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**The Exam** The AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam is not based on specific course content but instead attempts to evaluate levels of performance in the use of the language, both in understanding written and spoken Spanish. The AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam assesses students’ proficiencies in the Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational modes of communication. The exam is 3 hours long and includes both a 95-minute multiple-choice section and an 85-minute free-response section. The multiple-choice section accounts for half of the student’s exam grade, and the free-response section for the other half.
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//**__AP SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE EXAM FORMAT __**//

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 * AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam**

** __Section I. Multiple Choice - 50%__ ** The multiple-choice section, primarily assesses Interpretive Communication by asking students to identify main points, significant details, purpose, and intended audience of a variety of texts and to make inferences and predictions based on them. Some questions require students to show understanding of cultural or interdisciplinary information contained in the text. Each selection is accompanied by a preview that provides contextual information.

Answer multiple-choice questions ( 30 questions) related with a variety of authentic print materials (e.g., journalistic and literary texts, announcements, advertisements, letters, maps, and tables). identify main points, significant details, purpose, and intended audience of a variety of texts and to make inferences and predictions based on them.
 * Section I - Part A Interpretive Communication Print Text (Aprox 40 min) **
 * Description: ** Read several selections. Each selection is accompanied by a number of questions. For each question, choos the response that is best according to the selection and mark your answer on your answer sheet.
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 * __Section I- Part B Interpretative Communication: Print and Audio Texts (combined) ( Aprox 55 min) __ **
 * Description: **Consists of a variety of authentic audio materials, including interviews, podcasts, public service announcements, conversations, and brief presentations. This section is divided into two subsections. The first subsection includes audio texts that are paired with print materials; the second consists solely of audio texts. Students will have time to read the preview and skim the questions before listening to the audio. All audio texts will be played twice.
 * Activity: ** Answer multiple-choice questions. 35 questions

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Section II. Free Response - 50% ** __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">The free-response section, assesses Interpersonal and Presentational Communication by requiring students to produce written and spoken responses. __<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">**Part A - Writing - 25 % ( aprox. 70 min)** __ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Interpersonal Writing: Email Rely (12.5%)** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Objetive**: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The student engages in written interpersonal communications.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Description **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">: Read prompt
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Read and reply an email message 1 promp 15 min


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Presentational Writing: Persuasive Essay (aprox 55 min) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Description: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Read an articles - Listen to report - read and analyse a table or graphic
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Activity: **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Write a persuasive essay based on three sourses that present different viewpoints on a topic. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Students read an article, study a table or graphic, and listen twice to a related audio. Then they have 40 minutes to write an essay in response to a prompt using the information from all three sources to present and defend their own viewpoint. Students have access to the print sources and any notes they may take on the audio during the entire 40-minute writing period.


 * __<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Parte B - Speaking - 25% (aprox. 20 min) __**
 * __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Interpersonal Speaking— Simulated Conversation (12.5%) __**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Description: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Listen to message. Read outline of conversation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Respond to questions as part of a silulate conversation 5 response prompts. 20 seconds to respond to each.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Presentational Speaking— Cultura Comparison (12.5%) __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Description: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Make an oral presentation on a specifict topic
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Activity: ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Prepare and record a 2 minutes presentation in respond to a prompt on a cultural topic. In their presentation, students compare cultural features of their own community to those found in an area of the Spanish-speaking world with which they are familiar. Students are encouraged to cite examples from materials they’ve read, viewed, and listened to, as well as from personal experiences and observations.