<p>Does anyone know if the application is up yet? I signed up for that website appyourself.com and it says to click on the link below but there is no link for me. Idk if it is bc its not up yet or its bc i did something wrong. Pls help me!</p>
Anyone received the spring course description yet?
How many people have applied?
im taking the test in a few weeks.. does any one remember what types of questions are on it?
Wow…just read this massive 162-page thread O_O … I don’t even…What.
In all seriousness though, I’m a freshman taking the exam either late March or April (they haven’t given me my exact date yet) and my school system is really screwy so I’m taking physics instead of the standard biology freshman year.
8th grade was a general science class but was honestly such a joke that what I learned was of no value to me..7th grade was a biology course, a LOT more rigorous but still, I forget much of it.
And even in the physics we’re doing this year, while it is pretty challenging, we haven’t gotten to circuits yet which seems to be the utmost concern for the physics portion of the test.
I’m thinking about going through the “Crash Course” page on Youtube for chemistry, earth science/ecology, biology, using some high school level (should I use AP?) textbooks, using regents prep as that seems to be what’s helped a lot of people.
I know it’s been advised by many on this thread to make sure that you don’t study…but that’s coming from people who go to specialized schools with the finest science programs encompassing biology, chemistry, ecology, etc. I really need to refresh/study all this stuff that I may have not seen since 5th grade (lol)
For those of you who’ve taken the exam, what would you recommend that I stress? It seems to be biology/earth science/chemistry first? And within these subjects, what’s the most important thing I look over–I would love to go in-depth with these topics, but I unfortunately don’t have the time to go through 700-page lecture textbooks (lolx2)
And yeah, I’m stressing the science, not the math, because that seems to be more straightforward in terms of knowing what to use to prepare yourself–the challenge section is about AMC 10/12 level? I think I’m getting better at those as I’m on the math team (lolx3) The easy math section surprisingly is what’s scaring me…The math in my school isn’t too screwy, but I’m only taking Honors Geometry as a freshman (highest course available), Algebra II in the summer as a first-time thing (still not sure how that’ll work out) and Pre-Calc next year…
Meaning I’m really only at a verryyy basic Algebra I/Geometry level in math (the latter of which will not help me at all since the geometry would be more basic, maybe some transversals). We’ve learned the absolute fundamentals of trig in geometry (ratios, no laws, no charts, etc.) and that’s pretty much it! Anything you recommend I go over with my teacher/learn some simple concepts from alg. 2 and pre-calc?
Any help (literally anything, tyvm) is genuinely appreciated!
What was the preferred date you chose? That is the one you will get.(Or so I have been told by the SHP office) I just got selected for NYSML and they told me that I can’t change my preference date even though they are on the same day!
Just read through all 162 pages…literally do not know what to think…tho the general impression seems to be that it’s a little more lenient in recent years…we’ll see lol
@cbarkachi lot of science concerns, i see…not sure of how much help it is but ive from what ive gathered from the posts, and from what i know from my own AP science experiences, don’t buy an ap or high school textbook, i highly highly doubt it’ll help. not saying you shouldn’t review some stuff though, i myself am certainly not in a specialized school and will review math/bio/chem/physics/earth sci/astronomy (?) concepts
idk how i should feel about my chances lol…i’m a sophomore in NJ, and my high school does an intro to chem & physics class in freshman year (idk if that’s good or bad, not that in-depth i suppose, but some exposure might help?), and i’m currently taking ap bio. i’m most worried about math though…alg 1, geometry, alg 2 is what i know, is that sufficient?
if anyone is sharing, i’m taking the april date, in Mudd 833
This thread is very informative
For those of you who are concerned:
In my entrance exam I took as a freshman, I pretty much omitted/guessed most, if not all, of the science section. I believe that I did quite well on math section.
Therefore, I’m sure they consider it holistically.
feel free to msg me if you have any questions.
@BasedBioGod : I do have 2 questions: how indepth does science section of the test go (and which subject seems to be most tested on) and do you remember how hard the “difficult math section was” ? Thanks.
- I'm sure someone else can offer a better insight on the science section (lol i didn't really pay attention)
But the depth was like introductory chem/phys/bio and geology stuff. They asked some basic concepts but nothing particularly difficult.
- The difficult part I would say is around number 13-20 in AMC 10. If you're experienced with competition math, you would be fine.
@BasedBioGod By “introductory” science subjects, do you mean regents level?
does anyone remember what subjects the physics questions were mostly on?
Reading through the posts, its seems that circuits came up a lot, are there any other topics i should focus on (i haven’t taken physics in school yet)
@BasedBioGod or anyone else, can we bring a calculator and do we get negative marks if we put a wrong answer?
sorry, i do not know that part. I’m pretty sure that you can’t use a calculator on the difficult math section though, like every other math competition. Really don’t worry about the easy math section, it’s like SAT Math 1.
@vikagni no calculator from what i remember, and they do apparently deduct points if i recall what they said correctly, but they were hella ambiguous about it and were just like “yeah a portion is deducted good luck guys”
@teenagecrime were there a lot of physics questions?
Thanks @BasedBioGod @ teenagecrime