AP Spanish Language and Culture · Exam guides

AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam Guides

Free plain-language guides to the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam: how each section is scored, worked examples with weak and strong answers, and the mistakes that cost points. Start with the overview, then open the guide for the question you want to practice.

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• AP Spanish Language Free-Response Guide: The Essay, the Presentation and the Questions
  The argumentative essay, the project presentation and the recorded questions, with the official rubrics and a time plan.

Free-response and writing

• AP Spanish Language Argumentative Essay Explained: Using Three Sources to Earn 10 Points
  Using the two printed sources and the audio source, writing a position, answering a different view, and connectors, with Spanish examples.
• AP Spanish Language Project Presentation Explained: Three Minutes, Three Factors and the Three Ps
  Products, practices and perspectives, choosing three factors, the personal reference, and a three-minute plan.
• AP Spanish Language Recorded Questions Explained: Four Answers in 40 Seconds Each
  How the rubric scores them, an answer pattern that fits 40 seconds, and a sample answer in Spanish.
• AP Spanish Language Toolkit: Circumlocution, Connectors and Register
  Talking around a missing word, linking ideas, and choosing between tú and usted.

Multiple choice

• AP Spanish Language Multiple-Choice Guide: Listening and Reading Sets
  Eleven sets of five, listening and reading, with strategies for audio, charts and articles.

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