November 2012 SAT II Languages with Listening Discussion

<p>My guess is that there won't be enough people taking any given language with listening to warrant a separate discussion for each, so I'll just lump them together.</p>

<p>I took Japanese today. A few weeks ago, I got a 690 on the practice test in the official College Board book that covers every SAT II. Relative to that, I'd say the reading passages were a little harder, the grammar was about the same, and the listening was easier.</p>

<p>Four people at my testing center forgot to bring CD players or didn't know they'd need them, and one person's CD player broke. Was anyone else's center this hectic? Did you yourself not have a working CD player?</p>

<p>one girl accidentally didn’t do half of her test. felt bad for her
one girl was really hot
also the spanish w/ listening test was a breeze - finished with 15 minutes to spare. but i’m a native</p>

<p>i took the french w/ listening (int) - a bit challenging, but straightforward!
really? at my test center they had backup cd players, headphones… even calculators!</p>

<p>i took chinese today, it was fairly easy but a few that im iffy on</p>

<p>lol there were only 2 people in my testing room other than me</p>

<p>Scheduled to take Japanese but I live in NYC… so two weeks to START studying.</p>

<p>The worst part is reading for me because I don’t know any kanji. WHY COLLEGE BOARD JUST PUT FURIGANA.</p>

<p>@CSIHSIS: The only Japanese test of the year was today…</p>

<p>@emberjed: “Oh Sandy baby someday when high-yi school is done
Somehow, someway, our two worlds will be one
In heaven, forever and ever we will be
Oh please say you’ll stay oh Sandy” </p>

<h2>“Students whose tests were postponed will be able to take the SAT on Nov. 17 or Dec. 15, based on when test facilities and staff members will be available, the College Board said. Students also have the option of transferring their registration to another national administration, free of charge.” </h2>

<p>[SAT</a> Cancellation Spreads to Several States Affected by Storm - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/sat-cancellation-spreads-to-several-states-affected-by-storm/]SAT”>SAT Cancellation Spreads to Several States Affected by Storm - The New York Times)</p>

<p>I had never heard of such a policy, and SAT seems like too strict an organization to implement one. I’m sorry I didn’t know about it, but you didn’t have to be such a jerk about it.</p>

<p>I don’t think that was a jerk move at all.</p>

<p>I don’t want the thread to become about this, so I’ll leave it.</p>

<p>I was somewhat surprised to see a room full of testers at my test centre, and of a wide variety of languages…</p>

<p>I took Japanese too! Got a 780 on the blue book. The actual test was pretty easy; the reading section was very fun to do, what with the advertisements and all ^^
I got at least one question wrong though, because I thought 靴を着る and not はく… the curve is -1 = 800 I think, so here’s hoping I don’t get anything else wrong!</p>

<p>Oh and there was one girl complaining about how she couldn’t take multiple Listening tests in one sitting.</p>

<p>I thought that the reading section on the spanish test was really easy, but the listening was much harder than any of the practice cd’s I had used.</p>

<p>Come to think about it, it’s a little ridiculous that you can’t take multiple Listening tests in one sitting. What if you really are multilingual but don’t learn about Subject Tests until after October or so of your junior year?</p>

<p>for sat 2 chinese, anybody remember what the answer was to the last listening question? it was something like what are the passengers suppose to do next.</p>

<p>I’m not sure I need to do this, but… bump.</p>

<p>Taking it tomorrow, lol.</p>

<p>Perhaps some last minute kanji cramming. Because I don’t know any.</p>

<p>Alright, I’ll break the ice. I only got a 620 on Japanese, which is about 100 points lower than I’d expected to.</p>

<p>Daughter is native in Spanish (Castilian…like from Spain) and got a 760…she thought the listening portion was difficult, and had a bit of trouble with the Latin American accent. Has anybody else had this problem? Any advice on whether it would be worthwhile to take it again in the non-listening format? Is an 800 supposed to be pretty easy to get if you’re native?</p>

<p>I’m native in Spanish and I got a 720 and my friend is also native and she got a 760.</p>