​If you are working on your own on the preparation of the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam, you can access (if you haven't done yet) AP Spanish exams from past years (2016, 2017 and 2018). Once you have taken these AP Spanish exams on your own, you can access the answer key links to see how the right answers look like. All of these links will bring you to the official source.

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EXAM PREPARATION ANSWER KEY

Answers Key

Interpersonal Writing answer key [PDF]
Presentational Writing answer key [PDF]
Interpersonal Speaking answer key [PDF]
Presentational Speaking answer key [PDF]
Speaking Samples Answer Key [Audio]

Here you can find AP Spanish Preparation answer key for the different parts of the exam

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What are each one of these sections?
Interpersonal Writing is a part of the preparation where you need to learn to write a composition where you are interacting with someone. It involves interpersonal and writing skills. An example of this can be sending a letter to someone, answering an email, or any other daily activity where we write to communicate with someone else. The Interpersonal writing is probably one of the parts where you will invest most of your time, and this AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam preparation answer key can be very helpful to get ready for it.

Presentational Writing is a part of the preparation where you will need to learn to write a composition where you are presenting a topic. Presentational and writing skills are involved on this part. There many different contexts where you can be presenting using your writing skills, so be ready for a wide variety of scenarios.

Interpersonal Speaking is a part of the preparation where you will have to learn to speak in Spanish to someone. It involves interaction, and is probably the most challenging part for many students, since what you will say, will depend on what you prepared for the exam, but also on what the other person is adding to the conversation. Listening to conversations can be very helpful to be more aware of you should know, what you should do, and what you shouldn't do. Even watching movies or shows can help you to improve this part of the exam, since what you see on movies and shows are mostly conversations between people, or in other words, interpersonal interactions through speaking skills.

Presentational Speaking is a part of the preparation where you have to learn to use you presentation and speaking skills to present a topic. It is a challenging part of the test, but normally is less challenging than the Interpersonal Speaking part, since you can have a good part of this assignment ready beforehand. It can be very helpful for you to watch presentations online in Spanish. You can find a product or a topic that you are interested in, and look it up on youtube or any other provider so you can watch Presentational Speaking examples in real life situations. This part is probably the one that you prepare the less, even that, is an important piece of the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam preparation answer key.

On Speaking samples you will find examples of speaking parts of the exam that will help on your preparation. It can be very helpful to have a look at this after you have taken the exams on your own, or even before that.

​Interpersonal and Presentational Speaking Samples from the 2017 Workshop
This is an extra resource where you can see samples of Interpersonal and Presentational Speaking tasks.

Finally, weather it is better to read these documents before or after taking the practice exams is really up to you. It is actually helpful on both moments. We have another source with this kind of documents from different years that you can access as well on this other page.
How exams were in the past, are not a predictor of how exams will be in the future, but it is a good help to know how they have been so far. If you want to know more about AP Spanish, or learn more or practice grammar and vocabulary in Spanish, don't hesitate in using all the resources on this website.