<p>i was wondering what you thought about how good the sat II is in measuring knowledge of a language. part of this is a bit of a rant, because i have taken german for 11 years, yet i only got a 650. this may reflect on my teachers because unfortunately the last few years have not been very productive. maybe it's also because my teacher stressed more understanding than vocabulary this year, and because he's new there have been gaps with what he assumed we already knew and didn't. however, i thought i knew german better than that. oh well. regardless of which language, i'm interested to see how people scored and how their education situation has been. besides the teacher this year, i probably could have skipped from 5th grade to now to finally get a better german education. unfortunately, when the two german teaching, schools merged in middle school,</p>
<p>oops clicked post....anyway, the other school was so underprepared middle school was all catch up for them. sorry about that ranting. but i'd like to hear what you have to say about language education and sat II scores.</p>
<p>my latin teacher's turning 80 nxt year and he's the world's greatest latin teacher but he didnt even know language SATIIs existed till i told him. therefore, none of us are really prepared but since there are only 6 of us in the AP class, he said he'd look over the book during the summer and teach us based on SATIIs next year. maybe you should ask your teacher to do that for your class or you could get a tutor?</p>
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<p>my latin teacher's turning 80 nxt year</p>
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<p>HOLY ****.</p>
<p>My spanish comprehension really sucks. My listening and speaking are abysmal. But a week before SAT II spanish, i crammed grammar and vocabulary and pulled off a 700. Keep in mind that on practice AP exams i was consistently getting 2s and 3s. IMO, SAT II spanish is an inadequate indicator of your language abilities. APs and IBs are much better.</p>
<p>I took Spanish this year and got a 770. I thought it was a pretty good measure of my ability grammatically speaking, but obviously it doesn't analyze writing, listening, or speech skills (unless you take w/ listening). Did you prep much before the test? I took 2 or 3 practice tests and went over basic stuff that I was rusty on.</p>
<p>What was your percentile?</p>
<p>The precentiles aren't up yet b/c i took it in june. I probably studied for approximately 30 hours before the test, but all of that was spent on memorizing vocab and stupid grammar rules. Oh btw this was just for placement (and credit) at college, and thankfully i'm done with spanish.</p>
<p>paulhomework, I was referring to estargrl. I hadn't seen your post yet, just so you know I wasn't trying to be obnoxious and all I DID WELL SO I THINK IT IS A GOOD INDICATOR. lol</p>
<p>I studied Latin for one year and got a 700.</p>
<p>LOL Yes, the tests DO accurately reflect your knowledge.</p>
<p>Ahhh... funny thread. </p>
<p>But, seriously, I don't know. Languages have so many aspects to them. You might be thrown off by the vocab or sentence structure that appears on one test, while you might ace them on another test. However, w/ the test I took, grammar seems to be the most important element tested. And you really don't have any excuse to not know your grammar. </p>
<p>So, my best bet is that, if you are comfortable with the language, specifically the grammar, you could probably do consistently well on the tests. But for those perfect 800s, some luck is probably needed.</p>
<p>hmm, i don't know what percentile i am. actually i didn't prep a whole ton, i just reviewed a ton of verbs in past tense and a few aspects of grammar.</p>