<p>I have self studied Korean for two years already. I have been studying from legit books and I think I am good enough for the SAT II Korean with Listening. I have tried the SAT II in some other languages I have self studied like German and Latin. My test scores on those SATs were 800/800. I studied both of those languages for three years though. </p>
<p>Should I take the risk or no?</p>
<p>keep in mind that the Asian language exams are frequently taken by native/home-speaking Asian students and as those speakers are not separated from classroom-taught speakers, the curve is brutal, to say the least.</p>
<p>Why are they taking those tests, if they didn’t learn the material in HS? Don’t the SATs measure what you learn in HS?</p>
<p>My impression is that the University of California system requires 2 SAT2 tests and they don’t mind if you are taking it in your family’s language.</p>
<p>I’m Korean (born in America) and I plan on taking it in November too… I hope colleges won’t see this as a way of “easing through” a test?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, they will.</p>
<p>As far as I know, many Korean students taking SAT Korean are not at all fluent with Korean language becuase they were brought up in US most of their lives. Native/home-speakin Korean students are very well aware, or should be if not, that univs do check the students’ background before actually appreciating their Korean language proficiency.</p>
<p>Yeah. I’m Korean-American and got 800 on the Korean with Listening just for safety in case I fail the other subject tests (I had time to check my answers 4 times lol) </p>
<p>But I still took another extra subject test (US History) on top of Math II and got 700 on it.</p>
<p>there is no evidence that taking a language of your mother tongue will hurt you in any way. It shows that you know an extra language which is good. The best would be take two other subjects and use language as a back up, and if u do well on all 3, send em all (:</p>
<p>The average score is a ~760 for the Chinese/Korean SATs. If you are native, there is really no point, colleges will just see it as an easy language. If you are non-native then it would be pretty impressive to get a 800. Do what you like it wont hurt you I guess.</p>