<p>So far, this is what I have planned for my Junior year:</p>
<p>Early Bird Gym (Gym is mandated in IL. This’ll give me the opportunity to take 1 more elective)
AP English 11
AP Psychology
AP Microeconomics
AP Gov.
Honors/AP Physics (Still haven’t decided. I think it’d be fun, but more fitting for Senior year)
Pre Calculus Honors
French III Honors/Pre AP</p>
<p>whoa! hahaha your thread is so much more active than the 2013 one! you have almost 20 more pages than we do and we’ve had a year more! good luck sophomores! Also, word to the wise, study for the SAT over the summer and take the october one. then you’ll be ready for the PSAT, which is about 2 weeks after! just glance over vocab once the night before :)</p>
<p>@bluenote Any good books/sights/anything to help study… I want to score high as I can (wanting to apply to MIT) Any tips?</p>
<p>@jayce I highly suggest buying The Blue Book, which is basically a book with 10 tests that the writers of the SAT make! it sells for about $20, so it’s really cheap and great practice! As far as vocab goes, just google and you’ll find plenty of lists. I used this one the night before the SAT <a href=“http://www.majortests.com/sat/wordlist.php[/url]”>http://www.majortests.com/sat/wordlist.php</a></p>
<p>Hmm… Will check that out, thanks!</p>
<p>Both of the questions I missed on CR this year were sentence completion because I didn’t know the words lol. I guess I know what I need to study!</p>
<p>I’d also recommend you guys buy the Blue Book off of Amazon! I paid 12 bucks for my copy.</p>
<p>Is anyone taking the SAT in March? I’m taking it just for practice.</p>
<p>I would say taking the SAT for practice is one of the best decisions I ever made. It gauged my skills and showed what I needed to work on. Go for it!</p>
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<p>I don’t know if I should because SAT sends all scores under your name when you apply to college and I haven’t really prepped. But again, I guess they would see thy I’m taking it as a sophomore.</p>
<p>You should go ahead and plunge head first into the deep end of the pool. I did that and it helped me tremendously. I feel that if you take it with minimal prep, it will show your current skills and abilities and then you could enhance them over the next year.</p>
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<p>You could also just apply to score choice schools if that’s your worry, helloel. I mean, that’d be extremely unnecessary if you end up with a relatively commendable score as a Senior, but if you really think that your Frosh/Soph scores will affect college admissions <em>that</em> much…</p>
<p>I’m going to have to disagree with evanb. You can just take a simulated practice test from the Blue Book–same conditions, same time (9AM on Saturday)–and have the same gauge of your skills. I took the real test January of freshman year and got a 2060. Evan is completely right in saying that it was tremendously helpful. However, now I have a subpar score that I have to send to colleges that do not accept score choice (for example, Yale). Do yourselves a favor and just take a practice test released by the College Board. It’s the same thing but without the negative consequences (and you don’t have to pay $50 for it).</p>
<p>On a related note, is anyone taking subject tests this year? I’ll be taking Math II in May and probably Biology in the fall.</p>
<p>I’m probably taking US History and Lit in the fall.</p>
<p>I want to take Math 2, Chem, and Bio before I graduate from high school.</p>
<p>Also, to revert back to the former topic for just a post. Studious, I agree with your method, but I feel that if you are to experience a real SAT test on an actual test day, it will prepare you mentally for what to expect the next times that you take it. Say if your test center has no clock and the place where you take this practice test has a clock. You may be expecting a clock in the class (but CB says to bring a watch anyway) since you took a practice exam in a place with a clock. I personally feel that experiencing this first hand and actually feeling the pressure and other factors (noisy clock, coughing, etc) makes you more mentally prepared for the next testing times.</p>
<p>Plus, colleges love to see scores that rise over time to show that you have enhanced your repitiore (sp?) of skills and abilities.</p>
<p>Carry on…</p>
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<p>Okay, we’ll agree to disagree. I think simulating a practice test is sufficient. Paying $50 and wasting one of the three recommended attempts for the sake of experience is foolish, in my opinion. Furthermore, it’s pretty much accepted that a good score in one sitting is preferable to a good score in multiple sittings (concering college admissions).</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck guys on your SAT II’s! Anaychi, what’s your plan for Literature? I heard it’s the most difficult subject test.</p>
<p>My literary perception is relatively up to par at the moment. I’m probably just going to read a lot more abstract works (Seneca, anyone?), and brush up on poetry (mechanics, works and terms). The only “startling” thing I’ve heard to come from Lit is the abstract and diverse poetry passages.</p>
<p>^ Isn’t the curve relatively harsh, too? Like -2 is a 790? And did you get an 80/800 on CR?</p>
<p>I thought I would bump this thread since it has been inactive for almost a day. So I will ask a few questions;
<ol>
<li>I will tell you in March, when most of the decisions roll in.</li>
<li>AP Chem, AP Lit, IB Math HL, IB Phy HL, IB Econ HL.</li>
<li>School doesn’t rank. But easily [1,5]/135.</li>
</ol>
<p>Class of 2012, signing off.</p>