<p>My French teacher has chosen me to participate in the National french Contest this year. I'm at Level 4 and I enjoy French class very much. However, I have no clue about this contest. I'd really appreciate your advice if you took this test before. Any useful tip of studying for it? Merci beaucoup!</p>
<p>I'd like to know about this as well, I'm in French IV, which is a college credit course and would be interested in taking the exam.</p>
<p>There is such a thing as a National French Contest? I wish my school participated in that!</p>
<p>I'm taking that soon, I just signed up for it last week...</p>
<p>I took that last year. Everyone who takes the test gets a certificate with some sort of rank at the bottom. I have no idea what it means, but when I showed it to my teacher, he said that I was 1 question away from getting an award. If that's the case, then that sucks. There were a few award winners from my class last year.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter much unless you get perfects and start taking it from French 1.</p>
<p>Um, my friend got it in Level 2 last year...this year she's struggling to pass French 3 haha</p>
<p>Is that the same thing as the National French Exam? If it is, then this will be my fourth year taking it. It's pretty easy, and you can get medals if you do well enough (which isn't that difficult). Anyway, at my school, the trend has been that the lower the level, the better the students do because the French II exam actually corresponds to what people learn in class. The exam departs from our curriculum at higher levels. Of course, this might be different for your school.</p>
<p>No one studies for it, really. It includes listening, grammar, and reading comprehension. I've never studied for these things because they're not that hard. You might want to know your grammar rules and brush up on your listening skills, but otherwise, it's not really worth preparing for.</p>
<p>I think that I've taken that... (the only reason that I'm not sure is that in my class, everyone could take it... you didn't have to be chosen...)</p>
<p>It's a pretty easy test. About half of my Honors class got an award of some sort. I think that there are first prizes (maybe gold medals, I might be getting confused...), national recognition, chapter recognition, etc... If we're referring to the same test, it basically includes what demeter listed. Don't stress out about it. I guess that if you do well on it, it will be good for your self-esteem, but it doesn't really matter. =)</p>
<p>How do I sign up to take it?</p>
<p>yeah, i'd like to sign up too...i think i took it in middle school and got some sort of award..yeah pretty easy. would it matter any for college?</p>
<p>drsarah - I'm not sure. Probably not a lot, but if you do well on it, it can't hurt.</p>
<p>Ilovesoftball44 - I think your school has to participate in it. I would ask your French teacher about it.</p>
<p>wasn't the first girl on the "super academic kids" or whatever (that article that's been going around by the ny times or something...part of the contest?</p>
<p>That sounds familiar. But there are different levels of national recognition. I mean, it sounds good to say that you placed first for the National French Exam, but it's nowhere near as prestigious as being a finalist for Siemens Westinghouse or Intel STS.</p>
<p>Anyway, if you do well, put it on the app. If you don't, then leave it off, and the adcoms won't know the difference. Taking the test itself can't hurt you.</p>
<p>oh okay thanks :)</p>
<p>Yeah, the test is pretty easy; just about everyone who took the test in my class got some award. For studying, you might want to look over some grammar, but there's not too much you can do to prepare for the listening and reading parts.</p>
<p>Wait, is this the Grand Concours? </p>
<p>You can't really study for it, it covers pretty general stuff: listening, grammar, a bit of reading.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think everybody's talking about the same thing here (Le Grand Concours, National French Exam, National French Contest). Something must have gotten lost in translation.</p>
<p>It's really hard, I hate the French National Contest. I took it for French I, II, and III. I never got an award but placed in the top 60% lol.</p>
<p>Wow. Strangely, my French teacher decided in class today that our midterm is going to be a past Grand Concours test... My life is filled with insignificant coincidences like that one =)</p>