CLEP Spanish with Writing study guide
CLEP Spanish with Writing · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The CLEP Spanish with Writing exam (Levels 1 and 2) is a College Board credit-by-examination test that measures listening, reading, and writing skills taught in most first-year and second-year college Spanish courses. A single exam covers both levels of content, and your proficiency level is determined by your score rather than by which version you sit. The CLEP Spanish with Writing study guide has 4 sections and about 1,933 words.
01Listening: Rejoinders
Rejoinders are the shortest listening items on the exam and the easiest place to bleed points. You hear one line - a greeting, an invitation, an apology, a complaint, a compliment, a piece of news - usually once, and you choose the reply a Spanish speaker would plausibly give.
479 words, about 2 min02Listening: Dialogues and Narratives
Dialogues and Narratives are the long listening items: short conversations between two or three speakers, and monologues such as voicemails, announcements, radio spots, or anecdotes. The question that follows asks about the situation (where, who, why), a detail (when, how much, which one), an inference (what the man will do next, how the woman feels), or the point of the story.
470 words, about 2 min03Reading
Reading passages range from a two-line sign or advertisement to a letter, a news item, or a literary excerpt. Items ask for the main idea, a stated detail, a supported inference, the meaning of a word in context, the author's purpose, or the tone.
476 words, about 2 min04Writing
The Writing section asks you to produce Spanish, not merely recognize it. You complete two tasks: a short interpersonal message - replying to an email, note, or invitation from a friend or acquaintance - and a longer presentational piece in which you state and defend an opinion on a familiar topic.
508 words, about 3 min