<p>Anyone preparing for the German Subject test? I so often see other languages but rarely Deutsch, so I was wondering if anyone is taking it what are you doing to prepare for it?
Also, what is a good score for the german test?(not a native speaker of course)</p>
<p>Oh my, another Deutsch learner. I am in shock. xD Depends if you’re taking with listening, the average is 609, while it’s 616 for the regular test.</p>
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<p>Good luck to you! The College Board SAT II book has both practice exams and the CDs in it, so that should help … I’ve yet to see a prep book, myself …</p>
<p>Haha yes, somehow I can’t seem to find ANYONE preparing for this exam. But I’ve been learning Deutsch for several years now, mostly in school plus at the beginning when I started learning it I took private lessons but only for a year or so.
I’ve looked into that book and I did the practice test in it, I pretty much solved about 90% of it right but it seemed, don’t know, too easy? The questions weren’t that easy per say, but nor were they hard. I keep thinking that it was easier than what the real thing would be?
Oh well, in the meantime, I’m just getting a professor to study with three-four times a week so that should help out a bit I think.</p>
<p>Anyone else out there preparing for this ST?</p>
<p>I know for a fact that my German teacher has a SAT II book devoted completely to German … it is black and brown, from what I can remember, but I do not know the author … I could look … you would like, no ?</p>
<p>Check out the REA book for the subject test, Amazon has it, it is one of the only ones out there. Viel Glueck!</p>
<p>@sheep.disturber: if it isn’t much trouble that could help me out, thanks!
@broetchen:Oh I’ll see if I can find it, or order it. Danke!</p>
<p>Here is the book –
[Amazon.com:</a> SAT II Subject Test in German (SAT Subject Test Series) (9780837363066): Jack Rudman: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0837363063]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0837363063)</p>
<p>Although it is doubtful that you would want it, after a quick look-through of the reviews</p>
<p>Hi, sorry to intrude on your thread but I am hoping for some info from students taking the German SAT2. My S does not hang out here and refuses to ask questions. I bought him the Official SAT Study Guide to try to determine which SAT to take. He looked at the German and thought it was too hard. How much German have you had? Does it emphasize speaking or writing/grammar? He has had 4 years of high school German and was there for 3 weeks this summer.</p>
<p>Hey! I’ve also checked out the Blue Book Subject Tests and thought the tests in there weren’t particularly hard. I’ve also had four years of german in high school, plus 2 years in seventh and eight grade, plus two more years of private lessons back then (but that was really at the beginning and don’t feel like they did me much good in the long run).
From what I’ve seen in the bb, the test can have a lot of unknown words even for someone who’s had the language for four years in high school, but you cannot let that scare you because you can answer most questions anyway without knowing what every word means. (some parts were harder true, and I could barely make out most of the words but I understood and answered them from context).
The best thing I can suggest is to simply revise all basic grammar and I would recommend the Sparknotes German charts - they have a set of 6 for grammar and 6 for vocab, trust me, it will definitely make things easier to understand.
Idk which books they studied in their school from, but in my school we used the Ping Pong books by Hueber and I’m thinking of going through all 3 of them. Plus, I have a friend who’s lived in Germany and he has studied Philology in college so I’ll be practicing speaking with him more intensively in the next few weeks. For me personally, since I’m not too big on grammar, its always easier to just speak it and after a while I just know how its supposed to sound correct, but I can’t explain why haha.
Oh and german tv, gotta love german Tv. Channels like Vox or Prosieben have a lot of the popular shows (like O.C. for example) but the thing with germans is they synchronize everything, which is normally very irritating but in this case it helps. At first it might be hard to make out what they are saying cause they talk pretty fast, but after a while you just get used to hearing the language and you don’t even notice they speak in a different one because you can understand everything.
Phew that was long, but I hope it helps! ^^</p>
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<p>It even sounds fast to a native speaker, because when they synchronize, they have to fit the German into the the time it took the English speaker to say something. If you have ever noticed how long German words and sentences are, you will see it takes longer to say the same thing. The dubbing always sounds rushed and a little breathless.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice on the Sparknotes charts; I will look for them. He decided to take the German instead of US history which he had 2 years ago. We will be having a girl stay with us for two weeks as the second half of the school exchange but they are supposed to speak English while they are here. I have a suspicion that he knows more than he thinks–and if he doesn’t, I guess he will not be going to his super reach school.</p>
<p>I suppose that the best thing to do at this point is get a book of tests (preferably Collegeboard’s). Language exams aren’t really something to be crammed in a matter of weeks or even months for that matter. Listening, especially, is designed to test proficiency in understanding language that has been learned over the course of time. However, reviewing basic grammar rules and taking a look at lists of verbs/etc. can always help. </p>
<p>@lotsofquests
It seems that your S would do fairly well considering he’s been in Germany for 3 weeks. However, I’ve known people who have taken German for many years (say 4 high school years) and cannot speak a word of it. It all depends on what kind of commitment your S puts into learning the language. But generally, when he’s committed enough to be there for 3 weeks, he must be proficient. I’ve had 3 years of German personally. I’ve been in Germany twice, each for 3 weeks and those 6 weeks in Germany definitely helped my German improve more than my 3 years of high school German.</p>
<p>nluu0929, thanks. I really didn’t think that cramming would work. If he doesn’t know it now, it is too late to try to learn. I was just kinda curious to know how much German others have had that have/are taking the test. I know that some of the foreign language tests are really difficult to do well on because of all of the native speakers. My s has had German 3-5 times a week since kindergarten but I don’t think that they learned much until high school. The first email that I got from him from Germany was a near panic, thinking that he had to survive 3 weeks on his limited skills (and this from a kid that had won his class German award for 4 years in a row). I am hoping that he suffers more from a lack of confidence than a lack of skill</p>