<p>Is one subject preferred over another? Someone once told me that schools consider Math Lvl II to be the most important, will it hurt me if I don’t take it if I already have good scores in three other subjects, and if my prospective major is not anything math-oriented?</p>
<p>For the Oct Math II i am predicting a 680-710. I am planning on taking it again. I want to use my four free score reports. should i send it to colleges like UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, or is it pointless/will hurt me? should i send it to lower-level schools like UCSD, etc.?</p>
<p>Most of the schools that I’m applying to require two SAT Subject Tests or recommend that applicants take subject tests. Does taking more than the required number of tests improve one’s admission chances, assuming that each score earned is 780+?</p>
<p>^I doubt that more tests would hurt you, unless you take so many that you come off as a cold, heartless testing machine.</p>
<p>this forum just saved me!! i signed up for 3 tests i.e. physics, chem n math II but im finding it very hard to finish them on time! so im planning to walk out from physics and since to the college, there won’t be any history of me registering for it, it won’t matter. please correct me if im wrong!
also, will it hurt if i don’t give the physics test when im applying to swarthmore or even stanford and may do engineering but gave A level and got an A in physics ?</p>
<p>Ok, so this thread is mainly filled with unanswered questions, but I may as well ask…
-Can you sign up for say two tests, stay for a third one and “peek” at the questions, answering them if they look easy to you and then paying the extra test fee later? And if they don’t appeal to you, just leave the third test’s answer bubbles blank? Or is this against the rules? Is the proctor categorizing them by how long you stayed at the test center? Does anyone have experience with doing this?</p>
<p>I’d appreciate it if someone could answer this question. Thanks. :)</p>
<p>What private colleges in California, specifically USC, LMU, Pepperdine, USD, USF, require SAT subject tests, if so how many tests do i need to take ?</p>
<p>if you want to take and send in SAT II scores, do you also have to include SAT I?</p>
<p>You don’t have to include SAT1 when sending your SAT2 scores.</p>
<p>Question: After the time has started for one testing (1hr for 1 subject test), can I switch tests after flipping through the book to see which one I like better, based on the questions?? Someone please verify</p>
<p>Another question (sorry): When I send scores for subject tests, do I have to send them by test DATE? Or can I send them by individual tests?</p>
<p>@RainbowSprinkles</p>
<p>To answer your second to last question, you CANNOT flip through the test booklet and look at different sections, and you can’t look at them before either. This would be interpreted as cheating, and your scores would automatically be invalidated. You are required to bubble in which subject test you are taking before you start your test as well, so you must decide with no information beforehand, other than prior knowledge of what subjects you are best at. What I did, and what I would suggest, is to take the subject test you are most proficient in first, when your mind is still fresh.</p>
<p>To answer your last question, when you go online to collegeboard.com and register for your score reports from your subject tests, you have several options. You may use the four free score reports up to about 12 days after your test date, and you can choose to send either ALL SAT tests from all dates, including SAT I and SAT II scores, completely free. Or you can pick and choose which test scores to send from previous test dates, that is, only the best scores if you want. However, you are required to send your test results that you do not know the scores of yet, and you are actually restricted from selecting otherwise.</p>
<p>^very informative and helpful. thanks!</p>
<p>USC does not "require’ any Subject test. 2 are Recommended. I know this is accurate for an Engineering major and some others.</p>
<p>My SATs were Ok - 2030 and my target school { univ of So. Cal] only 'reccomends ’ the Subject Tests. My Subject Test scores: Math2 - 710 [65th P’tile] and Literat - 720 [88th p’tile]. Would anyone out there suggest NOT sending these Subject Test Scores ?
Also- I need Merit Aid - and I think i Read that Subject Test scores may be helpful for that. </p>
<p>Thx</p>
<p>should I send my subject test scores to Stanford (they were lit 630, math II 640-I know, they’re terrible but I’m verifying scores at the moment). I know they “strongly recommend” it, but with what I have right now, should I send them? Or am I better off not sending subject test scores?</p>
<p>My SAT Reasoning composite was 2200</p>
<p>I wouldn’t send them if they are that low to Stanford, especially since they don’t require subject test scores.</p>
<p>Okay, that is what I thought. It’s just that the “strongly recommended” part scared me, but I think it makes sense not to send them if I got low 600s (VERIFYING SCORES RIGHT NOW though).</p>
<p>@stewart3d Send in those SAT II’s-- they’re still much better than others’, despite what CC tries to make you believe.
I know people who sent in lower SAT II’s who got into USC.</p>
<p>Are the subject tests based off AP courses or just a normal year of each class?
For example, it is really difficult in my school to take any AP Chem/Physics/Bio classes until senior year (only chem AP is open to juniors, and then you have to switch your classes around or skip a year of physics). So, I wont take an AP science class until my senior year, but I will have to take the SATII for it pretty early in the year, without much knowledge? Or could I score well off of a year of non-AP science class- as in take an SATII at the end of this year, only having a year of chem?</p>