<p>liveforscience, our usernames are oddly alike…</p>
<p>Should I retake a 750?
Edit: M</p>
<p>Can someone explain why CO2 is not an organic molecule when it has carbon??</p>
<p>it just isn’t. random bio/chem fact</p>
<p>@Practical, CO, CO2, and any form of carbonates (anything + CO3) is not organic.</p>
<p>I’ll be taking biology next year, but already I can see random facts from chemistry are going to be useful :)</p>
<p>Sooo the detailed report was supposed to come out today, but all mine says is the percentile and my “range”. I thought it would have the questions we missed, etc?</p>
<p>Do college admissions officers look at SAT Subject Test scores just to see whether or not you’ve made it into their pool, or do they use these scores to actually analyze and differentiate between students? As in, will my 750 Bio M score be a significant disadvantage for me in comparison to the countless applicants with higher scores? (I’m asking specifically about admissions at the most selective schools.)</p>
<p>I’m not looking to major in Biology in college, but I worked hard in AP Bio at school this year and was hoping for something higher than 750. (The average SAT II Bio M score at my school is 730 - and this includes people who didn’t take Honors or AP Bio.) Also, the College Board website just informed me that 750 is only at the 85 percentile nationally…</p>
<p>I’m basically trying to decide whether or not I should retake it. I don’t want to look like a “score whore” because I’m really not – I’m normally never this picky, but I don’t want one SAT Subject Test score to be the reason that a college chooses someone else over me.</p>
<p>@kitkat522: Nope, the subject tests’ detailed reports merely tell the percentile. The regular SAT tells you what you missed and whatnot.</p>
<p>hakunamatata!: Do not worry about your score. 750+ scores and up are competitive at the top colleges (Ivy Leagues, Stanford, MIT, etc.). They will not choose someone else just based on one subject test score. The subject test score is just to gauge your relative performance and once it is competent and above a certain threshold, it doesn’t matter as much. The percentile is not that important either. For math 2, a perfect 800 score is only in the 88 percentile. Should I retake that to get a 900? Lol. The point is that the scaled score is valued more than the percentile. The percentile is just showing that the group of test takers was self selective and consisted of the best people in that subject. So overall, your score is fine. Do not retake.</p>
<p>Thank you for that reply, because I am in the same situation. I know everyone says 750+ is great, but I’ve been feeling that I’m just on the threshold. I won’t retake, even though I’d like to go into pre-med…WAIT should I retake then? :[] Ahhh on again, off again. Even so, I’d either retake in Oct, or wait until after AP. My parents think I’m crazy for wanting to retake, which I am. :D</p>
<p>@Apoc314, thank you so much for your reply! Taking your perspective into account and reevaluating the situation, I’ve decided to not retake. I will just study hard for the Lit and French SAT II’s, which I had planned to take in the fall anyway.</p>
<p>I somewhat wish that I was going into something not sciencey so that a eh score in Bio wouldn’t matter. But alas, I’m probably only going to retake Bio SAT II and then take Math II.</p>
<p>Oh and liv4physicz, we really do have similar usernames! Oddly, my username was meant to have two meanings: 1) live for science and 2) live for(ensic) science (which I’m very into!)</p>
<p>4N6!?! Wooo, what event?</p>
<p>I was really upset when I saw my score. I straight up expected an 800 because I am really good at bio (sorry to toot my own horn) and thought the test was really easy but got 780 (decent score). Does anyone feel like less people got 800s on the June SAT 2 biology?? I talked to so many smart people and they didn’t get 800s on the June test.</p>
<p>Maybe. Nobody at my school got 800’s on the SAT II Bio. A few of my friends and I who are pretty good at bio (we’re all USABO Semifinalists) got 770-790 on the SAT II Bio exam. It could be that some of us studied a lot of hormones which didn’t end up on the test and got surprised by the other types of questions asked. Eh, don’t worry about it. 780 is a great score.</p>
<p>can you take E and M on the same day? or are they on the same test? or! are they two different tests? thanks!</p>
<p>You can’t take bio E and M on the same day (I’m pretty sure) as the first 60 core questions are the same</p>
<p>@ahhhdavid: Parallelism speaks the truth. You have to take them separately, but honestly I don’t think it’s worth it. Colleges would probably rather see a test in another subject area, or possibly a different science (chem).</p>