<p>I took a Kaplan SAT II bio practice test but it had 95 questions. The book was from 2005-ish (can’t exactly remember - perhaps 2004, perhaps 2006 … somewhere around then).</p>
<p>Just how many questions exactly does the SAT II Biology exam have?</p>
<p>Did the number of questions on the exam change from 95 to something else recently?</p>
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<p>Thanks … for not answering the other half of my question.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the kaplan book made a mistake. The SAT Bio, for a long time, has had 60 questions that everyone must do and then 61-80 would be for Bio E and 81-100 would be for those taking Bio M. Since you can’t take both E and M, the number of questions on the SAT Bio is 80.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what I thought too. The Kaplan tests were pretty wonky. The book had completely separate E and M tests. Lol. Did the author not know that he could just write a common core of 60 questions and just create 20 dedicated E questions and 20 dedicated M questions?</p>
<p>After working with some of Kaplan’s prep books for things ranging from SAT to SAT Subject Tests, I have started to feel as if Kaplan doesn’t really know what it’s doing. In addition, the practice tests they offer for subject tests and the SAT contain many mistakes. Sometimes, the problems are written in such a way that the problem is unsolvable like in their SAT math book. Many times, they don’t follow the format of the test as well. IceQube, I can totally believe that Kaplan would have done such a thing in that book. In their SAT critical reading sections for the practice tests, sometimes, they switch the order of the passages so that the long passage with about 10 questions comes before the short passages, which are last. So I would say that it was just dumb of them not to study the format of the test so they could actually help you instead of causing you confusion on test day.</p>
<p>I’ve clarified the enigma. I checked the Kaplan book again today and the author states that there are 95 questions because he wanted students to have more practice. </p>
<p>Funny thing is that the Peterson’s SAT II book also has 95 questions in its test - also for extra practice (as stated by the author). </p>
<p>…Lol. Why 95?</p>
<p>That’s so weird! They should have gone with 100. I don’t see why they picked 95 instead of 100 questions.</p>
<p>Most books have this. It is a DIAGNOSTIC test that should be the very first one you take to see where you stand. It has more questions and (if I am correct) a different score conversion chart included… they do this to more accurately evaluate your starting abilities and show you what topics you are getting wrong (there should be a chart that says "questions 1-15 are ____ topic and questions 16-30 are ____ [ecology or biochem are examples])… </p>
<p>Haha this is coming from someone who has taken plenty of biology subject tests</p>
<p>You would think that 100 questions instead of 95 would make more sense:</p>
<p>60 general questions
20 Ecology questions
20 Molecular questions </p>
<p>Whatever. It’s not like the Kaplan people know what they’re doing anyway, with completely separate E and M tests :p.</p>
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<p>Have you taken the real Biology Subject Test yet?</p>
<p>I wanted to ask you guys a question.
Is it enough to go over the bio chapters and just read each chapter a couple of times, or do I need to memorize all the information and have a strong knowledge of all the facts in it ?
I’m using Barron’s btw</p>
<p>Well… reading the bio chps. over and over again should let you memorize all the info, shouldn’t it?</p>