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Spanish Literature

About the Exam

Exam Overview

The AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam will test your understanding of the literary and cultural concepts presented in the course units, as well as your ability to apply what you learned from the required texts to interpret and analyze other non-required texts.

Exam Duration

3hrs

AP Exam App

  1. Must be signed out of your Chromebook account

  2. Click App and click on the URL to install app.

  3. Log in with CollegeBoard username and password

ECHS - 2021 Before You Can Take a Digital AP Exam

Click ---> Preview Digital AP Exam

Preview Digital AP Exams - AP CentralStudents don’t need to wait until April to see what the digital exams will be like. Use the following resources to give students a preview of the app and the digital exams. Introduce Students to the New App Share this video with your students to give them an overview of how they can use the new digital testing application. Give Students a Preview of Digital AP Exams Students can use this slideshow to explore features of the digital testing application, learn how to get their device ready, and see how exam questions will be displayed.

Click ---> Digital Exam Practice

Digital Exam Practice – AP Central | College BoardDigital practice will roll out over several days. It will be added to the app starting April 8 and will be available for all digital exam subjects by April 12. We strongly recommend that students do digital practice before exam day. They’ll see each type of multiple-choice and/or free-response question on their exam. They’ll get to preview the pre-exam steps (exam setup and check-in), as well as the directions, screens, tools, features, and reminders they’ll see on exam day.

About the Exam

Section IA: Multiple Choice Interpretive Listening

15 questions | 20mins | 10% of Score


This section includes 3 sets of questions based on authentic audio texts including:

  • An excerpt from an interview with an author

  • A recited poem that is not on the required reading list

  • A presentation on a literary topic related to course content

You will have time to skim the questions for each set before listening to the audio.

The interview and presentation will be played once; the recited poem will be played twice.

Section IB: Multiple Choice Reading Analysis

50 questions | 1hr | 40% of Score


This section includes 6 sets of 7–10 questions based on readings from a variety of genres, periods, and places in the Spanish-speaking world.

Readings include:

  • Works from the required reading list

  • Works outside the required reading list

  • A passage of literary criticism regarding a work or author from the list

One set will contain 2 passages that are related by theme—one of those passages is taken from the required reading list and the other is from a non-required text

Section II: Free Response

4 questions | 1hr 40mins | 50% of Score


The free-response sections includes two short-answer questions and two long-essay questions:

  • 2 Short-Answer Questions: Suggested time: 15 minutes each (~30 minutes)

    • Text Explanation: You’ll read an excerpt from a text on the required reading list, identify the author and period of the text, and explain the development of a given theme found within the excerpt in relation to the whole work from which the excerpt is taken.

    • Text and Art Comparison: You’ll read an excerpt from a text on the required reading list and study an image of a work of art (e.g., a painting, photograph, sculpture, or drawing) related by theme to the text. You will compare how a particular theme is represented in both the text and the image, and then connect that theme to the genre, period, or movement of the text.

  • 2 Essay Questions: Suggested time: 35 minutes each (~70 minutes)

    • Analysis of a Single Text: You’ll read an excerpt from a text on the required reading list and then analyze how the text represents the characteristics of a particular genre as well as a particular historical, cultural, or social context.

    • Text Comparison: You’ll read 2 excerpts related by theme—one from a text on the required list, the other from a text not on the list—and analyze the effect of literary devices that the authors use in the texts to develop a particular theme that is provided in the question prompt.

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