December 2007 French

<p>Without discussing any questoins, how hard did people think this test was? I did Spanish too, thought Spanish was incredibly easy, and French really, hard.</p>

<p>I thought French was pretty easy. The only thing that was pretty difficult was the vocab. I had taken it in October and did terribly. Hopefully this time I will do better. I omitted 8.</p>

<p>I thought the french was hard! def harder than princeton review. I didn't even finish, which I don't think I've done on a standardized test in my life. I only got to 2 of the last reading questions. plus i left maybe 8 more blank around.
Pretty much it sucked.</p>

<p>the reading passages were realy hard.. especially the one about Nous allon jouer dans la jardin.. or whatever. what wa that!</p>

<p>omg yeah i know! and then it was like 'i have a veil on my head of white muslin. something something something braided' and then the question was like 'what was on the veil' and i was like 'aah i know everything in the sentance BUT that! i said flowers (cause i figured the hair one was to trick us cause i didnt think you could have braided hair on top of a veil...) i think i left 2 of those ones blank</p>

<p>yea.. did you put showered in perfume an then resembles a funeral?</p>

<p>ewwww, it was not fun. vocab was annoying and the passages i got the idea of most of them, but then they would have a question and i'd be like "i knew everything IN the question...but i don't know the answer"</p>

<p>no not showered in perfume, i said it was freshly picked or something. i had NO idea. but, yes, def resembled a funeral. cause it said something about something in a box and then the ground
(see how far my 5 years of french class gets me...hah!)</p>

<p>what did yall study with? the only book at my local barnes was a princeton but i think it kinda sucked</p>

<p>i got a few questions guyz, could you please confirm the right answer
here we go :
- what was that with dolar : vend or vaut<br>
- is it couvert de neige or couvert de la neige
- at the bull passage at the end there was like ---- plaintifs and 4 words starting with M . which is the right answer
- there was sth like auquel / qui / que ?
- was that we are waiting for bla bla bla ausittot que
- at the passage with that stuff for the kids, is it it is healthy or sth like that.
- was it really like a funeral , i made it like a pelegrinage
- the one with the car contravention, the one with the tyre creve, right
ok so far this is all i can remember
@mkt16a17: i didnt study with any test prep book. i made some last minute review with Maunger , an extremely old French learning method.</p>

<p>That test was completely ridiculous.</p>

<ol>
<li>I put vend but it could have been vaut.</li>
<li>i said avec la meige.</li>
<li>i omitted.</li>
<li>idk</li>
<li>idk</li>
<li>omitted but i think it was the last choice.</li>
</ol>

<p>couvert de neige.
That was ridiculous. I knew next to none of the verbs on the vocab section. I heard somewhere you're supposed to be somewhat fluent? I'm just studying French in school...totally failed that one.</p>

<p>official
1 - vaut
2 - couvert de neige ( i did de la neige but it seems it is incorrect :( )
3 - mollet - it's the back part of the foot </p>

<p>i need your opinions about the rest</p>

<p>3) i said mugissement i think, it means mooing, what was the question?</p>

<p>the couvert de is a saying, it's something to do with usually you use par for things but sometimes when it's an object, such as mountains covered with snow or green beens covered with butter it's de. I totally don't remember what the whole par thing is about...I dont even know what I put, I just know there's no la because it's a saying-y thing.
1 is def. vaut bc the dollar is worth so many whatevers, not the dollar sells so many whatevers. i think.
def omitted 3, and i think a few of those other ones.
the health food bar, I said it was to get kids to eat who weren't eating or soemthing? i was looking for the answer which said the closest to 'it's healthy'
and it's pneu creve. pneu means tire.</p>

<p>it actually is SO hard because the things I know (like pneu creve) are totally random, as are the things I don't (like about half the test). There were some questions were I really did not know what 3 out of the 4 answers even meant. (like the one with the m's). You really do need to be fluent. That, or rely on a hugggggge curve? please?</p>

<p>oh and yeah, a ticket is a contravention (yes, more random knowledge. my french teacher has us watch news clips so i know random things about surveillance cameras giving people tickets for littering, and about the dying polar bears because of global warming, and about in cameroon how they can't get the right books. tv5 anyone?) but I know nothing about kids playing at burying things in the woods. or something to do with bulls who are sometimes really mean but sometimes nice.
just image the listening, guys...</p>

<p>yeah, those two passages were hard in fact. i remember i put pelegrinage instead of funeral :( . what about the pills for children, which was the most important thing about that. was it that they were healthy or they were made for children with problems in their appetit. and there was sth like : we will be waiting bla bla bla . i put ausittot que but i'm not sure for that</p>

<p>could someone please give me a rough idea as to what the usual curve is for the french SAT II? i have to say, i was suprised at how difficult the test was...i have one other question, why would the young girl wear a white veil to a funeral? that didn't make any sense to me....i chose marriage, but there were several parts of that passage that i did not understand. thanks</p>