IB Spanish Ab Initio reading papers: anyone else find them hard?

The speaking and writing seem quite simple as long as you know what you're doing, but the reading exam seems really hard considering we've learnt Spanish from scratch. Our first mock at the start of this school year was hard, but I put it down to either just being a hard paper or because we hadn't finished the syllabus my vocabulary wasn't broad enough. Anyway just done another mock, I don't know how I've done on it as I only did it yesterday, but it still seemed hard. Ok, so we haven't done one of the vocab topics yet and the 10 mark question at the end was based around that topic, but it was still pretty hard. I expected it to be GCSE level since it's ab intio but it’s far from it...anyone else find the reading paper hard?

I'm not in spanish, but I think the french ab initio papers are bloody difficult, considering it's ab initio. I am v. v. glad to not be in french B, though! :/

I worry about spanish on quite abit on the whole, more the writing than reading; possibly because our teacher has made it confusing.

We've been quite well advised on the writing, not so much the speaking yet, which is worrying since it's in March I think, but it sounds pretty easy. We got told in the writing you have to write a 60 word notice and then a 120 word diary/article/letter. We got told it's better to do the diary cos then you can write "I'm sorry I haven't written in a while because blah blah blah" then talk about whatever you're meant to and sign off "I will write again tomorrow" to get tenses in.

The speaking and writing seem quite simple as long as you know what you're doing, but the reading exam seems really hard considering we've learnt Spanish from scratch. Our first mock at the start of this school year was hard, but I put it down to either just being a hard paper or because we hadn't finished the syllabus my vocabulary wasn't broad enough. Anyway just done another mock, I don't know how I've done on it as I only did it yesterday, but it still seemed hard. Ok, so we haven't done one of the vocab topics yet and the 10 mark question at the end was based around that topic, but it was still pretty hard. I expected it to be GCSE level since it's ab intio but it’s far from it...anyone else find the reading paper hard?

The speaking and writing seem quite simple as long as you know what you're doing, but the reading exam seems really hard considering we've learnt Spanish from scratch. Our first mock at the start of this school year was hard, but I put it down to either just being a hard paper or because we hadn't finished the syllabus my vocabulary wasn't broad enough. Anyway just done another mock, I don't know how I've done on it as I only did it yesterday, but it still seemed hard. Ok, so we haven't done one of the vocab topics yet and the 10 mark question at the end was based around that topic, but it was still pretty hard. I expected it to be GCSE level since it's ab intio but it’s far from it...anyone else find the reading paper hard?

The speaking and writing seem quite simple as long as you know what you're doing, but the reading exam seems really hard considering we've learnt Spanish from scratch. Our first mock at the start of this school year was hard, but I put it down to either just being a hard paper or because we hadn't finished the syllabus my vocabulary wasn't broad enough. Anyway just done another mock, I don't know how I've done on it as I only did it yesterday, but it still seemed hard. Ok, so we haven't done one of the vocab topics yet and the 10 mark question at the end was based around that topic, but it was still pretty hard. I expected it to be GCSE level since it's ab intio but it’s far from it...anyone else find the reading paper hard?