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And they're afraid of it, you know.

But I would say not to be afraid of it because it's not too long.

You know, it's 80 to 150 words.

And it's your time to show off what you've learned over the last five or six years in Spanish on a topic, you know.

And it's loosely based on the reading comprehension.

OK.

Very important.

Well, what I would say to my kids, I would say, you know, when you get the paper, the first thing, I wouldn't even read the questions.

You know, I'd go to the back page, get rough work, whatever, jot down.

important grammar points you know your verb tense endings for present your past your future you know the common or regular verbs any other grammar point that might have caused you difficulty in school just get them down on paper have them in front of you forget about it because people will go and do their comprehensions first so I would always advise to do that so then when they come to their written section they're not thinking on the spot they have things written down in front of them and they just have to flip over and say I need a past tense or a present tense

And they have it in front of them so they're not thinking as they're writing because they're under pressure.

They're getting tired, you know.

Yeah.

So it's very important, I think, personally.

Unlike the French teacher, I would be a person who would advocate highlighting, you know.

I would be underlining their buzzwords, your keywords in the text, you know.

and finding them in the text and have the comprehension in front of you, you know, I think it's useful for my kids, yeah.

So I would take the paper, it's like, it's 150 minutes if you're talking in minutes, the whole paper, you know, it's two and a half hours, so it's 150 minutes.

So, you know, your prep time, you're looking over, you're jotting down your ideas and stuff like that, I would say five minutes.

The journalistic text,