<p>Chem, I got an 800 in May and it was really easy</p>
<p>Bio is easier…Chem has the TTCE questions that screw most people up.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken the Chem test, but I read you can’t use a calculator on it? I always use a calculator in my Chem Honors class. Do you really not need a calculator for the SAT II?</p>
<p>Also, neither AP Bio nor AP Chem are offered at my school until senior year. I’ve taken both Honors Bio and Honors Chem and gotten A’s in both of them Do you think if I studied over summer I could take one of these tests in September? Or would it not be advisable?</p>
<p>I just realized they don’t offer SAT’s until October. So, should I take one in October?</p>
<p>Please don’t judge which test is harder just by the percentiles. Statistically, people seem to do better on the chem test, but it may be because smarter people take the test and there’re less people scoring low on chem than on bio… for instance, math II is much harder than math I but statistics show that people do better on math II:) Overall, I think the fastest way for you to find out which test is better for you is to get practice tests from collegeboard and see which one you do better on.</p>
<p>@rk33,</p>
<p>LOL, my school only offer ap science classes to seniors as well! I took sat chem after a honors course and some self-studying and got 770, after finding out that there were a lot of details and topics on sat that we’ve never covered in class. So I guess if you are willing to put in time to study, it’s not a problem. By the way, I know one of my friends got 800 in bio in freshmen year after bio honors, so it’s definitely feasible.</p>
<p>Yeah, comparing percentiles isn’t a good idea to judge the difficulty of the test (math 1 vs math 2 is a good example, as calico stated).</p>
<p>Personally, I do think that the chem sat is easier. If you get your concepts down, you just have to apply them. The concepts are pretty easy to understand, too.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, bio is alot of memorization. Up to you, though.</p>
<p>So, I’m looking at the Chem practice test in the SAT II book made by collegeboard. I’m not sure I get the 3 part questions. Are they asking: if statement 1 is true; if statement 2 is true; if statement 2 is true because of statement 2?</p>
<p>Do those questions count as the whole thing wrong if you miss part?</p>
<p>Rk33, those questions ask if Statement I is true, if Statement II is true and if Statement II is a correct explanation of Statement I. For example:</p>
<p>Statement I: Hitting your head against a brick wall hurts.
Statement II: The capital of China is Beijing.</p>
<p>You would bubble in True for Statement I and II but not ‘Correct Explanation’ because while both statements are true, statement II does not explain statement I.</p>
<p>The questions have to be completely correct in order for you to earn the point.</p>
<p>lol “hitting you head against a brick wall hurts”</p>
<p>Those question types are very difficult though.</p>
<p>ya, im taking bio this year and what ive heard is that the major thing that makes bio different from the other sciences is that it is basically just memorizing and very little understanding. I mean maybe you might have to figure out how diffusion works and processes like respiration and photosynthesis, but for the most part its memorization. In NY you are required to take chemistry, earth science and biology. At the end of the year everyone n the state takes a regents exam which is the same for everyone. Ive taken earth science and the state gives you a 16 page reference table to look stuff up and im taking chem next year, but already know that you get a reference table for chemistry as well. Im currently taking bio and wll take the sat II in junr but do know that a reference table does not exist in biology. The closest thing you get is a sheet that tells you which m-rna codons code for the which amino acids</p>
<p>and most likely there will always be that one question you will get wrong in bio because you dont know exactly what class of animals has a mesoglea or something</p>
<p>^lol</p>
<p>Bio has a better curve I think?</p>
<p>Chem’s TTCE is fine if you get used to it.</p>
<p>CHEM! i got a 800 on chem after chem honors, but i got a 780 on bio after AP BIOLOGY. so def Chem… and ask those smart people in your school. they’ll always tell you that they got a 780 on bio and an 800 on chem</p>
<p>OKay, so I am taking Chem Honors in school right now, and I get very good grades. I think I am good at it. I like it. Then, I took a practice test, and I have no idea what is going on. I feel like I have taken a whole year of chemistry for no reason. I got 35/85 right and 20 wrong=550. I need to be answering at least 30 more right. And for a lot of the questions, I feel like I do know what to do, but CB takes easy things and twists them into something I do not recognize. Can someone give me advice on how to raise my score by June 6th?</p>
<p>You should read a review book like Barron’s.</p>
<p>Are the TFCE questions worth the same as multiple choice questions or…?</p>
<p>^Yeah, they are worth the same.</p>