Do your HS classes always align with SATII topics?

ivysource
Fri, 27 May 2016 23:35:29 +0000

I can’t tell you how many students I’ve seen get 4 or 5s on their APs, but average scores on their Subject Tests. APs and Subject Tests should be studied for separately, since they are vastly different and test different areas of knowledge, albeit with heavy AP overlap.

Another issue at play here is that the SAT Subject Tests test more than the student’s knowledge–they are also SATs, which means there are questions with tricky wording. These types of “tricky wording” questions require the student to separate that which is true from that which is correct.

For example, on a U.S. History Subject Test, you might see a question such as "the following chart illustrates which of the following about pre-Civil war America? All of the answers might be true of pre-Civil War America, but only one of the answers is supported by the information in the chart.