<p>OK, I'm taking:</p>
<p>World History
Latin
French (reading)</p>
<p>Who can tell me which books are the best to prepare for these? I bought Princeton's WorldHist book and it's crap. Unorganized and horrible.</p>
<p>French (reading)- Barron's SAT Subject Test for French. I don't know if they released a new version, but the one I got from the library, which I think was an older edition, was great.</p>
<p>BUT, I'll give you a warning now--language subject tests are not exactly something that a book can outline and help you 100%. What I mean by that is, there is some degree of built-up knowledge required to do well since the curriculum they can be testing you on will be so far left field half off the time you would have never experienced it unless you've delved really deeply into the language. Beyond that though, there's also a sense of linguistic aptitude necessary because, yes you'll need to know complex grammar and vocabulary to do well, but yeah there's bound to be at least one word on the test you'll have to guess its meaning through context. If you've taken the AP test (and did well) and know how to do all this, you'll be fine (you may not even need a study guide for the test). If not, the Barron's book can only help you so much.</p>
<p>OH, but study grammar! That's the most straightforward part of the test (even if there's A LOT to know) :)</p>
<p>ugh, the problem is that I don't know how much I've done in French. </p>
<p>Grammatically, I'm pretty safe. We've done everything up to the subjonctif present and I think that will suffice. Y/N?</p>
<p>And vocab... --> :/ <--</p>
<p>The grammar ranges from imparfait/passe compose to past conditional... There was one or two questions on subjonctif, but I don't remember sorry. It's not only verb conjugations; it's also object pronouns (me/te/lui/nous/vous/leur/la/le/les/y/en lol), when to use them, which verbs to use them with, etc... Okay, I take back what I say--use the Barron's to study up for grammar! xD</p>
<p>As for vocabulary, I don't know what to tell you, sorry. You usually build up your vocabulary over the years through reading and writing, but if you want just a foundation, you can go out and buy the SparkNotes French vocabulary cards. There are around 500 but if you can bust it out and get them down before the test, at least you'll have more of a chance to understand a lot of the reading passages.</p>
<p>pffft, all non-verb elements of grammar are easy stuff. except mabye syntax, but hopefully I won't see a lot of si's. </p>
<p>there's a ~500 word list in my barron's french book so I'll learn those just to be on the safe side. </p>
<p>god, do i not know what i'm getting myself into or what XD</p>
<p>Hmm... well just be prepared to read for understanding in passages and guess words based off of their contexts. I ran across a few words I had never seen before (tailleur, ombrage, pileul), but I knew how to deal with them thanks to the practice I had done with Reading Comprehension.</p>
<p>Sorry if I'm exaggerating the difficulty of the test... you may get to it and think it's easier than what you expected. It's not as hard as the AP test but it will be difficult enough to challenge you, I guarantee it.</p>
<p>Good luck, though. And if you have any questions, just PM me.</p>