<p>Well it's down to cramming time for those of us taking the Spanish (without listening) on October 14. What book are ya'll using to study? I have a Kaplan's book right now and I just took a diagnostic test...but unlike other test-prep books there is no conversion chart to change your raw score into the one on a 200-800 scale. Does anybody know how many questions you can miss/leave blank/some combination of the two and still receive an 800? </p>
<p>I guess I just saw this thread for other tests and thought it was a good idea...I don't know how many Spanish test-takers there are out there but we can post here together for the next 6 days.</p>
<p>Oye vey!
I'm taking the Spanish SAT II on October 14th, too. Feeling ready, j0?</p>
<p>Due to my lack of resources, since I live in a rather interesting place, I'm stuck with a Spanish SAT II study guide that is more then a decade old, a Spanish outline by Schaum's Easy Outlines, and a borrowed Spanish III book. I've got four years worth of spanish on my record, but since I lacked practice over the summer, it takes me a really long time to process vocabularly now. T__T I just took a diagnostic, and well... let's just say that it was pretty bad.</p>
<p>By the way, how many years of spanish prep have you all had before taking the Spanish SAT II?
Also, can any veterans of the Spanish SAT II tell me about how many years worth of spanish would prepare a test-taker thoroughly? And what should future takers of the Spanish SAT II should focus on studying?
Also, colleges won't look down on the fact you didn't take the Spanish SAT II w/out listening, right? </p>
<p>Wow. I didn't know I had that many questions when I began to type. :P</p>
<p>I'm in my fifth year of Spanish right now, AP/IB Spanish Lit. I'm pretty fluent (but not from schooling, from my family) but even with all those Spanish classes I am not so up-to-date on all the picky grammar rules. </p>
<p>Colleges won't look down on you for not taking the test with listening at all, I don't think. If I had to guess, I would say that more native speakers take the test with Listening, but I'm not positive about that. </p>
<p>I just took my first diagnostic and didn't do so wonderfully. </p>
<p>Tommorow is the day! AHHHH.
I had a review session with my ex-spanish teacher yesterday, and I'm feeling better now.
This should have been my fifth year, too... except for the fact that they didn't offer AP Spanish Lit or Language here. Boo!</p>
<p>Best of luck! Due to the dates and stuff, I'm taking it a day earlier than you. :)</p>
<p>i took the spanish test last year and all mistakes i made were due to vocabulary. i'm fluent in mexican spanish and i was 100% solid with all the grammar rules and was rounding out the end of second year college Spanish so i'd had enough practice, but i didn't really study except to try to learn new words. however, if you can get the grammar parts right then you should be ok for when those random words pop up.</p>
<p>my advice is to go over verb charts, etc. i used the Princeton Review book and it was really helpful.</p>