<p>I'm a little confused if I should take the SAT II Korean test. Most of the people here say that one shouldn't take a SAT II Language test of his own country, since it's pretty obvious that he should know it well. But here's my case: I left Korea fifteen years ago; I have been living in the U.S. for the last decade and a half. Well, since I've gone to a Saturday Korean school (in the U.S.) for several years, I speak, read, and write like an "authentic" Korean. </p>
<p>Do you think I should take the test since I know I could get a perfect score.
Or is it adequate enough to just list it on the college application as a language that I speak well, without taking the test? </p>
<p>Um...check the percentiles for the test off collegeboard.com. Then you'll get a good sense of if you should take it/not.</p>
<p>For example, I know that my friend took the Chinese and recieved like a 720, which is normally a decent score; the percentiles for that test, however, are pretty insane--like 800 is around 80% (correct me if I'm wrong).</p>
<p>Colleges know that Korean was your first language, they aren't going to be impressed by an 800, it is sort of expected. In fact, it's more of a lose lose situation:</p>
<p>If you get an 800, you sort of just wasted your money registering and time taking the test, since colleges will not really care too much about the 800 if you aren't taking Korean as a foreign language.</p>
<p>If you get below an 800, you'll just look like an idiot. </p>
<p>Besides, it also messes up the curve for those students who are actually taking the test as foreign language students.</p>
<p>They have seperate percentile distributions for students that are Korean(I think Korean born) and students who aren't. I also know that colleges get both of these percentile sheets.</p>
<p>It's online btw on the collegeboard website.</p>