<p>has anyone taken the french subject test? if so, was it hard, and what material was on it?</p>
<p>I thought it was the harrrrrdest thing of my life. OK not quite but think very very hard. My school isn't great at languages though, I'm in AP French right now and it's a good class but not the strongest. I also didn't study any. Got a 690 which is something like 68% which kinda sucks.
I'd just get a review book, it was stuff from fill-in-the-blank-words (en y la dont laquelle etc) to lots of hard readings. I didn't do the listening.
So if you're gonna take it, unless you took AP last year and are still studying, I'd advise studying on your own. I wish I had!</p>
<p>i can speak french fluently, and ive been doing french since i was 5. will that help me? or is it a ton of specific grammar and stuff? (i hate grammar...i know thatll be on tho lol)</p>
<p>like what verb tenses? imparfait, passe compose, present? easy stuff like that? or like, conditionel and annoying tenses/</p>
<p>I took the french subject in september and I just prepared it for a month, I didn't get an impressive score but I think the test prep book I used help a lot, especially grammar part, which organized in a brief and clear way and it emphasize the most important grammar, the subjunctive,that is tested the most in the test. And the part I felt hard about is reading, if one can't read fast enough and can't grab the meaning of uncommon use of verbs and phrases, then it's hard to get the general meaning of the whole passage.
so, if you are taking the test later, what I recommend is to do lots of reading, not just those on your testbooks, but french newspaper or news from websites, there're not so many literature in the test, but you may as well read a little for variety and building up your vocabulary.</p>