<p>does anybody know the level of difficulty of the sat spanish test? and the lit test? is lit somewhat like crit reading?</p>
<p>I was wondering about the Lit test too.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that lit is similar to but more difficult than CR. The Spanish test is supposedly very difficult for most people, but I find it pretty easy. If you have had several years (preferably four or more) and you study for five or so hours, you should be able to score very well assuming you understand most grammatical concepts.</p>
<p>lol oh…see, I am a natural at spanish i feel i don’t study but still know it alls omewhat…but it’s still standardized somewhat and our school integrates culture a LOT with the language, so it’s probably going to be tough to learn all this supplemental stuff…oh well ^^</p>
<p>if you know all the tenses, things like por v para and preterite v imperfect, and you know your prepositions well…studying a little vocabulary from PR or somebody will be all you really need</p>
<p>yeah I know all of that stuff, i just never learned i think one tense…it was the conditional…but we learned like subjunctive, etc lol…what is PR might i ask?</p>
<p>Princeton Review, the test-prep company. The conditional tense is very simple if you understand the future tense, but I would suggest buying the Princeton Review book. I studied from it for maybe 3-4 hours and I was scoring 750-800 on practice tests, it’s definitely a good investment</p>
<p>I have heard it’s very easy. On the other hand, most native spanish speakers take the test (well, duh) and that distorts percentiles. A friend of mine got a 790 and ended up in the 89th percentile. I don’t think colleges look at the percentile because they understand that the percentiles are pretty meaningless in language tests. I’ve heard it’s not hard though.</p>
<p>I took the test…thought I was doing pretty good during the test…score comes out to a 500…9th percentile hahahhaha. Seriously though, as I was doing it I was like, “Yea! I know this!” Thought I could break 650 at least…but I guess not. A lot of vocab, a lot of grammar. IB does not go well with the SAT curriculum (since it focuses more on expression rather than grammar)…though on the other hand AP people would fare much better.</p>
<p>Ehh, I just got my SATII Spanish results back, and I have to say I was amazingly disappointed. After having taken 5 years of Spanish with straight As throughout…I would have expected a better score than a 600. =(</p>
<p>I took the test with listening the first time… bad choice on my part! Although I felt like I knew all of the grammar on the test, I only knew about half of the vocab. So I took it again without listening (the best option for a gringo like me), but not before learning about 1000 new vocab words. It was a lot of work, but this is useful stuff! Anyway, I raised my score from a 640 to a 730.</p>