Sat subject tests with listening - how does this work?

[chocolate-chip chooky]

Have any of your children sat any SAT subject tests with listening? My daughter has Korean with listening in early November.

I'm wondering how these actually work 🤔

We know she needs to bring a portable CD player (my goodness, what dinosaur technology!) and they will hand her a CD, but what then? 

Is the CD somehow made so that you can't re-listen to a track? Do all students listen track-by-track at the same time?

Thanks for your help. I can't find this info on the College Board site.

[chocolate-chip chooky]

I'm just bumping this, hoping someone will chime in.

[Mom0012]

My dd had wanted to take the Spanish with listening test because she scored higher on practice tests with that than the reading only one, It’s been a while, but I know I was thinking it had to be a Walkman-type of device and while I had a couple of those around the house (from the 80s!), none of her worked reliably any more. When I looked for similar devices on amazon, they all had extremely poor reviews for reliability. In the end, I felt there were too many things that could go wrong with the listening test, so we went with the reading one, I read many university world language SAT 2 placement/credit requirements and even contacted the Spanish departments at a few schools to see whether they preferred one test over the other and none of the schools that I looked at did.

If I were going to pursue a listening test, I would call the school and get clarification from whoever administers the test about exactly what type of device you need and how the test is administered. 

[Mabelen]

My older daughter took the Spanish with Listening, but I am afraid she doesn’t remember details, it was 8 years ago! 

[chocolate-chip chooky]

7 hours ago, Mom0012 said:

My dd had wanted to take the Spanish with listening test because she scored higher on practice tests with that than the reading only one, It’s been a while, but I know I was thinking it had to be a Walkman-type of device and while I had a couple of those around the house (from the 80s!), none of her worked reliably any more. When I looked for similar devices on amazon, they all had extremely poor reviews for reliability. In the end, I felt there were too many things that could go wrong with the listening test, so we went with the reading one, I read many university world language SAT 2 placement/credit requirements and even contacted the Spanish departments at a few schools to see whether they preferred one test over the other and none of the schools that I looked at did.

If I were going to pursue a listening test, I would call the school and get clarification from whoever administers the test about exactly what type of device you need and how the test is administered. 

I can't believe they need to use a portable CD player. I'm having 90s flashbacks 🙂     We bought one and it stopped working after two uses. It's been returned for a refund. We've just bought another one (different brand) and we're hoping this one will go the distance 🙄

As far as I can tell, the Korean subject test is only offered with listening, so it's this or nothing. 

I'll get in touch with the test supervisor for more details - great idea, thank you.