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I have my A-level spanish oral exam in 6 days and it's safe to say I am shitting myself. I always get so nervous and seem to forget everything... anyone got any good advice on how to prepare and not be nervous?
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i had 2 oral exams and i hated them. one was for standard grade german and the other was higher french. both times i mucked them up as i forgot silly words and panicked. just do as girl_gunner says ... practice on your own and if you are confident enough to talk away in spanish then you should have nothing to worry about. i do believe that that is the trick. if you are cofident with it then you should be fine
I'll join the club. My A-level Spanish oral is on friday (11th). And we have an external examiner doing ours so ive never even met them before-Im petrified.
Do you have a list of the suggested oral questions published by the exam board? I had the list and am making sure I can answer all of the questions on there, on all of the topics. Record yourself talking about the topics you studied that they might ask you (the same ones as the written paper). the listen back to it-make sure you have the facts right, then check your own grammar.
Thats about all I can offer.
By the way, what topics are you doing for the writen paper?
I've most the set questions, a few still to do. They are on stuff like Transport Issues, The State and Individual, Health Issues, Distribution of wealth... real interesting! we've done coursework not a writen paper, and what i'm not looking forward to is them asking about that!!!! Arghhhh i don't mind written exams, but orals mess me up!
I wish we had done coursework-the written exam topics are quite hard.
so i kinda figure...u cant prepare for *everything*. Just make sure you prepare your speech and your topic really really well, and maybe get together with a friend, and just chat about stuff in general in Spanish- cos anything could come up!!
best of luck, i know they are so so scary!!
xxx
My Spanish exam was a nightmare, the invigilator was so disorganised.
Anyhoo, the best way to prepare is to go through the suggested questions and make sure you're ok to answer them all. Work out some subjunctive and some imperfect subjunctive sentences in advance so you know you can get them in.
Everything else has been said. Good luck!
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I was so chuffed yesterday. I was doing Spanish revision of tenses, and got both subjunctive and imperfect subjunctive right!! Ive always had problems with those two, I was so proud