AP Spanish Literature
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Advanced Placement Spanish Literature (or AP Spanish Literature) is an examination offered by the College Board's Advanced Placement Program.
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[edit] The course
This course is based on improving skills in writing, and reading of advanced material in Spanish. The AP Spanish Literature course is designed to be comparable to a third-year College/University introduction to Hispanic literature course. Students concentrate on developing proficiency in reading and writing in preparation for the AP Spanish Literature examination. In addition, this course will emphasize mastery of linguistic competencies at a very high level of proficiency.
The course has a required reading list. [1]
[edit] The exam
The exam is divided into two sections with several parts. Section one is a section on reading analysis, and is completely multiple choice. 80 minutes are given for this section, and the grade received comprises 40% of the overall exam grade.
Section two is free-response, and requires three different essays to be written on prescribed topics. Essay #1 requires students to analyze a poem. Essay #2 is on the subject thematic analysis, requiring students to analyze themes from works in the course's required reading list. In Essay #3, students must answer free-response questions about an excerpt from a required reading or write an essay analyzing critical commmentary of a portion of the required reading. Each essay is worth 20% of the student's grade. Individual essays are graded based on both the accuracy and comprehensiveness of their content and their accuracy and fluency of language. Students are recommended to take 30 minutes given to complete the first essay, and 40 minutes given to complete the second and the third essays.
The test is approximately three hours in duration.
[edit] Grade distribution
In the 2006 administration 14,287 students took the exam from 1,415 schools. The mean score was a 2.83.
The grade distribution for 2006 was:
| Score | Percent |
|---|---|
| 5 | 11.8% |
| 4 | 20.9% |
| 3 | 29.2% |
| 2 | 15.1% |
| 1 | 23.1% |
