<p>For those of you who have taken the Oct. 4 sat 2 for biology e/m, how did you feel about it was it pretty straight-forward, tricky, hard, easy? Also what prep book did you use to study and was it useful (cover all/most of the stuff on test)? How long did you study for? </p>
<p>It'd be great if you guys could help me because I'm planning on taking the Biology sat 2 in a month and I've done some studying during the summer (but already forgot some stuff). I also wanted to know if my PR book is enough, hence I'm only aiming for around a 700 (obviously more if I can).</p>
<p>oct sat bio was insanely difficult (at least for me). none of the books i used (pr, barrons, kaplan) had information that was on the test.. i suggest getting an ap bio book? i heard a lot of cliff's ap bio was on the test.</p>
<p>I thought that the BIO SAT 2 was incredibly simple, although a few questions were a tad... odd (ie unexpected), the vast majority of them were fairly straightforward and easy. There were maybe four total that I could only narrow down the answer to 2 or 3 choices, and one that I completely spaced out on.</p>
<p>That post registered a 7 on the sarcasm-o-meter. Lets be honest with ourselves now... Skimming the sparknotes review thing online will not cut it. :)</p>
<p>Moodrets: really? that seems like too much studying though, I mean I took the sat 2s for ush, math2 and chem in june (never taken those classes in school before) and studied the day OF the test and got 800s in all of them. Whoever needs to study for more than 15min on any subject test is retard imo.</p>
<p>Dude...seriously lol I need some real advise!!</p>
<p>For Bio e/m I read barrons as well as kaplans. I find that each have their own strengths and weaknesses - and combined they give sufficient information to probably get a good 750+ assuming you absorb every bit of it.</p>
<p>Nevertheless you're probably going to need a much greater breadth and depth to squeeze the last few questions - you might want to try buying those GCE A level Biology textbooks that are crammed full of information. Pick out the important bits from there, but don't go into the exact details because the details (like the exact precise process of the Kreb's cycle) will NOT appear in SAT.</p>
<p>I took the october bio, and I thought it was pretty hard.
I studied off just princeton review, and it helped me a lot, but for some parts of the test
it wasnt covered at all.
I ended up cancelling my october one because....yeah. haha
but I'm retaking on the nov. and I plan on re-going over princeton review (cause it did help me since its been 2 years since i took bio) but i am also going to go over barrons, and read over sparknotes or smoething gl!</p>
<p>but to answer the OP's question I think Barrons is good to guarantee a good score like 750+. I personally think that for review purposes solely PR is good to get a you 650+ and get Kaplan if you are taking Biology-E</p>
<p>would like reading PR and absorbing 70% of the info and skimming sparknotes be adequate enough for me to get 700? Also do you guys know the curve for both e and m and which is easier (less to memorize)? how many questions wrong could I get for an 800/750/700/650?</p>
<p>I'd say that reading PR is enough, but 70% seems a tad small an amount to absorb. You want to be familiar with most every vocabulary term in these things if you want to do well. Simply reading it should be enough to score at least an 800, though.</p>
<p>I hear that M has the better curve, but I dunno really.</p>
<p>< I'm studying right now but got no time for "extensive" study. I only have 3 weeks before the test and I have a bunch of homework. Though I already skim through the Princeton Review book and marked it up during the summer so that might help. But could anyone confirm the sparknotes scale? Because every book has a different one.</p>
<p>anhtimmy: lol yeah, difference is: you OWN the sats, I GET owned by them 0,0...man they need to come up with book pills where you take one and everything in the book gets imprinted in your brain :(</p>
<p>Lol, skimming was just review pretty much, why would you take the test without a class anyway? I read campbells (or however its spelled) a while back and am personally quite heavily into the sciences, so skimming just helped me refresh my memory and remember the useless crap that I'll never need again.</p>
<p>Lol, and I like how I said at least an 800 in my above post, as if there are scores above that... ;D</p>