what is the minimum score one should get in biology subject test to consider it decent to send to colleges like George washington, rutgers honors, university of maryland college park, carnegie melon, ann arbor etc.
I’m not an expert but the general guideline is anything 700+ is fine. Hopefully my bump will alert someone with more specific information.
700 is perfectly fine, although for Top 25 schools you will probably need to score around 750+.
For UMich and CMU definitely try to get around 750 or higher. Barron’s will be your friend.
The Biology test is memorization of facts, especially for Molecular. You can probably get by taking the test without having taken AP Biology, although it would help.
Also use Khan Academy to learn biology ,(also good for math, chemistry and physics)
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology
@hamurtle .will it hurt if one sends a score of 710 to a school that prefers 750 ? At least shows effort .My son gets a score of 690-700 when he takes a practice test on college board or barrons. How indicative is that of a real score ?
Barron’s is way tougher than the actual test. The rule of thumb is that you will see a 20-30 point difference towards the positive on the real test.
As long as you are scoring above 700, you should be fine. The 750 isn’t an absolute threshold. And if schools don’t require subject score results, then you don’t have to send them unless the school in question requires the student’s entire testing history.
@coloradomama I love khan academy and tell my kids to use it . but as they are growing older, they seem to use it less. We have the college board send 4 free scores automatically . Probably should not report it till scores are back. This is all new to us as my son is a freshman and he is my first kid to go to high school and I grew up and went to college in a different country!
I see khan academy has high school biology practice questions in various topics. Looks pretty relevant. Anyone with experience with that ?
I used Barron’s to self-study for my AP Psychology exam and I highly, highly recommend it! Barron’s has been so good to me.
My son just took the kaplan practice test and got 610. is that a realistic score or are kaplan tests much harder. He is giving his biology subject test in a week. He never seems to get over 700 in a practice test on average. He also found the college board practice test much harder than prep books …