How Can I Be Prepared for the AP Spanish Literature Multiple Choice?

An Overview 🔎

• There are 65 multiple-choice questions on the AP Spanish Lit exam. ✍
• They are broken up into Part A and Part B.
  • Part A: Interpretive Listening — Audio Texts 🔉
    • 15 questions ‼
    • 20 minutes 🕐
    • Worth 10% of your exam score
  • Part B: Reading Analysis — Print and Texts 📖
    • 50 questions ‼
    • 60 minutes 🕐
    • Worth 40% of your exam score
• The multiple-choice section is worth 50% of your overall AP score 🌓
  • The other 50% is the free-response section (4 questions).
• There are no deductions. You only get points for the questions you get correct. This means there's no difference between a question that's left blank and a question answered incorrectly!
  • Don't leave questions blank ✨

Skills Assessed on the MC Section 🤓

• 🤔 Skill 1: Analysis - analyzing and interpreting authentic literary and audio sources
  • read/listen to literary text
  • explain themes and their development in a text
  • explain literary elements, stylistic features, and implied meanings in a text
  • interpret the tone of a text
• 🗺 Skill 2: Cultural Context and Connections - making connections between a literary text and a non-literary text or an aspect of culture
  • explain relationships between perspectives of Spanish-speaking cultures
  • make connections between a text and its historical and social contexts
  • explain how texts reflect or challenge a culture
• 📚 Skill 3: Comparing Literary Texts - making connections between multiple literary texts
  • describe the structural and stylistic similarities and differences in two texts
  • compare the contents of two literary texts

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Types of Questions 📜

• Multiple Choice: Part A (10% of the exam, 15 questions in 20 mins) ⏰
  • Each of the questions in Part A of the multiple choice section is about authentic audio texts (it's a listening assessment) 🔉
  • You will listen to 3 audio recordings, and then answer the questions for each.
    • 4 of the 15 questions will be about an interview that you will listen to 💬
    • 4 of the 15 questions will be about a poem that you will listen to (the poem is NOT one on the required reading list) 📃
    • 7 of the 15 questions will be about a discussion or presentation on a literary topic 👩‍🏫
• Multiple Choice: Part B (40% of the exam, 50 questions in 60 mins) ⏰
  • Each of the questions in Part B of the multiple-choice section will ask you to analyze authentic texts—some will be from the required reading list, others will not 📖
    • 2 sets of 7-10 questions will ask you to analyze a required text from the course 📗
    • 2 sets of 7-10 questions will ask you to analyze a non-required text 📕
    • 1 set of 7-10 questions will ask you to compare literary texts—one required and one non-required 📗 📕
    • 1 set of 7-10 questions will ask you to analyze a literary critique of one of the required texts or authors 🗯

Tips and Tricks for MC Questions ☺

• As you know, AP Spanish Lit focuses heavily on the 38 required texts for the course.
• It's super important that you read and analyze all of these throughout the year, as they will show up on the MC section of the exam.

• Although only 15 of the 65 questions involve listening, you still want to make sure that you dedicate some time to listen to authentic audio 🤔
• Practice answering comprehension questions with each audio recording you listen to. If you can't find paired questions, make your own!

• There is NO penalty for wrong answers on the AP exam 🙌
• If you can't figure out the answer to a question, just mark a random letter and move on!
• It'll be okay, and you can still do well even if you get questions wrong 😉

• Make sure you're keeping an eye on the clock for Parts A and B of the multiple-choice section.
• Since you only have 15 minutes to answer the listening-based questions, make sure you use every minute wisely ⏰
• Read the questions as soon as you get the exam, and make notes so you know what to listen for when the audio begins 📝

• You have studied for the exam!
• Don't get stressed out if you can't remember something. You'll still do great! 💪

In Closing... 👍