<p>Hey everyone, I'm sure there other people like me out there. I'm chinese, born in china, spent 6 years of my life there. I moved to North America when i was 6 years old. Now I'm not as fluent in chinese as I was before. I can still have basic conversations, and I can read, but not well. I can also write, but thats pretty poor. I just want to know, how hard is this chinese test going to be? What level of chinese or standard should I work up to?'</p>
<p>check the official site…collegeboard dot com and see the sample pdf on the mandarin subject test. Expect more difficulty in the real thing. You will need to be able to read, recognise characters, know basic grammar and comprehension. If you’re background is such that the first 6 years of your life were practically carried out in mandarin then I think you should be fine. Not very sure about resources…you’d probably know better than I do after googling. Maybe certain chinese/asian forums or perhaps even baidu might help.</p>
<p>you shouldn’t take this test.
colleges will assume you are fluent and it won’t count as much.
why put work into something that is going to work against you</p>
<p>The statement above is definitely incorrect.
Use your background and take the test.</p>
<p>it is not incorrect
colleges are known to look down on native speakers taking their own language tests.</p>
<p>Yea i agree with pokemon3. I am also Chinese, but I was born in Canada, and I can barely even speak it (but I can understand most of what ppl say).</p>
<p>DO NOT TAKE IT. If you look at the average for the subject tests, you will find that the average for the Chinese test is really high…like 780. Take a few practice tests and see how you do, but do not take it unless you do pretty good…</p>
<p>Same here I agree with Gaoez and pokemon3, I’m Chinese but am not too fluent in that language. It isn’t really worth it take the subject test under your circumstances.</p>
<p>I’m half Chinese but I have an American last name (father is white) and I am NOT fluent so I would need to study a lot…would it be worth my while to take the SAT2?</p>
<p>Among 2008 college-bound seniors, the mean score for the Chinese SAT II subject was 763, and 77% scored 750 or higher. Unless you’re pretty confident you can score 750 or higher it would be pretty silly to take the test, since any score below that level would put you in the bottom quartile of test-takers. By this point, I think most college adcoms would just assume that most people taking the test are native speakers, and that for native speakers this is an easy test that doesn’t reflect real academic achievement. So if you’re not a native speaker, it just seems like a waste of time.</p>