<p>I did the german with listening test today. I omitted 1 and I think I may have gotten 2-3 wrong max. Does anyone konw the curve for this test? Can I still get an 800?</p>
<p>The German curve is pretty tough according to the blue book. If I remember correctly, you could only get up to 2 points off your raw score before your score dropped. I also took the German with Listening test today, though I omitted 2 and probably got as many as 5 incorrect. I’m hoping that this will still yield a 750+.</p>
<p>i hated the listening part. in my opinion it is more about memory than about understanding. i mean, it was pretty easy to understand what was being said but to remember it all was a problem to me a couple of times. the one i omitted was the one they asked what type of music the women preferred. what did u put for that?</p>
<p>Ugh! See, that’s one I was unsure about. I wrote that she liked classical music the best, simply because she said “kein Rock” at the beginning… if only my note-taking were fast enough to keep up with everything that was being said. :/</p>
<p>but was classical an option? hahha I didnt hear that then. I was listening and waiting for it to say classical but for some reason i missed it, hahah wow. If classical was an option im pretty sure it was right then. she only talked about these two music types, and it was definetely not rock</p>
<p>Yeah, “Klassik” was an answer choice - I think it was choice (D). For the last passage, where the two students were discussing the play Faust, did you write that the girl didn’t know much about the play?</p>
<p>In the meantime, I got tripped up by a couple of the fill-in-the-blank questions (those were responsible for both my omits)…</p>
<p>yes I think thats right. haha i dont believe that i missde klassik at the end. Ahh and there was another listening part of the women that spend 3 months in paris, I wasnt sure if she went there to study or just for vacation, what did you put?</p>
<p>She was there on a study trip. And I’m so glad to hear that about the Faust question! Perhaps I didn’t mess up as badly as I thought after all… by the way, what’s your background in German? I’ve never, ever taken a formal German course (none of my high schools offered German as a language), so the majority of my German was either self-taught or tutored (albeit briefly).</p>
<p>oh no,hahha i had put that and then changed it at the end. My father is german so I speak german fluently. I also studied in a swiss school but that was only until like 5th grade. The only problem i really had was memory in the listening section as i started to do it without making any notes, but the rest was fairly simple to me. The way you learned german is impressive.</p>
<p>I also took the German with Listening today. I agree completely with you Catatau about the listening part; it’s more about memory than German honestly. </p>
<p>I did something stupid on the test today. After question 78 there’s a blank page and I guess I was nervous because I thought that was the end of the test. So I didn’t even realize there were more questions until about 20 seconds before time and so I didn’t fill in any after 78. So question: Should I cancel my scores? If I hypothetically get all the other ones right but 79-85 are blank, what kind of score could I expect?</p>
<p>If you got all the other ones right I’m pretty sure you will get more than 700. It depends really; are you applying to universities now? If you are just leave it. If you are only applying next year then you might want to cancel them and do it again another time. But thats just my opinion, its up to you to decide.</p>
<p>WAIT, THERE WERE MORE QUESTIONS AFTER 78?!?! </p>
<p>…Great. There goes my 750+. I knew there were supposed to be 85 questions, but I was confused when I got to the blank page. But I can’t cancel now, because I also took the Physics test and thought I definitely did well on that…</p>
<p>I’m a junior so I think I will be cancelling my scores and retaking. I would rather not wait until next November though; do colleges strongly prefer language tests with listening over the standard ones?</p>
<p>Calgirl, you can join my I-hate-myself corner if you’d like. But seeing as the two of us did it, I’m sure there has to be others.</p>
<p><em>joins you in the corner</em></p>
<p>Now I really feel like a ditz for not bothering to turn the page. I was hoping to get above a 750 on this test to help make up somewhat for my 4 on the AP German test, but it looks like that’s not going to happen. Oh well - I’ll just hope that I still broke 700 even in spite of doing something so silly!</p>
<p>I made the same mistake! I didn’t know there were more questions after 78. Should I cancel my score? It says on the collegeboard website that the next test is on 12/3 but they told me at my testing place that the next one would be next november.</p>
<p>Guys, you know what? I have a feeling that a disproportionate number of people made the same mistake, due to the fact that there usually isn’t a blank page anywhere in the middle of a subject test. (Even the sample German with Listening test in the official Blue Book didn’t have a random blank page right before the end.) So I’m guessing this is going to throw many people’s scores off, which I think is unfair. I’m contacting College Board about this now, to see what they can do about it. I mean, German with Listening only gets a few hundred test takers every YEAR according to the official SAT data tables, so if there was a change to be made, it would not affect so many scores. </p>
<p>I know petitioning the College Board generally doesn’t work, but in this case, I feel like the chances of it working out are better than in most situations. I’m not going to go down without a fight ;)</p>
<p>Language&Listening tests are only available in November. However, there are language tests without listening that are available more often. I feel for you that have stopped at question 78, how unlucky</p>
<p>Ugh i’m so upset with my score :(</p>