AP French Language Exam with Audio CD (REA) -The Best Test Prep for

ABOUT THIS BOOK This book provides a thorough review for the Advanced Placement (AP) French Language Examination written in a way that high school students will readily grasp and appreciate. REA's mission is to explain the subject matter in terms the student can understand and benefit from. The full-length practice exams included in this book help you get ready for the actual exam. Use them, along with the detailed explanations of answers, to help determine your strengths and weaknesses, and to prepare yourself to score well on exam day. ABOUT THE ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM The Advanced Placement program is designed to provide high school students with the opportunity to pursue college-level studies. The program consists of two components: an AP course and an AP exam. Students are expected to gain college-level skills and acquire college level knowledge of French through the AP course. Upon completion of the course, students take the AP exam in French Language. Test results are used to grant course credit and/or determine placement level in the subject when entering college. AP exams are offered every May. For more information contact the College Board at: AP Services P.O. Box 6671 Princeton, NJ 08541-6671 Phone: (609) 771-7300 or (888) 225-5427 Fax: (609) 530-0482 E-mail: apexams@info.collegeboard.org Web site: www.collegeboard.com ABOUT THE EXAM The AP French Language Exam is approximately two and a half hours long. It tests your ability to understand both written and spoken French. It also tests the ease and fluency with which you can respond in speaking and in writing. No dictionaries or reference materials are permitted during the exam. The test is divided into four sections. Each one represents a targeted skill area: listening comprehension, reading comprehension, writing ability, and speaking ability. Each of the four sections has the same value and therefore represents one-fourth of your total score. Multiple-Choice Test Sections Listening and reading skills are tested with multiple-choice questions. You will be expected to choose the correct answer from a field of four different possibilities for each multiple-choice question. You will mark your choice as A, B, C, or D on an answer grid that is provided in your test booklet. In the listening portion of the exam, you will hear a series of short exchanges between speakers. Each exchange is heard twice. While you listen, you will have four possible rejoinders in front of you. You are expected to pick the remark most likely to follow if the conversation were to continue. The listening section then goes on to present a series of longer dialogues. After each dialogue you will hear four or five questions. Each question is heard twice. You will answer the questions by choosing the best response among the four choices provided. You have about 25 minutes to complete the listening portion of the exam. You will then have approximately one hour to complete the reading segment of the test. The passages vary in length and subject matter. They usually come from French literature (mostly prose), newspaper or magazine articles, or virtually any nontechnical, nonfiction text. Each passage is followed by a series of questions for which you are given four possible answers. Again, you mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet in your text booklet. The writing and speaking segments of the test are not multiple-choice. They are both free response. Writing Test Sections There are three writing exercises. First you will be given a passage that has single words missing here andKnauer, Ellen Valtri is the author of 'AP French Language Exam with Audio CD (REA) -The Best Test Prep for', published 2008 under ISBN 9780738604268 and ISBN 0738604267.