<p>Has anyone taken either one of these test? and if so, can you share your experience and the number of years/to what extent you studied for it? How did you study for it..was it difficult to study for..</p>
<p>I'm looking toward taking it in December (Reading).
I just started my 5th year of spanish (literatureAP).
I just started my 3rd year of french (languageAP, i skipped a level).
My spanish has become worse because I was trying to balance both languages, but i've ONLY had 2 full years of french.....
I'm aiming for 720+.</p>
<p>Oh and I am Korean, but I'm not fluent anymore. I probably have the vocabulary/understanding of an elementary school Korean child. Worth trying? everyone who takes it is Korean and everyone gets an 800....plus I'm Korean, so they probably expect me to already speak the language. maybe its better to let them assume that i'm fluent instead of disproving them?</p>
<p>Or should i opt out of taking language tests all together?</p>
<p>my friend, who is a native french creole speaker, and who achieved a 7 in Ib french, got a 730 on SAT french. But I would get the collegeboard book and give each of them a try.</p>
<p>I got a 680 on spanish without listening. I took three years of spanish in high school (II as a fresh, III as a soph, IV as a junior) and was a month into AP Spanish as a senior. I did one practice test awhile before the actual test, so not a whole lot of studying (not a good idea in hindsight).</p>
<p>But yea, I consider Spanish a strong subject for me, but the test was very hard. It's like an English mechanics test, except for spanish, it's techinical grammar. I think if I had studied I could have gotten a 700+, but I think anything approaching 700 or better is very good for a non-native speaker.</p>
<p>I have advice, but I'm just going to re-post it from another thread I commented in. Sorry for being lazy :S</p>
<p>"French (reading)- Barron's SAT Subject Test for French. I don't know if they released a new version, but the one I got from the library, which I think was an older edition, was great.</p>
<p>BUT, I'll give you a warning now--language subject tests are not exactly something that a book can outline and help you 100%. What I mean by that is, there is some degree of built-up knowledge required to do well since the curriculum they can be testing you on will be so far left field half off the time you would have never experienced it unless you've delved really deeply into the language. Beyond that though, there's also a sense of linguistic aptitude necessary because, yes you'll need to know complex grammar and vocabulary to do well, but yeah there's bound to be at least one word on the test you'll have to guess its meaning through context. If you've taken the AP test (and did well) and know how to do all this, you'll be fine (you may not even need a study guide for the test). If not, the Barron's book can only help you so much.</p>
<p>OH, but study grammar! That's the most straightforward part of the test (even if there's A LOT to know)"</p>