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Each Subject Test is scored on a 200-to-800 scale. Each Subject Test is one hour long. Not every Subject Test is offered on every test date. Not every question has to be answered correctly to get an 800

French 85 multiple choice questions offered in Oct, Dec, Jan, May and June Skills Measured: 30% Vocabulary in context; 30-40% Structure; 30-40% Reading Comprehension an acceptable CD player with earphones required French with Listening 85 multiple choice questions

offered in Nov only

35%

Listening section
Pictures 812 questions | Identify the sentence that most accurately describes what is presented in a picture or photograph Short dialogues 612 questions | Answer general content questions based on short dialogues or monologues Long dialogues 1015 questions | Answer more specific questions based on longer dialogues or monologues

65%

Reading section
Vocabulary 1620 questions Structure 1620 questions Reading Comprehension 2025 questions

German

85 multiple choice questions

complies with German spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform)

offered in June only offered in Nov only

Skills Measured: 50% Vocabulary in context and Grammar; 50% Reading Comprehension an acceptable CD player with earphones required German with Listening 85 multiple choice questions

35%

Listening section
Type One | Contains short dialogues/monologues with one or two multiple choice questions. Dialogues/monologues, questions and answer choices are recorded. Questions are also printed in the test book Type Two | Contains longer dialogues and monologues with several multiple choice questions. Dialogues/monologues and questions are only recorded and not printed in the test book. Answer choices are not recorded; they appear only in the test book

65%

Reading section
Vocabulary in context Grammar Reading Comprehension using authentic stimulus materials and passages

Modern Hebrew

85 multiple choice questions

No material is written in biblical Hebrew; some passages may have biblical references

offered in June only

Skills Measured: 30% Vocabulary in context; 30% Grammar; 40% Reading Comprehension (most passages are vocalized)

Italian 80-85 multiple choice questions offered in Dec Skills Measured: 30% Vocabulary in context; 30% Grammar; 40% Reading Comprehension
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Spanish 85 multiple choice questions offered in Oct, Dec, Jan, May and June Skills Measured: 33% Vocabulary and Structure; 33 Paragraph Completion; 33% Reading Comprehension an acceptable CD player with earphones required Spanish with Listening 85 multiple choice questions

offered in Nov only

40%

Listening section
Pictures | Identify the sentence that most accurately describes what is presented in a photograph or what someone in the photograph might say Rejoinders | Identify a plausible continuation of a short conversation Selections | Answer comprehension questions based on more extensive listening selections

60%

Reading section

Vocabulary and Structure Paragraph completion Reading Comprehension

Latin

70-75 multiple choice questions

offered in Dec and June

Skills Measured 30% Grammar and syntax 5% Derivatives Translation and reading comprehension Reading comprehension portion includes 3 to 5 reading passages and 1 or 2 poetry passages. A set 65% of questions following a poetry passage always includes one question requiring students to scan the first four feet of a line of dactylic hexameter verse or to determine the number of elisions in a line.

an acceptable CD player with earphones required Chinese with Listening 95 multiple choice questions Skills Measured: 33% Listening Comprehension; 33 Usage; 33% Reading Comprehension an acceptable CD player with earphones required Japanese with Listening 80 multiple choice questions Skills Measured: 35% Listening Comprehension; 30 Usage; 35% Reading Comprehension an acceptable CD player with earphones required Korean with Listening 80 multiple choice questions Skills Measured: 35% Listening Comprehension; 30 Usage; 35% Reading Comprehension

offered in Nov only

offered in Nov only

offered in Nov only

for 2010 college-bound seniors

Subject Test French French with Listening German German with Listening Spanish Spanish with Listening Modern Hebrew Italian Latin Chinese with Listening Japanese with Listening Korean with Listening

National mean (average) score

State mean score for New York

State mean score for New Jersey

Percentile rank for a 700 score

Percentile rank for a 800 score*

620 639 612 604 644 653 614 663 619 761 688 764

632 651 639 597 632 633 612 565 637 762 687 771

586 599 568 558 610 607 663 605 593 761 702 773

68 65 69 67 61 54 64 51 71 12 37 11

89 87 91 89 92 95 84 89 96 57 86 63