<p>hey i'm from New Zealand and open to answers from anybody
My high School doesn't offer SAT nor do any schools in my region how do i go about learning the content for classes eg SATll classes and AP classes.</p>
<p>I'm also obviously in the Southern Hemisphere (so i start school in JAN/FEB and finish in NOV) so how did you guys go about applying as in when would you go to uni in the US. Would you apply so you leave in september of your last year of school( in my case year 13) or do you wait until the next September.</p>
<p>Also is there a limit to how many SATll or AP exams you can take as i an only take 6 subjects at my school and i want to take at least 2 sciences so i can apply for uni in nz as well </p>
<p>First of all, if your school does not offer AP courses (local foreign schools don’t) forget about APs. No one expects you to take them.</p>
<p>I am not sure what your concern is about SAT IIs. Most colleges want you to take 2 SAT IIs, only very few require 3. It usually doesn’t matter which subjects you take them in, but a few colleges have preferences depending on their mission (e.g. engineering colleges often require math and a science; a few liberal arts colleges prefer at least one of your subject tests to be in a non-science).</p>
My high School doesn’t offer SAT nor do any schools in my region how do i go about learning the content for classes eg SATll classes
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From how this sounds, I gathered that you thought there are classes called “SAT II [subject]” offered in USA. In countries like USA, there are SAT prep classes offered, but most people don’t take them, but rather, they self-study with SAT II preparation books. You should first look at the lists of offered SAT II tests (at College Board website), and then see which ones you could do the best.
After you decide which 2 (or 3) you want to take, go to <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/</a> subforum and look around or ask people which prep book would be the best. (Or if there are other students from NZ to ask how they prepped)</p>
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There is a user called “Sidfromaus” (is this the correct spell.?), an Australian student accepted to MIT, so try contacting him.</p>
<p>hey nzrower, my name is Shane and I’m an Australian applying to US colleges this year.</p>
<p>I just took the SATs in May and SAT II in June, and was able to achieve 2300 for SAT I and 800 for both my SAT subject tests. </p>
<p>You do not need specific SAT classes to do well in the SATs. For the SAT Reasoning Test, buy the Official SAT Study Guide by the Collegeboard and do as many practice papers in timed, exam conditions as you can. It is a lot of work, especially if you’ve got work from NZ high school as well, but as you do it, you will see the difference in your scores.</p>
<p>For the SAT Subject Tests, choose subjects which you have done a course in school. For example, I chose Maths Level 2 and Biology M. The content is not very different from Australian (and probably not NZ) courses. </p>
<p>I would also highly recommend buying a couple of review books for the SAT subject tests you are taking. For Math IIC, I highly recommend Barron’s “SAT II Math Level IIC” by Dodge and Ku, and for Biology E/M, Kaplan’s “SAT Subject Test: Biology E/M”. I have also heard good things about Princeton Review’s “Cracking the SAT Biology E/M”, but I personally haven’t tried this one.</p>
<p>So, if you work from the Collegeboard SAT book and choose 2 or 3 subjects you are good at for the SAT subject tests, you can achieve good scores (600- 800).</p>
<p>Good luck and I wish you the best with your exams and college applications,
Shane King,</p>