<p>I'm currently finishing 10th grade at my Chinese School. (I've taken Chinese for...8-9 years; I started when I was 7). My Chinese is okay (not the best). I speak Chinese at home, but I might have difficulty on the critical reading section. I will continue taking Chinese next year, and plan to finish 12th grade in the future. Anyways, I was wondering, should I take the Chinese SAT II's this Nov. or should I wait until next year?</p>
<p>There is only one offering each November. There will be one this year, and I will take it then. You are more than fine and may even be able to take the AP exam in May 2007.
There are only listening, usage, and comprehension sections.</p>
<p>i would recommend you to take it this coming november if you speak Chinese at home. Just do some practice, and you should be ready.</p>
<p>The test is really simple; don't sweat it.</p>
<p>But be careful about stupid mistakes...don't end up getting a 790 =)</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm in a sort of similar situation, but I'm sure your Chinese is infinitely better than mine. I used to take weekly Chinese lessons (hour-a-week type thing, which is definitely not the same as taking an official, school-sponsored AP class that meets every other day). I speak a mixture of Chinese and English at home-- definitely more proficient with the latter-- but Chinese is technically my first language (permanent resident with Chinese citizenship, immigrated at age three). I've taken a few practice tests (HSK), and I typically get perfect scores on the listening section and stumble over the comprehension. </p>
<p>I'm wondering if I should even take the SAT test, since there's no chance I would get an 800. In fact, I'm projecting low 700s, which I believe is below average. Would it make me look worse to take the test and get a lackluster score, or refrain from taking the test, even though I'm a Chinese citizen? Help?</p>
<p>lunar_years: i think if one of your dream schools want you to excel in foreign languages, just take them , if not, why make yourself look bad?
I also have a problem:
how about A chinese Canadian residing in shanghai, should I take Chinese(800 no prob. been in Asia for like 4 years), will it seem like nothing because I'm in China? However, I did struggle at a chinese public school for 2 years to improve my Chinese, so to me its an achievement, but for the admisson staff???</p>
<p>The chinese subject test is over-estimated. I managed a 750 and I had only just begun learning characters (knew about 500 characters, which isn't much). </p>
<p>To give you an insight on how bad I was, I had to figure out what several characters on the reading were (but managed to do so, hopefully). The listening killed me a bit, not because it was hard, but because I didn't get to hear parts of the last two questions as my headphones were (unbeknown to me) broken in one ear.</p>
<p>edit: native speakers with a good amount of character recognition (1500-2500?) should have no problems scoring an 800.</p>
<p>edit2: and I am undoubtedly retaking it, 758 was the average and I know more characters now.</p>