IB and SAT subject tests?

ThinkDifferent
Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:17:32 +0000

Most definitely. The IB is probably the most rigorous standardized high school academic program in the English-speaking world. SAT Subject Tests are a joke next to it, especially in the sciences and math. Literature is a tougher issue - I’ve no idea what the SAT Literature tests expect you to have read, but I think it’s probably different from what you read in IB Language A1 classes.

Another caveat: I took Physics HL and because of the way the teacher did it, I hadn’t learned anything about electricity and magnetism by the time I had to take the SAT II Physics, so I had to self-study that part. It wasn’t hard, though - the SAT II tests don’t go into great depth on any subject.