<p>I have been told by many that d should not take the French test unless she has “lived in France” and had total submersion in the language.</p>
<p>Has anybody taken it and gotten high grade who has just had 3-4 years of HS French?</p>
<p>My girlfriend got a 5. Her only “upper hand” on others is that she independent studied with a tutor instead of taking the first few years of French. But she has still had 4 years of “teaching” in French without living in France.</p>
<p>However, she’s also a genius. Everyone else at our school who has taken French has never gotten higher than a 4, and most get 2’s. So it just depends on the situation I guess. But you can definitely get a 5 without having lived in France–that’s a ridiculous prerequisitve!</p>
<p>But, it sounds like she was immersed - which is the same. Your schools exp proves tbd point</p>
<p>What do you mean by a ‘high score’? I got a 730 on French with listening after 5 years being taught by teachers who weren’t exactly brilliant. The test isn’t that hard, especially the reading one. Now that I’ve been doing IB French for almost a year, I’m confident that if I retook the test, I could be a lot closer to an 800.</p>