<p>Hello all, i have started preparing for the Sat subject test in physics and Maths which will be held in the first week of May. </p>
<p>This is actually a retake of my previous SAT Physics score in January which was a 690 and Maths in December which was 570 (pretty bad i know). </p>
<p>I need some tips for preparing for these subject tests, The last time i studied for Physics i used barrons, Although i was well prepared but i still don't know why i scored such low on the actual tests. </p>
<p>So this time i really need to score a 750+, how should i do that? Should i prepare from barrons again or use any other book? And how should i be preparing most important of all? </p>
<p>And now comes Maths, i have started preparing for it from Barrons aswell, last time i used princeton review for it and scored so low :p, Barrons is actually quite hard but i think it should be good enough, after i'm done with going through all the topics, i'll go through sparknotes once aswell and then just practice practice practice! :) </p>
<p>Any additional tips for Maths would be appreciated aswell. </p>
<p>I don’t know how seriously you should take me since I haven’t actually taken subject tests yet, but here goes</p>
<p>I’d suggest talking to your physics/math teachers and talk to them about specific areas you’re having trouble with; also, praaacccttiiicceee makes perfect. as far as i can tell from the PR SAT Physics, it’s a lot of examples, that don’t really do much. There’s no need to review everything, just what you got wrong, so do a lot of those types of problems until you feel confident in how to do them, to the point that you’d think you could teach them to someone else.</p>
<p>Can’t get a teacher to help me right now since that is practically impossible. </p>
<p>I have already started reviewing everything from Barrons, i hope that would help. The difficulty i seem to have is after i’m done with reviewing Barrons, i score high in the Barrons practice tests but low on the PR or Collegeboard practice tests since the content and the way they make the tests is different for each book. Wish there was a collegeboard book regarding SAT Subject tests in which one could review the topics not only the practice tests. =X</p>
<p>I’ll be going through some other book aswell once i’m done with barrons, which one should it be which has its content more related to the actual practice tests?</p>
<p>If Barron’s seems to different from the actual test, maybe you shouldn’t practice from it. Just make sure you understand the concepts, and then take actual CB practice tests</p>
<p>Barron’s books in Physics and Math are drastically different from the actual test. They will prepare you on the contents, but won’t be of much use if you’re looking for practice drills.</p>
<p>If you can, give Princeton Review (both Physics and Math) a look. Very good and quite accurate test questions and scoring. Also, if you have time, look for old actual tests. Search google, if you have no idea where to start.</p>
<p>I’m almost done with Maths level II from Barrons, talking about going through the content of the book, haven’t started the practice tests yet.</p>
<p>The thing is that although i do have a graphical calculator but i mostly like to solve the questions without using it and barrons doesn’t teach us that. I mean they only tell us to solve this question on the graphical calculator and doesn’t tell us how to solve them without using one. I am pretty much worried about that since i don’t even get a thing about how to solve Piecewise Functions and Parametric equations without using a graphical calculator. How did you guys handle such stuff? </p>
<p>I’m really worried about this before starting the practice tests since i pretty much know i won’t be able to score good in them. :/</p>