<p>I'm kinda curious to how people score based on their education. If you're a non-native, what'd you get? Whats your education?</p>
<p>Me:</p>
<p>AP - 3
SAT II - 510
JLPT - Did not take</p>
<p>Education - 5 years in middle/high school (with a significantly slower teacher)</p>
<p>Did not have native family or exposure in natural setting.</p>
<p>AP - 2
SAT II - haven’t taken it yet, but I did well on the practice one I took online and it said I would likely get around 700-800… and this was BEFORE the AP
JLPT - haven’t taken</p>
<p>Education - 3 years in high school (but not AP Japanese because our school doesn’t offer it); hadn’t been to Japan (though I have since); non-native</p>
<p>Though I think I deserve what I got as I didn’t really start studying until a couple of months before the test and even then it was on-and-off, I am a little surprised that I didn’t at least get a 3. I knew I’d screwed up on the speaking section, but I understood a lot of the listening section and pretty much the entire reading section as well as writing with creativity and many untaught words (though on one of the text messages I didn’t have time to write “da” and hence left my sentence hanging). I’m guessing that either I got basically a 0% on the speaking AND listening or the curve is small to nonexistent. Maybe it’s a little of both. Think I should get it rescored?</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard since, no one at my school has gotten above a 3 and the few people who’ve gotten those have usually been seniors who have been to Japan and are still among the best students in their classes. Even someone who’d been, like, three times and was cited by Japanese students to speak almost fluently only got a 1. Maybe my school just has a lousy Japanese program.</p>
<p>My school also has no AP Jpn program, just a 5th year class of 4 people who do self study. Traditionally, few take it where I’m at, but the highest is a 2 or 3 for those who did.
8 people in my district took the test; 2 were non-native. I expected a 2 actually, but I think my somewhat reasonable accent helped. </p>
<p>Just keep in mind; 50% are 5s, 33% are 1s. The other 15% are strewn throughout. Japanese is not a language commonly taught for fluency in high school.</p>
<p>I mainly wish the test had taken place AFTER I’d been to Japan. The speaking and listening skills I built on that trip, as well as the hundreds of vocabulary words and dozens of kanji I learned - though it only lasted two and a half weeks - were substantial and people have noticed my improvements. Now that I think about it, it’s a little silly that AP tests are only given once a year, since I’d likely get a 3 or even a 4 if I took it now. Oh, well. At least I can still take the Japanese SAT Subject Test.</p>
<p>誰か言いたい？僕たちは孤独だの～</p>
<p>Since I’m Chinese,I think Japanese is easy at first.But actually,Japanese seems to be more harder than I expected.I recommend you to score SAT2 Japanese.It’s easy,really.Though I just had studied 2 months,I could do almost every question.Listening seems not so hard.The question about grammar may be hard,but if you study hard,it’s fine.</p>
<p>And,do you know JLPT? I mean,the difficulty of SAT Japanese is similar to N2,or even just N3.That is,SAT Japanese is easy.
AP Japanese is hard.Because it needs your spoken skills.Really,if you haven’t got any class,you’d better not risk.</p>
<p>Japanese has hiragana and katakana, which Chinese doesn’t have. However, Chinese consists only of characters. Japanese people can often understand Chinese, but not the other way around.</p>
<p>Update: I got a 690 on an official practice test, which I’m guessing corresponds to way over a 2 on the AP. Damn it.</p>
<p>^^ Disagree. The difficulty of SAT II shouldn’t be compared to that of JLPT(Japanese Language Proficiency Test) N2; you’re not expected to know half as many kanji characters nor are you tested as intensely on your knowledge of vocabulary and expressions. Also, the SAT II is only for an hour as opposed to the JLPT, which is >3 hours for the higher levels. I actually think that AP Japanese is closer to SAT II in terms of difficulty, except that it has a speaking section, which isn’t too hard as long as you are able to speak in an articulate manner. </p>
<p>As for the OP’s question, I took 2.5 years of Japanese at school. I do not have Japanese-speaking family members and I have not been to Japan except for a 3-day trip. I did, however, study kanji on my own and watch a lot of anime during my free time.</p>
<p>AP: 5
SAT II: 780
JLPT: N2</p>
<p>Could someone told me if it’s useful tp take AP Japanese for College ?</p>
<p>of course. foreign language test is always helpful.</p>
<p>JLPT: N1
AP: 5</p>
<p>Non-native but I’m Chinese, which makes it a whole lot easier.
For AP you don’t need to know too many kanjis/grammar, but you need to practice the speaking part. There’s a 2 minute oral presentation at the end.
It’s hard to get a perfect on the SAT because the curve is pretty harsh.</p>
<p>Bump :3</p>
<p>Another bump? :D</p>
<p>At least this bump is far after my first… People often bump their posts after 15 minutes…</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure what the purpose in bumping a 2 year old thread serves, particularly when you are not the OP and this year’s AP scores don’t come out for another month. If you have a new question, start a new discussion.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken the sat and ap test, but I’ve passed the jlpt n2 test and got 164.
I’m currently studying for sat and ap, and I think n2 is a lot harder than both of them. </p>