<p>I have a basic knowledge of French, but haven't studied it since high school, 5 years ago. So I figured I should do the SAT French because at least I have a start in it..</p>
<p>but</p>
<p>I've seen people on here saying that the World History SAT is basically just a case of memorising and learning, and I'm good at learning facts. And not so good at teaching myself grammar, which I've read features heavily in the French test.</p>
<p>Which do you think I should do?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>...wait what? Since high school 5 years ago?!</p>
<p>umm....okay lol I don't really understand. But I will continue from the fact that you have not taken French for a while.</p>
<p>What level do you already understand history? It will help if you have some comprehensive overview - i.e. a good, detailed survey class - in some sort of history. It will be a lot of material to just learn as fact. You need to learn it as a story, so to speak. Then again, if you have only a basic knowledge of French, you should know that the language SATs do normally cover all the important grammar concepts in a language. I'm imagining a lot of subjunctive, prepositions, vocab, etc. that you would have normally discovered over several years of language study.</p>
<p>Anyways in summary, if you have the same amount (or lack of) knowledge in both subjects, study world history. French can very tricky with little nuiances. While world history can also be tricky, it has a very generous curve. About -10 to -20 raw score for 800 if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>Bonne chance.</p>
<p>Aah sorry if I wasn't clear, I'm 21.. I finished high school in 2005. And finished studying French in 2003. I'm from the UK so I don't know how different the US high school system teaches French, but I have a feeling it's more advanced than what I know.</p>
<p>I only did 3 years of history in school, from age 12 to 14.. and that was mostly the World Wars, so my knowledge of history is more limited than my French.</p>
<p>But I figure it might be easier to teach myself the history side of things because as you said it's like learning it as a story. Whereas with French I feel like I'd have to <em>understand</em> it, which I wouldn't have to do so much with history, because it's less.. technical? Hopefully I'm making sense :S</p>
<p>I don't really understand the thing with the curves - what does "About -10 to -20 raw score for 800" mean?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help!</p>