June 2010: Chemistry

Somestudent2
Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:56:24 +0000

To add onto what Silverturtle said, this report may provide some reassurance that your “70s” percentile is in a different context than it would be in the normal SAT: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/cbs-2009-national-TOTAL-GROUP.pdf (Page 14)

Of all those who took the Chemistry SAT II:

*Mean CR score of 615 (Roughly 83rd percentile)
*Mean Math score of 675 (Roughly 90th percentile)
*Mean Writing score of 620 (Roughly 85th percentile)

That is to say, the average – the 50th percentile SAT II Chemistry taker – got in the 83rd percentile of CR, 90th percentile of Math, and 85th percentile of Writing.

Needless to say, your competition is much different than that of the SAT Reasoning Test, and a percentile in the 70s, while far from spectacular, is not poor in the least.

Also, the group which takes the test is self-selecting, and obviously, most are going to be pretty confident in their chemistry abilities.