<p>Has anyone done this? im debating on whether i should take spanish sat II, but i heard the curve is harsh because basically i'd be the only non-hispanic person in the room lol. anecdotes or advice?</p>
<p>It’s not hard at all if you know Spanish well. How long have you been studying?</p>
<p>5 years hahaaa but i wouldn’t necessarily say im completely fluent. if you talk to me in spanish, i understand what you are saying but it takes me awhile to come up with the appropriate response using proper grammar. it doesn’t roll off my tongue. and also my vocabulary is lacking. but i don’t think sat II is a lot of vocabulary is it? so im not really worried about that. i guess i fear the curve.</p>
<p>Buy the College Board’s SAT Subject tests Study Guide. You can buy it on Barnes & Noble or on the College Board’s website. You can take a practice test now and get a very good idea on how much you would need to prep to do well (a “baseline”). If you’ve had 5 yrs. of Spanish, I would think that you’d do very well. All you need is that study guide and a few weeks to prepare, but you have to set the time aside to prep! And take several timed practice exams before the actual test. You can do it!</p>
<p>I think you can do it. Five years is a lot, but you have to dedicate a few weeks/months to learn the vocabulary and the grammar. You must also get used to reading spanish.</p>
<p>I’ve taken Japanese for two years, thought I’ve been learning a lot, did worse than I could have ever imagined.</p>
<p>Don’t take it. I’ve been taking spanish for 12 years and took intermediate spanish 2 at my local community college and got an A. I took the sat and prepped for it and still only got a 570. There’s not a ton on specifically what words mean, but there is a lot of reading comprehension with many uncommon words. I’m able to understand people and respond fairly quickly but this test was well beyond that. I would suggest waiting til next november if you can and taking the listening test, which has a much better curve and is much easier.</p>
<p>I don’t know - I think I agree with jamdur316. I don’t know the Spanish test that well, but the Hebrew test was really hard. Both me and my sister have been studying the language for 9 years, and I decided not to take the test because she only got a 560. It really is curved badly by the native speakers.</p>
<p>The Spanish reading SAT II is not that difficult. I had been studying Spanish for about a year and a half (intensively, I will admit, almost every day) when I scored an 800 in October of this year. I am non-native. I scored a 720 in April before that, also in this year. You need to know a lot of vocabulary. I’ve been studying Spanish since that test date (the 800) every single day, and I still have a lot to learn. I say that to say that the test is not that difficult, even for non-natives. Spanish, like most languages, is very vast, but the test only tests basic sentence completion, paragraph completion, and reading comprehension (with the questions coming in the same order as the material surfaces in the passages!!)</p>
<p>I think Japanese and maybe Hebrew, as mentioned, might be different. I think Japanese would be way different considering the amount of natives that take it in proportion with the non-natives, and also how difficult Japanese is. But Spanish, on the other hand, is very doable. I used the Barron’s Spanish book and online practice tests (after studying the language solely on my own at home). It has a great grammar review and 10 practice tests. I encourage you to do it, but it will take a lot of dedication to learn the grammar and vocabulary. It will take more than a few months to prepare, but don’t do it if you don’t plan on continuing your study of Spanish. I knew a lot of vocab coming in from reading a bunch in Spanish and looking up words I didn’t know and outright studying Spanish dictionaries. I memorized the dictionaries in my school’s Spanish 3 book (although I didn’t take Spanish at the school the last two years), Barron’s SATII review book, and AP Spanish book. If you want any more help/advice/resources, PM me. </p>
<p>Spanish is worth your time, even after the SAT. The ability to speak Spanish is a great asset to have. Also, if you have a solid grammatical foundation in English, Spanish will come so much more easily. Grammar will help you master the language in a fraction of the time it would take people who don’t know its grammar.</p>
<p>The listening test will almost definitely be harder for a non-native than the reading. The curves are essentially the same. If anything, it is harder to get an 800 on the listening (<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools) Natives will do better on the listening since that is usually how they are exposed to Spanish. </p>
<p>If you do take the listening, order some Spanish tv stations or listen to the radio online (informaci</p>
<p>Wow thanks for all the responses guys!
I recently took a practice one from the blue book and I scored a 680, which is okay, I guess. I think with studying I could get a good score. but I’m still vacillating between other subject tests (spanish or math?) Because I don’t really want to take more than 3 subject tests 
Because if I have to report all scores, wouldn’t taking more than 3 look a little bit desperate?</p>