AP French vs. SAT French subject test vs. TFI

Catria · November 26, 2012, 5:34pm

It’s not so much because I’m studying for those tests than because I have a tentative marketing plan for my school that I’m posting this. The problem is, my school is a francophone Canadian school that does not currently accept AP French or SAT French subject test scores.

<a href=“Admission - Université de Montréal”>Admission - Université de Montréal; - The proof for my claim is here, and no mention whatsoever to the SAT or the ACT in that document

However, my classmates told me that my plan, as currently devised, would only attract additional French-language literature majors (as understood at any Quebec school, a French-language literature major would cover both French and Quebec literature) and not have much of an effect on other majors. Even though international tuition ranges from $14,800 to $19,500 a year, which is a lot less expensive than most OOS tuition or private schools’ tuition and a little more expensive than the typical in-state tuition, my own school has much better programs in fields like criminology (one of the few majors that can be given the “reach-for-anyone” qualifier at a Quebecer school aside from some healthcare majors or law school), physics, than the vast majority of American Us in that price range.

Here’s the outline of my tentative marketing plan as currently devised:

Perhaps the plan is not viable if the TFI differs greatly from the AP French test or the SAT II French test. Or that the bar is set too low for the SAT II. But how different are the TFI, the AP French test or the French SAT II between one another?

joshroz · November 26, 2012, 6:35pm

I read over a sample test for TFI because I didn’t know what it is. Here’s a rough comparison:
Listening Comprehension

the questions are slightly easier than the ones on the AP exam. Especially the first part. This is because the listening on the AP on long context-based questions rather than comprehension based on 2 sentences. The SAT French does not measure comprehension.

Grammar:

AP does not contain questions that explicitly test grammar (they completely removed the grammar section last year). The grammar tested is slightly easier than the ones on SAT French.

Reading Comprehension:
About the same level as SAT French. AP French is slightly harder with more complex vocabulary.

I find the vocabulary to be more limited on the TFI than those found on AP or SAT.

I hope this helps.

Catria · November 26, 2012, 7:37pm

Thank you. This preliminary data indicates that my plan can actually work.

Come to think of it, I should modify the thresholds required for each test in the plan since there are currently 3 thresholds in use by the school, depending on the major:

AP threshold/TFI threshold/SAT II threshold

3/605/570
4/785/650
5/850/720

The highest threshold is reserved to the 0-6 MD and DMD (dental school) programs and 0-5 PharmD (for in-province students these are respectively 0-5 and 0-4), not that there’s many American students who would apply to a Quebec university for med school, dental school or pharmacy.

AP French vs. SAT French subject test vs. TFI

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