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[xbanana]

did anybody get them get?
if so what region are you from?
i am quite anxious, yet scared!
yeahh. waiting for them. living in socal.

[dustbunny]

5 on chinese, actually not what I expected. I totally f**ked myself up in the oral part (I wrote a whole spiel about it in another AP test thread) but I guess it turned out alright! The test asked to talk about a city in China and its significance etc etc--what comes to mind? BEIJING RIGHT? Except I was a complete idiot and tried to talk about Shanghai. And by try I mean completely failed; I assumed I'd get a 4 or 3 depending on how well the fobs did. IM SO HAPPY :D :D :D

[Eryi]

5 on chinese, actually not what I expected. I totally f**ked myself up in the oral part (I wrote a whole spiel about it in another AP test thread) but I guess it turned out alright! The test asked to talk about a city in China and its significance etc etc--what comes to mind? BEIJING RIGHT? Except I was a complete idiot and tried to talk about Shanghai. And by try I mean completely failed; I assumed I'd get a 4 or 3 depending on how well the fobs did. IM SO HAPPY :D :D :D

I have a question.. I looked at the 2008 exam & I found it extremely difficult to answer the short responses in 20 seconds.
I require time to think about what to say because if I don't.. I'd most likely stutter.. and stuttering will probably take up the entire 20 seconds.
How'd you do it?

[dustbunny]

I have a question.. I looked at the 2008 exam & I found it extremely difficult to answer the short responses in 20 seconds.
I require time to think about what to say because if I don't.. I'd most likely stutter.. and stuttering will probably take up the entire 20 seconds.
How'd you do it?

I think you do get time to think before you speak, depending on how much depth or content the response requires. I'm pretty sure the lengthier responses such as the 'speech' ones you are given 2 minutes to prepare.

I'm trying to remember what happens with the short ones...I think you just have to wing it. The point is to test your conversational speaking ability I think, so I would just suggest you talk at a slower pace than normal. That way, you'll be able to say things calmly and kill some time instead of finishing what you have to say and having to sit there and wait idly. I remember one of the questions was in an interview format about applying to become a waiter, and the question was something like "what are your available hours" and I said the first thing that came to mind: I'm available at all hours. and then I had nothing else to say lol so I just had to watch the clock countdown while I almost clawed out my eyes from nervousness.

Don't worry, I stuttered really badly too on my exam x_x My voice actually shook because when I was trying to bs my way through talking about Shanghai I was like..SHIT I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IM SAYING THIS MAKES NO SENSE.

did you take the AP chinese class or are you just doing it from uh having a chinese background..?