DD will be taking SAT Subject tests in Chemistry and US History. She took the practice tests today but didn’t score well.
@What???!! So the students can cancel the test afterwards if they don’t feel good about the test? Congratulations to the 800! Good thing your S listened to you!
@What!!! – welcome – thanks for joining in. My son is taking Math 2 on Saturday – a bit stressed - has done some prep - and is good at calculator use with various formulas - but there are a few areas he is still fuzzy on. Anyway fingers are crossed. Thanks for sharing!!
@4beardolls – students have until Wednesday at midnight to cancel the test. They will never learn those scores, and that test date will never appear on their history. It is as if they never took the test. I had encouraged my son to take the May USH test that way—as a practice, since real practice tests are so hard to come by, and then just sit for USH when taking physics in June. He spent some time chatting with classmates after the test and felt good enough to keep his score. We will know on June 15th how that worked for him.
On a related topic, if a student took two tests on one day but is only happy with the score of one, he can suppress the lesser score when sending the score report to colleges as long as the college is not one that requires submission of all testing history. This differs from SAT I where the scores from all three sub-sections must be sent.
Welcome @what!!! Congrats on your sons’ math sat II score. I want my D to take the math II but she has signed up for the regular SAT so she will have to wait till the fall. I hate having all summer waiting…
My son has taken one SATII test per testing date just so he would not have problems with cancelling or submitting scores. Also less stress in prep.
But as I pointed out before it all seems to be in the hands of Murphy. When my son found out he scored an 800 on the MathII he just cracked up laughing he was so stunned. He attributes his 800 to the huge snow storm that delayed testing for some of the most competitive states on the east coast thus softening the curve in his mind.
Welcome and Congratulations on a great score @“What???!!”
The curve is determined beforehand, so it is probably he only got about 5 wrong and got others right.
They do recycle the tests and the curve stays the same.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek The curve is more generous for Math 2 so missing one question on Math 1 is probably 790-780 vs Math 2 800, but the Math 1 percentile looks better. I think 750 in Math 2 is deemed quite good in spite of percentile.
I took GRE and GRE Subject tests in physics and in math in stone age.
GRE Subject tests were scored out of 990, and GRE 2400.
Count us in for a Math 2 test-taker on Saturday. D finished finals today. She and a friend will be studying on Thursday together. So, we’ll see how it goes. She was supposed to take the Physics subject test the same day, but are switching that to October. Plus, I guess she should have taken Math 2 last year. Oops.
Welcome @What!!! Your screen name is a hard one to quote properly in messages…
D is taking Math II, Physics, and Spanish. I wish she would wait on Physics since she has had only 1 year of a 2 year physics sequence. She still managed to score mid 700’s on the practice test, but for physics that’s only 70th percentile, low for a STEM kid. I guess she can retake next year. . .
The CB website has practice tests too. Has anyone checked to see if they are different from the blue book?
No required SAT2 tests for any of the schools on my daughter’s shortlist, thankfully! Instead, my Saturday will be taken up by running the 11-year-old to a babysitting certification class and frantically doing laundry in advance of some travel—and the 17-year-old will, I expect, catch up on sleep.
@CT1417, I thought I saw a score report at some point for that subject test, but I might have been wrong about which test the report was for. For the website, all I can tell is he scored 800 and was in the 81st percentile. I cannot find the paper report at this time. >:P Ultimately I guess it doesn’t matter what the percentile is if he scored as high as they allow. He will be taking the general SAT Saturday. He is one of the few kids on this thread that likes the SAT better than the ACT.
@mtrosemom – my son also prefers the SAT but I had him take the old format, fearing the unknown of the new. He found the new PSAT easier than the old SAT and then wondered why he wasted time taking the old SAT. (So that he would have time to take one subject test at a time in May & June, responds his helpful mother.)
I registered him for the Feb ACT just to secure the seat, as that date sells out months in advance since the test is not offered anywhere in NY state so all the NYers drive up to CT to take it. He refused to take the ACT and I see no reason, so there goes that money!
I was just curious about the # incorrect on subject tests as I have been wondering how everyone seems to know how many they got wrong. I know the students talk among themselves, but no one ever sees the exam after the fact.
Best of luck to all your kids studying for and taking SAT and SAT IIs!
S is going to Las Vegas early Friday morning and getting back late Saturday. There’s a math competition at UNLV (not at a casino or anything). He’s been to this one twice before, and enjoys it. He’s not shooting for an award, just having fun with other kids with similar interests.
Friday is the day before finals week, so he’ll have to get projects done a day early. I hope that goes well. I’m having an endoscopy tomorrow, so I will probably be out of it for awhile after.
Yipe, it’s supposed to be 110 in Vegas on Saturday! (But it’s a dry heat…)
I am amazed at how many are taking subject test! Yikes. Glad I don’t have to deal with that yet. S19 will likely need to but we aren’t there yet thankfully.
I do need to decide on the rescheduled ACT if we even bother with the essay. Right now, none of his schools require it. If they superscore we could submit his 26 but I am not sure it is neede
@thermom yes, they are resilient! He’s been repurposed already in both bands, he will be doing this sound board and recording which he enjoys and can at least be part of the 2 concerts that way. NO idea what the kid will do in those classes for the rest of the year though. Precalc is going to get him a scribe for the final, that should be interesting. He has been writing with his left hand, says he is up to third grade level so far. All I know is his signature at the ortho today was 2nd grade at best. LOL! They did free up his fingers a little today so hopefully by next week he will be able to write a bit better. If lucky, it will be 2 weeks in a long splint and another 2 in a short cast.
@RightCoaster I think you are on target with your timeline, we hope to have everything ready to hit send once we get Sept ACT scores. We had hoped to be done by July but the fractured wrist said otherwise. Sigh. UGH on 70k. those numbers make me quail no matter what the school is. Heck, 40-50 does too. Even if the government things we can afford both, or darn close to.
My summer plan is to narrow down the list, get essays done for at least 3 of the schools, probably more depending on how the list shakes out. Some of the schools are essay intensive so we need to decide sooner rather than later what is in the mix if at all possible. The big list has a total of 16 essays so…yeah, that will not happen. LOL!
@dfbdfb and @brindlegreyhound I am not sure how often that particular bus runs or if it is a student special but regular old greyhound isn’t far away either, right by the train station. S17 will be taking the train back this summer from his class, we have a conflict with pickup so plan to have him take a taxi to the train. He knows where the station is so should be pretty easy! He’s quite excited about it, would prefer my folks not pick him up so he can take the train on his own. I’ll let them get him from the train station. Our kids have mostly had bikes in college, older one had a car but paid all the costs out of his own $$.
@mtrosemom we only had ONE AP class at my HS. I took it…and bombed the test. LOL! Such a different world. I did just fine as well.
@What???!!! Welcome!
@Mom2aphysicsgeek, my 2016 grad daughter was homeschooled and a prospective STEM major. FWIW, she did fine, great even, as far as admissions with a 750 on Math 2 (granted, she took that one in 10th grade.) She had 4 subject tests total: chemistry, physics, Wld History, and the Math 2. She had two Ivy admissions and won the Stamps scholarship at Ga Tech. A 750 on a subject test is just fine, even for STEM. 
@eanesmom Yay for a lower arm cast! Taking a math final with a scribe? (Not sure how my kids would handle that.)
Welcome @what???!!
Good to know @GoodGrief16! Awesome results for your dd! Dd will be searching down the totem pole bc we can’t afford our familial contribution, but she does want to apply for a few competitive scholarships.
Re subject tests - signed up for math 2 & USHistory – likely will not take he history one though. Taking Physics in October bc AP Physics 1 course excludes over 50% of material on the SAT Physics test. Need summer to learn that stuff. Then no more tests unless he gets NMSF and needs to take the SAT - seeming less likely with a 218 in NY but we’ll finally know in September. Turning attention to college visits & apps!! Lots to do over the summer with this and his science project etc.
@What???!!! Welcome - thanks for joining in and sharing your info and perspective!
@Mom2aphysicsgeek hopefully a lower arm cast. We won’t know for 2 weeks and just depends on how the healing goes. He is not at all sure about the scribe but I am not sure what else they can do.
The final is next week so I suppose in theory is it goes horribly wrong and he gets a lower arm cast the following week and can write a bit better, his teacher may allow for a retake,
It’s a College in the classroom class though so he may not have that flexibility. Luckily S17 has a fabulous relationship with his math teacher (A likely LOR)
@CT1417 My son did the same thing. Old SAT, found new PSAT format easier and 1 achievement test at a time…