<p>I recently bought a few AP Prep books for US and World History, thinking it would easily prepare me for the SAT Subject test and possibly for the AP as well (even though I haven't completed US History and the World History I took was not at an AP level). Are there things that the Subject Tests have on them that the AP leaves out, or is the AP a more comprehensive review that will only help me?</p>
<p>Personally, I think this will vary between test and test. I felt that the AP World History test was ridiculously easy, and the SAT test harder, but I’ve never seen a prep book for either of them. </p>
<p>But, honestly? You’ll probably be fine. I took the World History SAT a <em>eighteen months</em> after my World History AP test, with practically no prep, and got a 760.</p>
<p>I agree with NightShadeQueen with it depending on the test because I took Chemistry and got a 650, but the AP book wouldn’t really help because it is a lot of conceptual questions.</p>
<p>Thanks.
The thing is I haven’t taken the AP World History because it isn’t offered at my school, but I did take Eastern and Western World History in freshman and sophomore years respectively, and now I’m a junior so I think Ill probably remember most of it.</p>
<p>It varies, but I’m nearly positive that the SAT Subject Test in USH in so similar that you don’t need to use an additional SAT prep book to study, and whatever you’re using for AP prep should be sufficient. (I took an old released AP Multiple choice a week before the SAT Subject test and saw many of the same questions. Well maybe like 5, but that’s really a lot.)</p>
<p>Not certain that this is the exact case for WH, but it should be pretty similar. I wouldn’t buy additional books if I were you.</p>
<p>Thanks neekzg. I am going to stick with the AP books for both tests. saves some money and if anything will probably over-prepare me for the subject tests. And anyway colleges probably look at me favorably if they see that I did well on the AP tests and didn’t take the ap course because it shows that I actually studied on my own time… right?</p>
<p>do you think an ap prep book would be good in preparing for the SAT subject test in Biology?</p>
<p>AP Biology prep books are very suite for SAT Bio E or M.</p>
<p>it would vary per test. </p>
<p>for chem, the sat subject test is a lot more conceptual than the ap test. the ap test had a lot of math. you would definitely need to buy separate prep books if you plan on taking both the ap and subject test. </p>
<p>for history, i’d assume the questions would be similar, but don’t take my word on it.</p>