<p>I used the Barrons Princeton AND Kaplan and studied about three months before the test. It was my first and my freshman year but I double checked my answers and walked out confidently. Unfortunately, I ended up with a 690. What do you think went wrong? I am taking it again in about a month so I want to get a higher score.</p>
<p>Also, when I kept taking practice tests, I was getting high scores (around 770+) and then I kept doing them until I got 800s. But on the test I got 690.</p>
<p>Did you take AP Bio? Its designed for someone who has taken a college level course. Did you retake the same practice tests? If you did, then you weren’t getting better, you were memorizing the questions. I would not retake- generally is not a good idea to retake a subject test. Take a different subject test instead later, such as Math 2 after you have taken precalc.</p>
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No, it’s not, although it can certainly help. From the [CB</a> website:](<a href=“The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board”>The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board)
I agree that at this point you are just memorizing the questions.</p>
<p>Hmm, that’s odd. That’s what we were told at my high school. We took subject tests after we took the AP version, not the honors (exception math 2). I took chem after honors, and scored in the upper 600s. Most of the topics I didn’t know were AP chem topics.</p>
<p>It’s not for AP level coursework, I promise you. I took AP bio and found it much more detailed and conceptual than SAT II. Most likely, something happened with your bubbling OP. Is it possible that you skipped a bubble toward the end or something?</p>
<p>From what I’ve gleaned from SAT II subject tests is that they all require in depth knowledge of a subject typically given by an AP class. While an AP class may over prepare you for a subject test, I think an honors/regular version of the class does not prepare you well enough to score high. Or maybe my school’s honor classes just suck.</p>
<p>Anyway I agree with the above, you probably memorized the answers/how to tackle those specific questions without even realizing it. You should probably try taking a test online from somewhere like sparknotes, or using the SAT’s blue book for subject tests(which contain real subject tests).</p>
<p>Interesting. I attend a high school close to your university, and I was told that I could take the bio subject test at the end of the year of my honors bio class (with the help of a bio SAT II study book).</p>
<p>I can’t say that my honors physics class prepared me for the physics subject test very well. There were a lot of concepts on the subject test that we did not even begin to cover in class. I’m taking IB Physics SL this year and I’ve noticed that there are a good amount of topics covered in this class (which is a college-level class) that were tested on the physics subject test. Maybe my school just sucks, but I doubt it… </p>
<p>I took advice from a few of you and achieved a higher score when I took it again in October. Thank you.</p>