<p>What are the best books for the SAT11 biology exam
if you are looking for a top mark
good and bad points of books would be helpful
thanks</p>
<p>i memorized pretty much all of Kaplan 2005 bio and got a 780 on this test
some stuff that wasnt covered in the book:
plasmodesmata and gap junctions</p>
<p>otherwise i’d say kaplan bio’s good
i heard PR is easier to read though
if you have enough time, just go through kaplan and skim PR and should be great!</p>
<p>thanks for your reply
780 sounds great to me
best wishes and good luck on your future tests</p>
<p>gluck to you too!!! ^___^
and remember, try to reserve at least 2 weeks to prepare</p>
<p>Yep, remember to leave time to prepare, I learned that the hard way -_- In fact, take more than two weeks if you can, you’ll be feeling much better.</p>
<p>The Jan 28th test was pretty much all Kaplan’s, and that’s what helped me. I feel that PR gave a slightly better outline of the nervous system and excretory system (although that may just have been me being tired after 200+ pages of Kaplan’s).</p>
<p>From the practice tests I took, none of the review books give enough background on ecology to do extremely well on the Bio-E. Kaplan’s had a small section on populations and the like that helped a little bit, and did have Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, which was good. PR had a much better Bio-M-like section, which covered retroviruses, etc. that Kaplan’s did not cover. I do not know about Barron’s. After about 100 pages, I was dead from all the rote memorization.</p>
<p>Some stuff just wasn’t covered, like minnanotabo said. For instance, the first five questions on the Jan 28th test had to do with animals. You were fine with Kaplan’s and prior experience for most of it (butterflies have antennas :)), but the scorpion and the crayfish were not covered at all on any review book I read (cephalothorax ***???).</p>
<p>And like minnanotabo said, the Jan Bio-M needed you do distinguish (if you narrowed the rest down) between plasmodesmata and gap junctions. That definitely wasn’t covered in any review book.</p>
<p>But remember, it’s only one question. Part of the test is luck, unless you’re a hardcore biology person or memorized Campbell’s.</p>