<p>Does anyone know about it- reccomend any review books</p>
<p>I can't recommend you a review book specifically for the SAT Subject Test in Japanese, but I can recommend you an amazing Japanese grammar site. It's called Tae</a> Kim's Japanese guide to Japanese Grammar, and I learned a lot from it. I found it to be a tremendous help, and I hope it helps you immensely as well. I looked over some questions from the official Japanese practice test, and they seemed pretty easy after having learned from the guide. I hope you do well on the exam. :)</p>
<p>thanks so much</p>
<p>How was the exam by the way?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I can't offer you any insight there. I'm sorry. :( I made it sound like I took the test already, didn't I? Haha. I have a book of the official SAT Subject practice tests; I never took the actual thing. I leafed through some grammar questions and tested myself on them; they were pretty easy and simple, and I answered most of the questions correctly. I strongly feel that studying from Tae Kim's guide helped me greatly.</p>
<p>If you want more resources for studying Japanese, you should check out the links on the bottom of Tae Kim's guide page. One of the links found at the bottom of the page is Charles</a> Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials. I highly recommend this site. I learned a plethora of vocabulary from the flashcards and quizzes offered there, but there's a multitude of other Japanese vocabulary that you can learn from the site. I hope you find these resources really useful not just for succeeding on the SAT Subject Test in Japanese, but for your Japanese in general. :)</p>
<p>thank you so much you are most helpful :)</p>
<p>If anyone has taken the exam already...
About how many and what type of kanji are on it? Would it be most time-efficient to just learn the meanings without the readings? Are there many vocab words that would be considered "obscure"?</p>
<p>I took it last November and got a 790. The test itself is slightly easier than other language tests because nobody takes it (relatively).
The vocab isn't bad and you only need to know around 300-400 kanji (not as high of a number as it seems). And they're all the "easy" kanji. I knew about 700-900 kanji when I took it so just try to learn as many as you can by then. They might throw in a doozy or two.
The grammar section is pathetically easy. Don't worry about it. The stuff on Tae Kim's sight goes way more in depth than what you need for the test. If you go over every bit of grammar on that site, you'll know 3x as much grammar as you actually need. </p>
<p>Would it be most time-efficient to just learn the meanings without the readings?
Learning just the meanings or just the readings are no-nos. Learn the kanji as they appear in words. Many kanji have very abstract meanings that don't make sense unless they're in words. My favorite example of this is 以. I still have no ****ing clue as to what it means but I can write it, read it, and understand it in various words such as 以外、以前、 and 以後.
Study words and the kanji that go with them.</p>
<p>Happy Panda.</p>
<p>Can you tell me where you got the practice test.</p>
<p>I got the practice test from The Official Study Guide for all SAT Subject Tests. You can probably buy it from your local bookstore or from Amazon.</p>
<p>What is the scoring curve like?? How many questions do you have to get right in order to receive an 800?? i'm assuming that a perfect score is an 800, 1 wrong is 790, etc... but just making sure.</p>
<p>Just thought I’d share this with ppl:
According to the college board official subject test book:
out of 80:
78-80 800
77 790
76 780
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70 730
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66 700
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60 640</p>