<p>Although on the NSE site it says over 100,000 people take it, it seems like this test is vastly unknown or at least not popular on CC. </p>
<p>Anyways, i took level 1 last year and got 390/400 Raw score and i think 99% percentile. However, this year i did a lot worse and got 370/400 Raw score and am waiting for percentiles.</p>
<p>For any of those who have taken it, would this still qualify for 95% percentile do you think? Further, what were your raw scores?</p>
<p>I think it will, but I’m not 100% sure.</p>
<p>I received a Premio de Oro last year in the level 4s though, so you’re not alone in having taken this exam. But the language department is pretty strong and invites students to take national exams in all the languages. As for my raw score, all I know is that I was above the 95th percentile.</p>
<p>I don’t take Spanish anymore though lol.</p>
<p>Yeah…I thought this years test was a lot harder than the previous years test. Thoughts anyone?? (Level 2)</p>
<p>It was required to take the National Spanish Exam this year. I took level 3 and I thought it was very hard.</p>
<p>I took level 5 this year. I didn’t think it was too bad, especially for the critical reading and listening since we do a lot of that stuff in class. I’m in AP which is my 5th year.</p>
<p>I took the Level 3 test last week (my first time). My curriculum’s vocabulary did not match well with what was tested, so I did poorly on that part. The grammar was relatively simple, though. However, I did worse on the listening and reading sections than I had expected. My percentages were not very good, but they were somehow the highest from my school. Does anyone know what percentages generally confer what percentiles (and in turn medals)?</p>
<p>It depends year to year. I think because last years was relatively easy (according to the national averages on the National Spanish Exam site) they made this test a little bit harder, especially making 50 Achievement questions instead of 40. I think usually it goes something like around 230-260 Premio 260-285 Bronze 285 - 320 Silver 325 + Gold (<a href=“http://www.nationalspanishexam.org/images/pdf/results.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nationalspanishexam.org/images/pdf/results.pdf</a> determined with a national average of approx. 215)</p>
<p>Sorry for my further unfamiliarity, but are all the levels out of 400? I just heard my percents, not the percentiles or the raw or composite scores.</p>
<p>yes all levels are out of 400. 200 Achievement and 200 for Proficiency</p>
<p>I took level 4. My score is 302. I had trouble on the proficiency section because I kept spacing out. I took last years test as a practice-test, and I though this test, particularly the achievement section, was much easier, which probably explains why I scored much higher on this one than the practice-test (I got a 100 for achievement for the practice-test).</p>
<p>Jeez i hope its different for every level because i honestly thought some of the level 2 achievement wquestions were totally different from previous tests</p>
<p>I am in Level Three and I got a 348 out of 400. It was the best in the entire body who took this level of the NSE so hopefully I can get ORO</p>
<p>when you say like best in your body, you mean in your school right? because if you mean like the “entire” body who took it and you got the best then yeah you would have gotten a gold lol</p>
<p>My D took the 2010 Level 5 Exam and found the proficiency part to be pretty darned challenging, not because of the language but rather because it seemed like a difficult game of logic/deduction. Her raw score was 376/400 (94%). Could that possibly be a gold medal in California?</p>
<p>I thought it was very difficult this year. The percentile value for each raw score varies from year to year and level to level. After looking at the average scores for each level over the past few years, I’ve found that people get the highest average scores on level 2 and the lowest average scores on level 01, so your percentiles would be lower on level 2 and higher on level 01. I took level 3, and I thought that I was getting dumber or something because I studied more than ever before and did worse than ever before. I noticed that the practice exams were progressively harder each year. So I really don’t have an opinion, only facts.</p>
<p>i got 92 percentile last time but this time 315 (level 4)</p>
<p>@NavyBlueNinja</p>
<p>umm…wait are we looking at the same averages? lol according to [National</a> Averages](<a href=“http://www.nationalspanishexam.org/index.php/results/national-averages]National”>http://www.nationalspanishexam.org/index.php/results/national-averages) </p>
<p>Ordering of averages (highest to lowest):
2009: Level 1, 01, 2, 3, 4
2008: Level 1, 3, 4, 01, 2
2007: Level 1, 01, 2, 4, 3</p>
<p>Yeah by body I mean the sophomore class in my high school. The Level Three was much harder than the lower exams I have taken thus far because the achievement part its much tougher. Expect to see your score decline next year but trust me, others are going to also so your percentile should match up.</p>
<p>I took the Spanish 1 exam (I’m in 7th grade), and it wasn’t too bad, but some places were easy to mess up on. The hardest part for me was on achievement. They asked for the plural of certain words, and even though I’ve taken Spanish classes since preschool, figuring out whether or not it needed an accent mark was very difficult. It was bad enough you had to type your own response rather than multiple choice. Haha</p>
<p>I took it but me and all my friends do somewhat poorly b/c it is based on a different book than we use, so we don’t know much of the true vocab on there.</p>