SAT Subject tests vs The ACT

mo24
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:58:31 +0000

I’m curious how much more difficult the SAT Subject Tests are compared to the ACT. It sounds as though the ACT may be harder. (More people seem to score perfect 800s on the SAT Subject tests than people with perfect 36s on the ACT) But then, this could be because the SAT subject tests are much more ‘self selected’.

I scored a 34 on the ACT Science, but never took a science class since 7th grade. (Although since I enjoy it, I’ve read a decent amount about various topics on the internet…)

I’m finding now that about %80 of the colleges I was hoping to apply for require both the ACT and the SAT Subject tests. How academic-oriented are the SAT Subject tests - for instance, physics? Is a great deal of it more based on logical reasoning than actual learned subject material, or is it pretty much entirely learned subject material from high school?