<p>Does anyone know what the curve of the Italian SAT Subject Test is? Or at least someone who had taken it before, was it generous the previous years? I guess I'm going to have 3 mistakes max, but I'd like to know if it's possible to still get 800 on it.</p>
<p>The curve is decent but not fantastic because it’s mainly native/fluent speakers that take the test. They really mess the curve up because they know it all and get 800s.</p>
<p>If you only missed 1 or 2 you definitely got an 800, and still probably if you only missed 3.</p>
<p>truzzi, thank you very much! I hope you’re right, because I checked and I’ve already got one mistake, most likely I’ve gotten one more wrong and there is one more that I’m not sure about. And these are only the ones that I recall, so there is a pretty big chance that I actually have more than two mistakes. I looked at a table from the collegeboard website which said that a 93 percentage or higher can get you an 800 which makes it a raw score of 77+, so basically you have the right of 4 mistakes or 5 omitted questions. I so hope this is the curve for this year’s test, as well, as I don’t think I made more than 4 mistakes. Anyway, is there anyone else that already took Italian or is going to later today?</p>
<p>I took it! I am not a native speaker, but I thought it was a little easier than I expected. I probably missed a few though… I thought the fill in the blank and the grammar section were fairly easy, but I got a little tripped up on the passage about eco-pools. From what I know the Italian curve is pretty rough. I think 3 wrong might be a 790 (it is in the College Board practice test version) because most people taking the test are native speakers.</p>
<p>The curve for the December 1999 test = 4 omit, 0 wrong was the minimum points for an 800. The “93” that you’re referring to isn’t a percentage-- it’s a percentile. If the 93rd percentile achieves 800, that means that 7% of test takers get an 800.</p>
<p>I just took the test and found it easier than I had expected. Perhaps some of it was good luck, because there weren’t any unfamiliar vocab words. I omitted 2 grammar questions and one reading question, so when factoring in my possible mistakes I’m predicting +750. For what it’s worth, I’m not a native speaker either; I speak Spanish fluently, but I’ve only been studying Italian for a few months. Oh well, hopefully not many native speakers took the test.</p>
<p>Buona fortuna! :]</p>
<p>According to the blue book’s test, 78+/82 is an 800.</p>
<p>Somnambulant, my bad, you’re right. I just checked again and it seems I haven’t read it correctly, it is percentile. Anyway, it still seems that the average raw score for an 800 is 78+ according to various books and tables. It was really easy indeed, though there are some questions that totally messed me up. Someone willing to discuss them with me on PM?</p>
<p>Guys, does anyone remember the answers to the following questions: </p>
<p>1) The first question about the women and music - there was a collocation in the first sentence “vivo e …”, the possible answers were “corto”, “rumoroso”, “rotto” and one more. What was the answer to that?</p>
<p>2) About the eco-pools, what was the thing that distinguished them from regular pools? In the end I was hesitating between the answer that they needed unfamiliar plants and the answer that they were beneficial to the environment, but I think I chose the first one, because after all, though they were ecological, I don’t think anywhere in the text was mentioned how exactly those pools helped the environment.</p>
<p>3) The question about the father, who went to Florence - it was because he wanted to see his older daughter, right?!?</p>
<p>@disorder</p>
<p>1) I put the other answer that you can’t remember (but I can’t remember what it was either)-none of those words make any sense in context.
2) I said that they were beneficial for the environment because it never specifically said that they were unfamiliar plants, and the other answers didn’t make sense.
3) Yes, I said that is was because he wanted to see his older daughter.</p>
<p>800!!! I am completely self taught (I have never spoken Italian with anyone), so this is really exciting!</p>