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Home > AP Courses and Exams > AP Exam Questions > Exam Format: Italian Language and Culture Exam Format: Italian Language and Culture Section Question Type and Knowledge/Skills Assessed Number of Questions and % Weight of Final AP Grade Time Section I Multiple Choice 70 questions 40% 1 hour and 30 minutes Part A: Listening Sample Stimulus Types: Formal dialogue Informal dialogue Descriptive narrative Announcement A set of instructions Knowledge/skills: Comprehension of spoken Italian in a variety of formats and registers 30–34 questions (Approximately 5–7 stimuli with 3–5 questions each) 20% 35 minutes Part B: Reading Sample Realia Stimulus Types: Literary product (e.g., playbill, movie review) Surveys, charts, tables Commercial products Ads Knowledge/skills: Gist Detail Inferences Connections and comparisons 10–13 questions Approximately 3–4 stimuli with 2–4 questions each) 20% 15 minutes Sample Passage Stimulus Types (average 250 words each): Journalistic excerpt Literary excerpt Knowledge/skills: Gist Detail Register Point of view Inferences Connections and comparisons 23–25 questions (Approximately 3–4 stimuli with 4–8 questions each) 40 minutes Section II Free Response 60% 1 hour and 25 minutes Part A: Writing Paragraph Completion (Verbs) Knowledge/skills: Regular and irregular verbs, any tense or mood including: Passato prossimo with essere and avere Trapassato Imperfetto Futuro Imperativo Condizionale Congiuntivo If clauses after certain conjunctions After certain verbs Sequence of tenses Construction with Fare Piacere and similar verbs 1 passage with 10 questions 20% 5 minutes Paragraph Completion (Non-verbs) Knowledge/skills: Possessive adjective Prepositional contractions Definite and indefinite articles Pronouns Direct object Indirect object Double object Relative Reflexive Ci, ne Demonstratives 1 passage with 10 questions 5 minutes Composition Knowledge/skills: Ability to develop a composition of approximately 150 words in Italian on a given general topic Language usage (i.e., the organization of the composition, range and appropriateness of vocabulary, grammatical accuracy, and spelling) 1 question 30 minutes Part B: Culture Composition Possible Topics: Italian geography (including major cities and regions) Contemporary life in Italy Contributions of Italians and Italian Americans to the world The arts and sciences Social customs and traditions Knowledge/skills: Ability to develop a composition of approximately 150 words in Italian on a given cultural topic Content (i.e., the student's demonstration of cultural knowledge) Language usage (i.e., the organization of the composition, range and appropriateness of vocabulary, grammatical accuracy, and spelling) 1 question 20% 30 minutes Part C: Speaking Picture sequence (visual prompt for a story) Knowledge/skills: Ability to narrate a story 1 sequence of 6 images 20% 10 minutes Directed responses (thematically linked oral prompts) Knowledge/skills: Ability to engage in discourse on a given topic 5 questions 5 minutes See also... The AP Italian Language and Culture Exam

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