Self Prepping for US history and Bio Subject Test

Demisoda
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:00:18 +0000

Hi I’m in a junior going into senior next school year.
I am planning to take SAT ii US history and Bio in the upcoming October
Can you suggest 2-3 books for each subject so I can self study until October and get around 750-800?? (I’ll take both tests then)
I have some background knowledge of US history and Bio, but I don’t think it is that thorough.
Especially, US history I only have a brief understanding.
For Bio, I’m thinking of taking M instead of E but it is just tentative since I don’t even know (yet) my strengths and weaknesses.
By the way, I will be taking international test, not US test.

I have heard that
US history: Essential Content ( is that same with Direct Hits us history in a flash?), AMSCO, and sparknotes are good.
But I feel like that will be overwhelming since it’s like two textbooks? (or is that necessary?)
BC/ I originally thought one book that will be like reference textbook that I will study mostly from and few other for extra references plus practices would be nice.

For Biology, I already purchased Barron’s, but I haven’t started going through it though.
So I would want 1-2 more so that I get enough understanding and practice.

I really would appreciate your responses!