<p>Hello, my question is has anyone here taken the Chinese SAT 2s? If so did you think it was hard?</p>
<p>You see my dilemma is that I can speak Cantonese chinese but not Mandarin, so to anyone who could be in my current situation, do you think its possible to do some self studying?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I took the Chinese SATII last november without studying and thought it was really easy. However, I do speak Mandarin at home and can read in Chinese quite well. If you can understand Mandarin, you shouldn’t have any problem on the listening section, and the reading and grammar sections are written in several versions of Chinese, even Pinyin.</p>
<p>Just a word of advice though, something that you’re probably already aware of: most people who take this test are native speakers, so a perfect score can only get you to the 50th percentile, which wouldn’t look that impressive on a college application.</p>
<p>SO what do you reccomend? Try to practice and take a different SAT language? Or focus more on the other ones to take.</p>
<p>This is pretty hard. I was thinking about taking Chinese II also, but decided that I should take Literature just because I don’t want the impression of colleges thinking “oh, he’s just another chinese kid who can get an 800” but try something else. idk if that is what really goes through admissions’s head, but that’s what I would think. so maybe you should take something else?</p>
<p>@jenchow</p>
<p>I don’t know, I guess it depends on how busy your schedule is right now and whether you have the time to devote to self-study. If you still haven’t decided it yet, I suggest you should self-study over this summer and give it a try in november. Even though colleges know that you’re chinese and that this subject is not something you’ve mastered in school, it’s still good to show that you are versatile in other languages. After all, you will be able to pick which subject tests to send to colleges by the time you apply, and even if you don’t do well, you can either cancel the score or use score choice afterwards.</p>
<p>In one word, don’t.</p>
<p>You’re Chinese. They don’t care if you’re canto or mando, if you’re Chinese, they expect 800, or else you fail (800 is only 60 percentile I believe). Because you’re canto though, you’re going have to spend a lot of time on listening (the rest should be easy since the writing is the same). Not worth the effort just to pull of a 800 universities expect you to be able to get anyways.</p>
<p>Your score in Chinese means nothing if you’re a native speaker. Colleges will assume you are a native speaker considering your last name.</p>
<p>Take a test that actually means something.</p>