<p>Well I want to take chinese as SAT II but I wonder what the difficulty is.</p>
<p>I’ve learnt chinese for a year and a half as a GCSE course.<br>
My predicted grade for the GCSE chinese exam is an A.
Do you think I can achieve a 700+ for the exam?</p>
<p>Plz reply for those who have taken it!!</p>
<p>Are you of Chinese ethnicity? Don’t bother. Anything less than an 800 will not be seen kindly by the admissions officers, and whether an 800 will help an app is questionable at best. An 800 certainly isn’t hard, but you have only a 1-question room for error.</p>
<p>If you are not Chinese, good luck getting a 700+. Because of the brutal curve, it is very difficult for non-native speakers to do well. But if you do perform well, it will impress the admissions officers greatly.</p>
<p>How hard is the GCSE course?
I took Singapore Cambridge O level Chinese… and it is much harder than SAT II Chinese… (But people who take Singapore Cambridge O level Chinese typically have 9.5 years of Chinese education)… If you are able to read a Chinese newspaper, you are set to do the SAT II Chinese Paper…</p>
<p>uhh… GCSE is ntn compared to O-levels. And I’m def not chinese… I perfectly undertsand that a native taking their native language exam is kinda outrageous and doesnt prove anything.</p>
<p>Well, GCSE is hmm… how can I explain.</p>
<p>Nvm… is there a site for past papers of SAT II chi? I’ve checked with collegeboard and their sample questions seem ridiculously easy… Any sites??</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>The reason native speakers of Chinese take the SAT II Chinese language test is to provide an explanation for low English scores, in most cases. It seems fair to me that a first-generation immigrant whose primary education was in China (and this is a fairly common kind of applicant to the top schools in the United States) would be able to take a test in Chinese, to show that he or she really learned a lot of Chinese before entering an English-speaking environment by immigration. I am a second-language learner of Chinese, but I would be the FIRST to acknowledge that my knowledge of Chinese after a university degree in Chinese was less than that of the typical high school graduate from a Chinese-speaking country.</p>