<p>I'm considering taking the Spanish Language test next fall because well, it's actually a long story. but the problem is that by then I'll only have had 3 years of spanish. How many years do most people have before taking language subject tests? I would really like to get over a 650 but I don't know how reasonable that is. This summer I'm going to Switzerland to study Italian (that's what I want to major in in college) but I could study my Spanish during the weeks that I'm home. I've gotten A's all three years of spanish, but I still feel like I don't really know the language, so basically, can anyone who has taken spanish or another languae give me advise on how hard the test generally is?</p>
<p>I would say take it, college board states that the recommended prep would be 3-4 years of spanish, or two years of strong prep. So, just study a lot and you should be fine.</p>
<p>I'd say it'll be tough with only 3 years of prep, but it's nothing impossible. Somebody from my school and I took the French SAT II in the middle of our 3rd year of French (we were the two top students... I was one of the top in my entire region though ^^), I scored 760 and he scored something like 630. So yeah, it depends on how good you are...</p>
<p>Anyhow, studying Italian should definitely help you in Spanish too! All the Romance languages are pretty strongly tied (although Italian is far closer to Latin than the others), so studying one will help you in the others. I know, cause I studied French, Spanish, and Italian (Italian far less than the others though) =]</p>
<p>Getting back to the point... Pick up a SAT II Spanish prep book and look through it. If it looks way too hard, I'd just give up. If it looks pretty hard, but not infeasible, then do it! When I took the French SAT (Regrettably with no prep whatsoever), the test looked freaking hard (well, the reading comp was... grammar was pretty easy), but I still scored pretty high cause the curve was pretty generous. So yeah, look it up and decide for yourself....</p>