SAT French Practice Tests

MwasereWriter
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:40:08 +0000

This test is hard…I can only think that there are native speakers (e.g., Quebecois who want to go to the States for college) who are taking up the high end of the curve…As is the case with the Asian languages.

My daughter has been tutored in French, by native speakers, since the age of 4, has won Bronze Medals on the national French, exam, and spent six weeks over the last two years in intensive French language immersion programs in France…She speaks French fairly fluently. Last fall, she received only a 660 on the French with listening…Which is on the low side for the colleges she wants to apply to. She continues to take French (she’s a junior) and will take the exam again come November.

Your son may do much better on the French w/listening (offered only in fall) given his background. Certainly that was the case with my daughter; the listening section pulled up her score.

We plan on spending two weeks in France at our language school before the exam, where she can get intensive tutoring focussed toward the exam…
Hoping it helps. French is really a strong point for her, and it bugs me that she did so much better in biology than French!

HTH…