Do your HS classes always align with SATII topics?

Legacy2277
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:18:01 +0000

I’ve had a contrasting experience with chem. I enjoyed my chemistry teacher and we only covered stuff you could find as AP content. I never studied once for the chem test assuming AP background would be sufficient. I got an 800 without a problem. Similar thing happened for biology with one exception being the sat biology test also had some basic anatomy of a human and plant questions on there I didn’t learn from AP Bio but was able to reasonably guess and the curve gave me the score I wanted. Math 1 and 2 don’t correspond to any exact math course but most of the problems can be solved without having practiced them in class before so not too much of an issue.

I had a different experience with world history where I did not score as well as I’d have wanted from AP World but I’m not sure if that was because of what we should have gone over in class (since I know missed quite a bit of the AP material) or a difference between the AP material and the subject II material.

As for what to study for sat II chemistry I’d expect Barron’s book to be fine. Their AP chemistry one ignoring a few typos prepared me well. The important thing when you select a book is to make sure it has at least 2 practice tests and some problems with its chapters so you can review the areas you need by working the stuff in the corresponding chapter.