jasonInNy

Hello,

For those of you who have done well on Physics SAT 2, how did you prepare?
I was just wondering how other people prepared differently from me.

Thanks.

christiansoldier

I read through PR and Kaplan. I also took AP Physics B and had already read through the PR, Barrons, and McGraw Hill AP books.

jasonInNy

Jeez. Thats alot of reading and studying for physics. Trouble is, most people have multiple APs and SAT 2 at the end of Junior year.

Sucks to be a junior

Adrenaline

^ "a lot".

PLEASE.

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Alex7592

I could give you advice but it would be "how to get a 600 on Physics"

jasonInNy

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Can people start listing some things such as what books they used and how their practice test scores matched their real scores?

altec_lansing

I just used the Kaplan book and read over it once taking notes. Then i took a practice test and got 760 so I read over some of the chapters again, took two more practice tests, got 800 on both.

Took 3 days for me, but I already knew everything that was on the test already.. just needed to brush up on some old stuff.

I can't really comment on any of the other books (PR, Barrons, etc..) b/c I haven't had a look at them.

jasonInNy

Thats ridiculous how a raw score of 59/75 is a 800.

People are like retarded lol If the curve is that good.

bitturiju

Since I am in the IB, I was already well prepared. As for me, it was year round hard work that paid off.
Book I can recommend..well all the Barrons books, and well I don't know about you, but iTunes U helped me a lot.

ahsanxr

I've never studied Physics in my life before I started studying for this. I can safely say that PR helped me learn a lot of the material. Most of the chapters are really explained well. I haven't truly evaluated myself though, since I haven't done a practice test yet. Today I'll be doing the last topic (Optics) and then start practice tests and revision from tomorrow. I would consider it a decent achievement if I manage a score above 720 on the real thing.

BuddyMcAwesome

I got an 800 on Physics last year. Here's what I did:
One of the Honors/AP Physics teachers had an SAT II prep thing before school one day a week to teach us the stuff that might be on the SAT II that wasn't in our curriculum or we wouldn't learn yet. I also took 2 practice tests from the PR book and got 750's on both of them. I would usually leave about 8 blank and get a handful wrong.
On the actual test day it was a lot easier than the PR books, I left none blank and only guessed on 2.

jasonInNy

^^ interesting idea about the in school SAT 2 prep thing in the morning.

So the PR is harder than the real thing?

asheroth

you need a 59 raw for an 800

but the test is just hard

jasonInNy

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