How to get 800 on Physics SAT 2

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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>For those of you who have done well on Physics SAT 2, how did you prepare?
I was just wondering how other people prepared differently from me.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>I read through PR and Kaplan. I also took AP Physics B and had already read through the PR, Barrons, and McGraw Hill AP books.</p>

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<p>Jeez. Thats alot of reading and studying for physics. Trouble is, most people have multiple APs and SAT 2 at the end of Junior year. </p>

<p>Sucks to be a junior :)</p>

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<p>^ “a lot”.</p>

<p>PLEASE.</p>

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<p>I could give you advice but it would be “how to get a 600 on Physics”</p>

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<p>…
Can people start listing some things such as what books they used and how their practice test scores matched their real scores?</p>

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<p>I just used the Kaplan book and read over it once taking notes. Then i took a practice test and got 760 so I read over some of the chapters again, took two more practice tests, got 800 on both. </p>

<p>Took 3 days for me, but I already knew everything that was on the test already… just needed to brush up on some old stuff.</p>

<p>I can’t really comment on any of the other books (PR, Barrons, etc…) b/c I haven’t had a look at them.</p>

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<p>Thats ridiculous how a raw score of 59/75 is a 800.</p>

<p>People are like ■■■■■■■■ lol If the curve is that good.</p>

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<p>Since I am in the IB, I was already well prepared. As for me, it was year round hard work that paid off.
Book I can recommend…well all the Barrons books, and well I don’t know about you, but iTunes U helped me a lot.</p>

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<p>I’ve never studied Physics in my life before I started studying for this. I can safely say that PR helped me learn a lot of the material. Most of the chapters are really explained well. I haven’t truly evaluated myself though, since I haven’t done a practice test yet. Today I’ll be doing the last topic (Optics) and then start practice tests and revision from tomorrow. I would consider it a decent achievement if I manage a score above 720 on the real thing.</p>

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<p>I got an 800 on Physics last year. Here’s what I did:
One of the Honors/AP Physics teachers had an SAT II prep thing before school one day a week to teach us the stuff that might be on the SAT II that wasn’t in our curriculum or we wouldn’t learn yet. I also took 2 practice tests from the PR book and got 750’s on both of them. I would usually leave about 8 blank and get a handful wrong.
On the actual test day it was a lot easier than the PR books, I left none blank and only guessed on 2.</p>

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<p>^^ interesting idea about the in school SAT 2 prep thing in the morning. </p>

<p>So the PR is harder than the real thing?</p>

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<p>you need a 59 raw for an 800</p>

<p>but the test is just hard</p>

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