Overlap between AP and Sat II?

littleathiest
Sat, 19 May 2007 16:15:00 +0000

Well, I can tell you that I got a 4 on AP Biology and a 640 on the SAT IIs. I found the multiple choice sections of the two tests to be very different from one another… the SAT IIs (or at least the ones that I took) asked a lot of questions about predicting the results to experiments and how you’d set up experiments in general and had more comparative anatomy questions than the AP.

And to answer you’re question about the E/M thing… you take either E or M, but they’re part of the same test. Basically, everyone in the nation answers the first section of questions. Then, when you get to a certain number (it might be 61, but I don’t remember exactly), you have the option of taking E or M. If you opt to take E you skip the M section of the booklet and if you pick M you skip the E section. Both sections are in the same test but you have to pick which of the two you’d rather take along with the general questions which everyone answers.

I hope that’s clear (it’s a bit hard to explain nonverbally).