AP French Language and Culture - Study Guides, Flashcards, AP-style Practice & Mock Exams

The exam has two sections: Multiple-Choice and Free-Response. The MCQ section tests your interpretive communication skills with authentic print and audio texts. The FRQ section assesses your interpersonal and presentational communication skills through four distinct speaking and writing tasks, including an email reply and a cultural comparison.

The exam equally weights interpretive communication (50%) and your combined interpersonal and presentational skills (50%). The multiple-choice section is dedicated to interpretive skills with texts and audio. The free-response section assesses your proficiency in both interpersonal and presentational speaking and writing tasks, ensuring a balanced evaluation of your abilities.

This course explores six overarching themes relevant to the Francophone world. Across 6 units and 48 topics, you will delve into subjects like family and community, science and technology, and global challenges. The curriculum is designed to build your language proficiency and cultural understanding in preparation for the exam's diverse content.

You will need to master three modes of communication: interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational. Interpretive skills involve understanding authentic texts and audio. Interpersonal skills are for two-way communication like conversations, while presentational skills involve preparing and delivering information to an audience, such as in the cultural comparison task.

We recommend a structured approach to master the material in about 13 hours. Begin by completing the topics within each unit, then test your knowledge with AP-style quizzes and unit exams. This sequential learning builds a strong foundation before you tackle the full-length mock exams to simulate test day conditions.

The exam includes two distinct writing tasks. You will complete an Email Reply, which is an interpersonal writing task requiring you to respond to an inquiry and ask questions. You will also write a persuasive essay for the Cultural Comparison, a presentational writing task where you analyze and compare cultural perspectives.

The speaking section consists of two tasks requiring recorded audio responses. The first is a simulated conversation where you respond to a series of conversation prompts, demonstrating interpersonal speaking skills. The second is a two-minute cultural comparison presentation, which assesses your presentational speaking ability on a given topic.

The exam is approximately 3 hours long. The multiple-choice section lasts about 95 minutes and tests interpretive communication with print and audio sources. The free-response section is about 85 minutes, during which you will complete four distinct tasks: two writing tasks and two speaking tasks requiring audio responses.

This platform provides extensive practice to build your confidence. You can work through 277 AP-style practice questions and reinforce vocabulary with 389 flashcards. When you are ready to gauge your overall progress, you can take one of the 3 full-length mock exams to simulate the official testing experience and identify areas for improvement.

Cultural knowledge is essential and is integrated throughout the exam. You must demonstrate an understanding of the products, practices, and perspectives of various Francophone cultures. This is explicitly tested in the cultural comparison tasks for both speaking and writing, where you must connect cultural elements to the prompt.