<p>Got a 780 on this. It’s good. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, I’m very furious at my math score.</p>
<p>720 with barron’s, read it twice. dunno if i should be happy :p</p>
<p>I got a 780! It was my first SAT subject test, so I think that’s pretty good. I only read some parts of the Barron’s review book the day before.</p>
<p>I got a 760 on the practice in the COLLEGE BOARD book, thought I would be set, got a 680 on the actual thing >.< APWH kind of didn’t prepare me at all though, so what did I expect? US History, I will be back with a vengeance…</p>
<p>I self studied for the SAT WH in the 3 weeks preceding the test, I ended up with a 780- so I’m happy!
For my prep: In sophomore year I took AP Euro, and this year I took IB 20th Century World History- both of which gave me a l of otbackground knowledge. Then I used the PR book for timelines (NOT for anything else, it sucks overall).
The AP World History Barrons is amazing, dense, but great for self study 
(I bet the SAT version is good too, I just borrowed this one).</p>
<p>What did other self study people do?</p>
<p>I got a 780 on the June 2nd world history SAT is that considered good?</p>
<p>@qpqeqoor Yep. By the way, that’s what I got.</p>
<p>I got a 720- as someone said before, idk whether or not to be disappointed. I had a nightmare that I got a 600 on it x______x</p>
<p>I got an 800, just looked through the princeton review book the night before
I did a lot of prep for the AP test though; I read the APWH Barron’s book twice in a week</p>
<p>800 
:)</p>
<p>Omitted 3.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what percentile a 780 on 800 will fall into?
Thanks!</p>
<p>770, omitted two and definitely got at least three wrong. Not too bad… I was expecting a bit lower, actually.</p>
<p>Is a 730 considered to be a good score?</p>
<p>I got a 710 & I was pretty content considering most Ivy Leagues recommend 3 Subject tests so they can calculate it out of 2400. So if i keep up the scores I could potentially get a 2100/2400 which i consider a pretty decent score</p>
<p>I took the May SAT IIs in US History and got a 760 and took it again in June and got a 800. I took AP US History this year and had a wonderful teacher. I did take the AP test (and I think I got a 5) and I did do some preparation for the National History Bowl competition, but only very minimally. The only three books I recommend using are the following:</p>
<p>1) United States History (AP Edition) by AMSCO.
This book is absolutely amazing and covers just about 95% of what you need for the SAT IIs in US History. Though it’s an AP book, the material is pretty much the same; both requires extensive knowledge of US history… One of the best parts of this book is that it has multiple choice questions after each section (about 30 section in the whole book). The book itself can be a bit dense to read, as it reads like a narrative in some areas, but this book will get you at least a 750+ if you read it thoroughly and carefully (I annotated mine). I started annotating mine about a month and a half before the May SAT IIs and did a chapter a day (30 chapters in total) and left the last week and few days to refresh and look through the parts that I was least familiar with in the book.
This book can be a bit obscure to find- don’t look on Amazon or Barnes and Nobles… it will say that it costs $45 or so… you want to go to the AMSCO Publisher website and look there… it costs around $18 (plus the cost of shipping). It is also available as an E-book, but I highly recommend buying a print copy and annotating it. It is long, but VERY worthwhile to annotate for that high score.</p>
<p>2) Barron’s SAT II US History
I was looking for that 800 on this test, so I bought the Barron’s book. I read/annotated ONLY the parts that I wasn’t strong on in addition to the AMSCO book. For example, the modern era I was not very good at so I read the chapters on the modern era. Barron’s gives a lot of nuanced information that may be necessary for that 800. Just reading AMSCO will get you a 750+, but for that perfect score, I recommend using Barron’s as a SUPPLEMENT. I use the word SUPPLEMENT because AMSCO gives a better overall coverage and makes more organization sense to me, but Barron’s gives details that sometimes AMSCO lightly touches on. Each Barron’s chapter gives you the top twenty things you need to know for each sub-era, which is for the most part very good because it gives minimal unnecessary information and focuses more on the important topics, but it can sometimes unintentionally place less emphasis on some of the details that AMSCO emphasizes (trust AMSCO more… trust me). I gave myself about two weeks annotating and reading through the Barron’s sections (only eras that I wasn’t as strong in), but if you were to read/annotate the whole Barron’s book, you would need about a month. One of the best features of the Barron’s books is that it has a list of the most important court cases at the end… which can be very useful in your arsenal. You definitely want to know those.
This book can be found at most bookstores for around $17.</p>
<p>3) CollegeBoard’s Official SAT Subject Tests in US and World History Study Guide
Don’t be fooled by its title: this book should only be used as a practice test book, NOT as a review book (there’s essentially no review material here). Use this book to get a feel of a real SAT II US history test in terms of difficulty. I thought the May SAT IIs was slightly easier than the tests in this book and the June SAT IIs to be slightly harder than the ones in this book.
You can find this book at Barnes and Nobles or online at the CollegeBoard website for around $19.</p>
<p>I personally DO NOT recommend Princeton’s though if you have not previously studied US history extensively (i.e. you did not take the AP course or you have not used other books to review). Like most Princeton books, this one reads fairly easily (you won’t fall asleep), but in doing so, it also cuts out A LOT of the information you need to get a very high score (750+). I would estimate that it covers about 80%-85% of the material you need to know. With only Princeton and assuming you took a US history course before, you may score a 700+), but it highly depends on how rigorous the course you took was. However, I found that the Princeton Review practice tests were pretty on par with the difficulty of the actual test. </p>
<p>As for practice tests specifically, for the May SAT IIs, I took a Barron’s test and scored a 700 (which is expected because the Barron’s practice tests are much more difficult than the actual test). I took a Princeton test and scored a 750. I took a CollegeBoard test and scored a 750.
For the June SAT IIs, I took a Barron’s test and scored a 720. I took a Princeton one and scored a 770. I took a CollegeBoard one and scored a 760.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>