June 2008 French

<p>What were your thoughts about the tests? What is your predicted score? Any other comment?</p>

<p>I thought it was ok. I am expecting a score in the 600s although I still have hope for a score in the low 700s. I just finished taking my third year of French.</p>

<p>it was ok... i'm kind of freaked out since i only skipped 1 question... which means if i screwed up i screwed up big. anyway since theres only ABC or D as choices i figured i had pretty good odds of guessing and getting right since i could always eliminate 1 and often 2 for the qeustions i was unsure about.</p>

<p>hoping for anythign above 700, the curve is very generous so hopefully i did ok.</p>

<p>I don't know...of the three that I took (with Math II and U.S. History being the others) this is definately the one I feel least confident about. I thought the readings were fairly easy, but some of the vocabulary questions in section A puzzled me.</p>

<p>Also--from what I've heard, carsonne, the curve is not too generous, as they deduct 1/3 point for each incorrect answer (as opposed to 1/4 on the tests with five possible choices).</p>

<p>Hm, yeah i thought it was fairly hard too.. the reading sections were pretty easy but vocab was a bit tough. some questions i couldnt eliminate like more than one answer...</p>

<p>o.o</p>

<p>ahahahahaha then i'm screwed XD, guess i should have read the directions if that's where it said the thing about -1/3 pt</p>

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<li><p>Same, rupac.</p></li>
<li><p>Actually, carsonne, it does not say that anywhere on the test; the only reason I know that fact is because the Princeton Review book that I used for practice used that guideline for scoring to emulate the system of the actual test. I suppose it makes sense, as there are fewer choices on the French test, but they really should make that scoring distinction explicit.</p></li>
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<p>does anyone know the answer to question that was soemthing like "je ne veux pas d'un ___ chien" ?</p>

<p>I agree. The vocab on the reading passages was challanging. The grammar part was fairly easy for the most part. if I'm not mistaken, you can get 10 wrong and still get an 800. I guess you can get about 20 wrong to get a 700, but everything depends on the curve. I would really happy with something in the low 700s. I was scoring in the low 700s REA's practice tests. Is that a good sign?</p>

<p>Je ne veux pas d'un TEL chien. </p>

<p>That's what I got...</p>

<p>not vieil lol</p>

<p>it cant be vieil tho cuz vieil goes before a noun that starts with a vowel. for chien, it would be vieux chien</p>

<p>for some reason, my post ended up before yours, carsonne, even tho i posted after..</p>

<p>for the one that was like
____-vous des exercises physiques
or something like that
was that blank appreciez?</p>

<p>ah true, let me edit mine out</p>

<p>ugh i hope i didnt fail french</p>

<p>hey, for the advertisement to the trip to that ancient/countryside place (that wasn't the elephants), what was included in the price (food, lodging, transportation)? and for hte second part of that question, that was like "everything is provided except...", what was that one?</p>

<p>french is my best subject and i thought that test was kind of hard! i took princeton review practice tests and scored between a 700-750, so i'm hoping i can pull off at least a 700.</p>

<p>"for the one that was like
____-vous des exercises physiques
or something like that
was that blank appreciez?"</p>

<p>The verb has to be reflexive, as only such verbs require a following pronoun in the imperative. I think I put depechez (or the only reflexive verb present).</p>

<p>"hey, for the advertisement to the trip to that ancient/countryside place (that wasn't the elephants), what was included in the price (food, lodging, transportation)? and for hte second part of that question, that was like "everything is provided except...", what was that one?"</p>

<p>For question 1, I recall putting all were included. It said you dine with the host family (food), stay with them (lodging), and I believe it also mentioned transportation to the place, as well.</p>

<p>For question 2, I think I put "isolement" (isolation) as it was implied that one is in the company of the host family, and therefore is not solitary.</p>

<p>Anyone else take this exam?</p>

<p>Yeah, I took it too. I got the same answer for the "isolation" question. I also said that everything was included.</p>