Spanish reading exam and writing exam help/advice?
Hola,
Tengo dos examenes de español en en los próximos dos días. El primer examen es un examen de lectura, mientras que el segundo examen es un examen escrito.
¿Puedes dime donde podría encontrar cualquier los recursos que me ayudaría, por favor?
Muchas gracias para tu ayuda,
Seb
7 Answers
Exactly what kind of resources are you looking for? You don't mention what level your Spanish is at, or what your shortcomings are? Would you like to read stories or write essays that focus on vocabulary or grammar? Frankly I don't think cramming overnight is going to improve your writing or reading skills much.
I would suggest that you review your textbook. Look at the Table of Contents and make sure that you understand all of the topics that you have covered this year. If not, review those items. Any testing is most likely going to concentrate more heavily on this year's topics.
You could also visit any of the online sites that feature the fill-in-the-blank or multiple choice quizzes for topics that you feel weak in.
Believe it or not, a good night's sleep will probably help you more that any review. Take it from someone who's burnt more than his share of "midnight oil".
My old math. teacher always told us that we wouldn't catch up in one day on what we had missed during the year and to just forget about it. Rather we would sit around and discuss what we knew but were unsure of. Once done he would take us out walking the fields and hills, having a happy sitting and do whatever else...but mainly relax and get rid of the tension. It always worked for me, I would show up on the exam day with that "I don't care, I'm ready" attitude...and win.
Hay recetas de los examines formales de lengua espanola, de todos niveles, escritos y orales (claves incluidos) aquí: http://diplomas.cervantes.es/profesores/modelo.jsp
Well, for written exams, I always go over grammar points so I can use the correct sentence structures and then manipulate the answers to suit the vocabulary I actually know.
The way I see it, you could learn a hundred Spanish words the night before and end up not needing them, or you can make sure that you can use, for example, indirect object pronouns correctly or can conjugate the imperfect properly.
These are almost definitely going to be used.
If you try this though, make sure you don't try to learn too much in the one go because you will just confuse yourself.
That's just my opinion though!
¡Buena suerte! 
Study everything you have learned and then make some flash cards.
Tips/advice anyone?
Well, I guess I'm at intermediate level. I simply want to know if there are any writing excercises here on Spanishdict, or if there are some elsewhere, then perhaps someone could be kind enough to guide me in the ''write'' direction.
I also would appreciate any advice or tips, its just that when I'm nervous I cannot think straight at all.
Thanks once again,
Seb 
