{"id":15243,"date":"2022-07-05T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\/blog\/?p=15243"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:48:10","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-the-clep-spanish-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\/blog\/how-to-prepare-for-the-clep-spanish-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prepare for the CLEP Spanish Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re looking to take <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\/testprep\/product\/clep-practice-tests-spanish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CLEP Spanish<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to earn college credit this year, we have you covered! CLEP Spanish is one of our most popular test prep courses. CLEP exams are a great way to save time and money while <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\/testprep\/college-test-prep\/credit-by-exam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">earning college credit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s on the exam<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CLEP Spanish exam consists of three timed sections containing 121 questions. You will have 90 minutes to complete the exam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a breakdown of the exam structure:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Listening Sections: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two listening sections contain audio portions presented once. You will have 30 minutes to complete the two listening sections. The time begins after you\u2019ve finished listening to the audio portion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Reading Section:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You will have 60 minutes to complete the reading section of the exam.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowledge and skills required<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CLEP Spanish test takers will want to have one to two years of college-level Spanish course experience and feel fairly comfortable with Spanish grammar and vocabulary. Since speaking and writing in Spanish are not evaluated on this exam, you will want to focus your attention on listening and reading comprehension skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a breakdown of content and the weight of each section of the exam:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rejoinders (15%):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This section measures your listening skills through short audio portions. You will then have 10 seconds to select the most appropriate response to complete each conversation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Dialogues and narratives (25%):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This section assesses your listening comprehension with longer spoken dialogues, narratives,and announcements. The audio portions are supplemented with images and questions. There are different format types to the questions being asked. Pay special attention to the directions and what is being asked for each question.You will have 12 minutes to complete this section.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Discrete sentences (vocabulary and structure &#8211; 16%): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This section requires you to finish an incomplete statement by selecting the best word option in each scenario.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Short cloze passages (vocabulary and structure &#8211; 20%):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In this section, you will read a paragraph and fill in the blanks within the context of a paragraph.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Reading passages (reading comprehension &#8211; 24%): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To complete this section, you will need to answer questions about short texts.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sample Questions<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Test your readiness for the CLEP Spanish exam by answering the following practice questions. Scroll down to review the answers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mi __________________ es muy divertido. 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