, like if I actually take 3 years of Spanish and then test out of Spanish 4.</p>
<p>It depends on how you study and on how well taught the class would have been. This year I’m studying Spanish III on my own, and the downsides are that I don’t get to hear dumbed-down spoken Spanish (as opposed to Spanish TV or something, which is too fast for me to understand) and I don’t have any opportunities to speak Spanish to another person.
Also, the foreign-language classes at my school require you to learn specific vocabulary words, so I had to get the textbook they use and study the words they want. I didn’t have to do that when I tested out of math classes, because math is less variable (stupid pun intended).
There’s no downside as far as college admissions…the classes I tested out of look the same on my transcript as the ones I took the regular way.</p>
<p>Do you speak Spanish well enough to do that? If you can pass the AP exam already, you should try to do it this year.</p>
<p>@halyconheather:</p>
<p>Thank you, that was very helpful (:</p>