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'''Advanced Placement (AP) Spanish Literature''' is a [[high school]] course and examination offered by the [[College Board|College Board's]] [[Advanced Placement Program]]. |
'''Advanced Placement''' ('''AP''') '''Spanish Literature and Culture''' (also known as '''AP Spanish Literature''', '''AP Spanish Lit''' or '''AP SpLit''') is a [[high school]] course and examination offered by the [[College Board|College Board's]] [[Advanced Placement Program]]. |
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==The course== |
==The course== |
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This course is based on improving skills in |
This course is based on improving skills in written Spanish and critical reading of advanced [[Spanish literature|Spanish]] and [[Latin American literature]].<ref> |
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[http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/51069.html Course Requirements] at collegeboard.com, retrieved on October 27, 2007 |
[http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/51069.html Course Requirements] at collegeboard.com, retrieved on October 27, 2007 |
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[http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/ap/students/spanish/ap-cd-spanish-0708.pdf Spanish Course Description], retrieved on October 27, 2007 |
[http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/ap/students/spanish/ap-cd-spanish-0708.pdf Spanish Course Description] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080326081051/http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/ap/students/spanish/ap-cd-spanish-0708.pdf |date=March 26, 2008 }}, retrieved on October 27, 2007 |
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</ref> It is typically taught as a Spanish V or VI course. The AP Spanish Literature course is designed to be comparable to a third-year college/university introductory Hispanic literature course. Students concentrate on developing proficiency in reading and writing in preparation for the AP Spanish Literature examination. In addition, this course emphasizes mastery of linguistic competencies at a very high level of proficiency. |
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The course has a required reading list |
The course has a required reading list that draws from a variety of sources, including such well-known authors and poets as [[Federico García Lorca]], [[Miguel de Cervantes]], [[Tirso de Molina]], [[Gabriel García Márquez]], [[Alfonsina Storni]], [[Juan Rulfo]], [[Isabel Allende]] and [[Miguel de Unamuno]], as well as a miscellany of lesser-known short stories, poems, and novels. A complete list of the [http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/219542.html readings] is regulated annually by the College Board. The course is meant to be taught entirely in Spanish, though [http://siempreleer.blogspot.com/ English translations] of the stories are often common resources for students.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/spanish_lit/reading.html |title=AP: Spanish Literature<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2007-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127174050/http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/spanish_lit/reading.html |archive-date=2007-01-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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Each AP Theme has several contexts. The theme of Societies in Contact has five contexts: Assimilation and Marginalization, Diversity, Socioeconomic Divisions, Imperialism, and Nationalism and Regionalism. Time and Space has six contexts: ''Carpe Diem'' and ''Memento Mori'', The Individual in Their Environment, Nature and the Environment, The Relationship Between Time and Space, Linear Time and Circular Time, and Trajectory and Transformation. The Duality of Being has four contexts: Construction of Reality, Spirituality and Religion, Public and Private Image, and Introspection. The Construction of Gender has five contexts: Male Chauvinism (''Machismo''), Social Relations, Patriarchal System, Sexualization, and Tradition and Rupture. Interpersonal Relationships has six contexts: Friendship and Hostility, Love and Contempt, Communication or Lack of Communication, The Individual and the Community, Power Relations, and Family Relations. Finally, Literary Creation has four contexts: Intertextuality, Self-conscious Literature, The Creative Process, and Text and Its Contexts. |
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==The exam== |
==The exam== |
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The exam is divided into two sections with several parts. Section I, consisting of 65 multiple-choice questions, is split into two parts. Part A (15 questions) is the listening component, which includes a twice-recited poem, a recording of an interview with an author, and a presentation concerning a topic that relates to the course. Part B (50 questions) is reading comprehension based on a wide variety of works, including a literary criticism and selections from works that are not on the required reading list. Eighty minutes are given for the entire section.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2009.html|title = AP Spanish Literature Exam|date = 10 July 2006}}</ref> |
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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. |
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Section II is free-response, containing two short-answer questions and two longer essays. The first question is based on an excerpt from a work on the required reading list, and students must name the author, identify the time period, and, most importantly, elaborate on the theme presented in the passage (15 minutes). The second question asks students to read an excerpt from a work on the required reading list and compare the theme presented to that of an accompanying piece of artwork (15 minutes). The third question tests students' ability to link a piece of literature on the required reading list to the greater genre or movement to which it belongs (35 minutes). Finally, the fourth question directs students to analyze the literary techniques in two excerpts, one of which is from a work on the required reading list, that are used to convey a shared theme (35 minutes). One hundred minutes are allotted for this section.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-spanish-literature-and-culture/about-the-exam|title = AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam – AP Students}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2009.html|title = AP Spanish Literature Exam|date = 10 July 2006}}</ref> |
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Section two is free-response, and requires three different essays to be written in Spanish 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 commentary 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. |
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In all, the test is 180 minutes (3 hours) in duration. |
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==Grade distribution== |
==Grade distribution== |
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The grade distributions since 2010 were: |
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In the 2007 administration 15,321 students took the exam from 1,491 schools. The mean score was a 2.84. |
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The grade distribution for 2007 was: |
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!2010<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/2010_SpanishLit_Score_Dist.pdf|title=AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global|date=2010|website=The College Board|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> |
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!2011<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/2011_SpanishLit_Score_Dist.pdf|title=AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global|date=2011|website=The College Board|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> |
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!2012<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap12_spanish_lit_ScoringDist.pdf|title=AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global|date=2012|website=The College Board|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> |
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!2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap13_spanish_lit_ScoringDist.pdf|title=AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global|date=2013|website=The College Board|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> |
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!2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap14-spanish-lit-score-dist.pdf|title=AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global|date=2014|website=The College Board|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> |
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!2015<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap15-spanish-lit-score-dist.pdf|title=AP Spanish Literature and Culture Student Score Distribution - Global|date=2015|website=The College Board|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> |
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!2016<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap16_spanish_lit_scoring_global.pdf|title=AP Spanish Literature and Culture Student Score Distribution - Global|date=2016|website=The College Board|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> |
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!2017<ref>"[https://reports.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/Student-Score-Distributions-2017_1.pdf Student Score Distributions]" (PDF). Retrieved June 3, 2024.</ref> |
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!2018<ref>"[https://reports.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/Student-Score-Distributions-2018_1.pdf Student Score Distributions]" (PDF). Retrieved June 3, 2024.</ref> |
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!2019<ref>{{Cite web|title=Student Score Distributions|url=https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/research/2019/Student-Score-Distributions-2019.pdf|access-date=2022-07-07}}</ref> |
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!2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=STUDENT SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS|url=https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/research/2020/Student-Score-Distributions-2020.pdf|access-date=2021-06-09}}</ref> |
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!2021<ref>{{Cite web|title=STUDENT SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS|url=https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/research/2021/2021-ap-student-score-distributions.pdf|access-date=2022-07-07}}</ref> |
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!2022<ref>"[https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-score-distributions-by-subject-2022.pdf Student Score Distributions]" (PDF). Retrieved October 1, 2023.</ref> |
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!2023<ref>"[https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-score-distributions-by-subject-2023.pdf Student Score Distributions]" (PDF). Retrieved June 3, 2024.</ref> |
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!2024<ref>"[https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/score-distributions 2024 AP Score Distributions]". Retrieved July 8, 2024.</ref> |
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|5 |
!|5 |
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|11.5% |
|11.5% |
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|11.6% |
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|11.5% |
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|10.8% |
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|9.9% |
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|10.0% |
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|8.8% |
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|9.6% |
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|9.7% |
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|9.5% |
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|17.6% |
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|7.8% |
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|8.1% |
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|8.5% |
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|9% |
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|4 |
!|4 |
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|20.5% |
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|20.7% |
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|21.5% |
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|28.2% |
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|25.5% |
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|24.9% |
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|24.3% |
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|26.1% |
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|24.5% |
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|25.0% |
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|18.6% |
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|20.8% |
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|22.8% |
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|23.3% |
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|23% |
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|3 |
!|3 |
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|28.6% |
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|28.9% |
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|28.9% |
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|37.6% |
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|39.1% |
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|38.1% |
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|36.9% |
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|37.6% |
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|36.1% |
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|37.7% |
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|38.8% |
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|36.3% |
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|33.4% |
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|35.6% |
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|34% |
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|2 |
!|2 |
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|16.6% |
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|15.9% |
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|16.5% |
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|18.2% |
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|19.5% |
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|20.6% |
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|22.5% |
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|20.4% |
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|21.7% |
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|21.4% |
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|20.7% |
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|25.5% |
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|23.8% |
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|22.5% |
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|22% |
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!|1 |
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|22.7% |
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|22.8% |
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|21.6% |
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|5.2% |
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|6.0% |
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|6.4% |
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|7.6% |
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|6.4% |
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|8.0% |
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|6.3% |
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|4.3% |
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|9.6% |
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|11.9% |
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|10.1% |
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|12% |
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|- |
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!|% of Scores 3 or Higher |
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|60.7% |
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|61.3% |
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|61.8% |
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|76.6% |
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|74.5% |
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|73.0% |
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|70.0% |
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|73.2% |
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|70.3% |
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|72.3% |
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|75.1% |
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|64.9% |
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|64.2% |
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|67.4% |
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|66% |
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!|Mean |
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|2.82 |
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|2.82 |
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|2.85 |
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|3.21 |
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|3.14 |
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|3.12 |
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|3.04 |
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|3.12 |
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|3.06 |
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|3.10 |
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|3.25 |
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|2.92 |
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|2.91 |
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|2.98 |
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|2.95 |
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!|Standard Deviation |
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|1.31 |
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|1.31 |
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|1.30 |
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|1.03 |
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|1.03 |
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|1.05 |
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|1.06 |
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|1.04 |
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|1.08 |
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|1.04 |
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|1.10 |
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|1.07 |
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|1.12 |
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|1.10 |
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|1.13 |
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!|Number of Students |
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|17,136 |
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|18,103 |
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|17,919 |
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|18,785 |
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|20,118 |
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|21,755 |
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|24,061 |
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|25,834 |
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|27,451 |
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|29,345 |
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|24,137 |
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|21,796 |
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|23,009 |
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|22,860 |
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|23.6% |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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*[http://collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_spanlit.html?spanlit AP Spanish Literature at CollegeBoard.com] |
*[http://collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_spanlit.html?spanlit AP Spanish Literature at CollegeBoard.com] |
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*[http://es.scribd.com/my_document_collections/3517406 Spanish Literature Advanced Placement (AP) 2012 readings]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} |
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Latest revision as of 03:58, 30 August 2024
Advanced Placement (AP) Spanish Literature and Culture (also known as AP Spanish Literature, AP Spanish Lit or AP SpLit) is a high school course and examination offered by the College Board's Advanced Placement Program.
The course
[edit]This course is based on improving skills in written Spanish and critical reading of advanced Spanish and Latin American literature.[1][2] It is typically taught as a Spanish V or VI course. The AP Spanish Literature course is designed to be comparable to a third-year college/university introductory Hispanic literature course. Students concentrate on developing proficiency in reading and writing in preparation for the AP Spanish Literature examination. In addition, this course emphasizes mastery of linguistic competencies at a very high level of proficiency.
The course has a required reading list that draws from a variety of sources, including such well-known authors and poets as Federico García Lorca, Miguel de Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, Gabriel García Márquez, Alfonsina Storni, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende and Miguel de Unamuno, as well as a miscellany of lesser-known short stories, poems, and novels. A complete list of the readings is regulated annually by the College Board. The course is meant to be taught entirely in Spanish, though English translations of the stories are often common resources for students.[3]
Each AP Theme has several contexts. The theme of Societies in Contact has five contexts: Assimilation and Marginalization, Diversity, Socioeconomic Divisions, Imperialism, and Nationalism and Regionalism. Time and Space has six contexts: Carpe Diem and Memento Mori, The Individual in Their Environment, Nature and the Environment, The Relationship Between Time and Space, Linear Time and Circular Time, and Trajectory and Transformation. The Duality of Being has four contexts: Construction of Reality, Spirituality and Religion, Public and Private Image, and Introspection. The Construction of Gender has five contexts: Male Chauvinism (Machismo), Social Relations, Patriarchal System, Sexualization, and Tradition and Rupture. Interpersonal Relationships has six contexts: Friendship and Hostility, Love and Contempt, Communication or Lack of Communication, The Individual and the Community, Power Relations, and Family Relations. Finally, Literary Creation has four contexts: Intertextuality, Self-conscious Literature, The Creative Process, and Text and Its Contexts.
The exam
[edit]The exam is divided into two sections with several parts. Section I, consisting of 65 multiple-choice questions, is split into two parts. Part A (15 questions) is the listening component, which includes a twice-recited poem, a recording of an interview with an author, and a presentation concerning a topic that relates to the course. Part B (50 questions) is reading comprehension based on a wide variety of works, including a literary criticism and selections from works that are not on the required reading list. Eighty minutes are given for the entire section.[4]
Section II is free-response, containing two short-answer questions and two longer essays. The first question is based on an excerpt from a work on the required reading list, and students must name the author, identify the time period, and, most importantly, elaborate on the theme presented in the passage (15 minutes). The second question asks students to read an excerpt from a work on the required reading list and compare the theme presented to that of an accompanying piece of artwork (15 minutes). The third question tests students' ability to link a piece of literature on the required reading list to the greater genre or movement to which it belongs (35 minutes). Finally, the fourth question directs students to analyze the literary techniques in two excerpts, one of which is from a work on the required reading list, that are used to convey a shared theme (35 minutes). One hundred minutes are allotted for this section.[5][6]
In all, the test is 180 minutes (3 hours) in duration.
Grade distribution
[edit]The grade distributions since 2010 were:
| Score | 2010[7] | 2011[8] | 2012[9] | 2013[10] | 2014[11] | 2015[12] | 2016[13] | 2017[14] | 2018[15] | 2019[16] | 2020[17] | 2021[18] | 2022[19] | 2023[20] | 2024[21] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 11.5% | 11.6% | 11.5% | 10.8% | 9.9% | 10.0% | 8.8% | 9.6% | 9.7% | 9.5% | 17.6% | 7.8% | 8.1% | 8.5% | 9% |
| 4 | 20.5% | 20.7% | 21.5% | 28.2% | 25.5% | 24.9% | 24.3% | 26.1% | 24.5% | 25.0% | 18.6% | 20.8% | 22.8% | 23.3% | 23% |
| 3 | 28.6% | 28.9% | 28.9% | 37.6% | 39.1% | 38.1% | 36.9% | 37.6% | 36.1% | 37.7% | 38.8% | 36.3% | 33.4% | 35.6% | 34% |
| 2 | 16.6% | 15.9% | 16.5% | 18.2% | 19.5% | 20.6% | 22.5% | 20.4% | 21.7% | 21.4% | 20.7% | 25.5% | 23.8% | 22.5% | 22% |
| 1 | 22.7% | 22.8% | 21.6% | 5.2% | 6.0% | 6.4% | 7.6% | 6.4% | 8.0% | 6.3% | 4.3% | 9.6% | 11.9% | 10.1% | 12% |
| % of Scores 3 or Higher | 60.7% | 61.3% | 61.8% | 76.6% | 74.5% | 73.0% | 70.0% | 73.2% | 70.3% | 72.3% | 75.1% | 64.9% | 64.2% | 67.4% | 66% |
| Mean | 2.82 | 2.82 | 2.85 | 3.21 | 3.14 | 3.12 | 3.04 | 3.12 | 3.06 | 3.10 | 3.25 | 2.92 | 2.91 | 2.98 | 2.95 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.31 | 1.31 | 1.30 | 1.03 | 1.03 | 1.05 | 1.06 | 1.04 | 1.08 | 1.04 | 1.10 | 1.07 | 1.12 | 1.10 | 1.13 |
| Number of Students | 17,136 | 18,103 | 17,919 | 18,785 | 20,118 | 21,755 | 24,061 | 25,834 | 27,451 | 29,345 | 24,137 | 21,796 | 23,009 | 22,860 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Course Requirements at collegeboard.com, retrieved on October 27, 2007
- ^ Spanish Course Description Archived March 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on October 27, 2007
- ^ "AP: Spanish Literature". Archived from the original on 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature Exam". 10 July 2006.
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam – AP Students".
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature Exam". 10 July 2006.
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global" (PDF). The College Board. 2010. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global" (PDF). The College Board. 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global" (PDF). The College Board. 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global" (PDF). The College Board. 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature Student Score Distribution - Global" (PDF). The College Board. 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature and Culture Student Score Distribution - Global" (PDF). The College Board. 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ "AP Spanish Literature and Culture Student Score Distribution - Global" (PDF). The College Board. 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ "Student Score Distributions" (PDF). Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- ^ "Student Score Distributions" (PDF). Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- ^ "Student Score Distributions" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-07-07.
- ^ "STUDENT SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ "STUDENT SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-07-07.
- ^ "Student Score Distributions" (PDF). Retrieved October 1, 2023.
- ^ "Student Score Distributions" (PDF). Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- ^ "2024 AP Score Distributions". Retrieved July 8, 2024.