Official SAT Subject Test - Biology E/M - June 2015

Omg the online practice tests and the tests in the review books are trash. College Board needs to release some of the used tests to us.

I have a few official used tests from my AP Bio teacher. They are a lot easier than all the tests in these review books. But they also vary very much. One test was information I was all really familiar with while another had a lot of plant hormones and human anatomy that I just reviewed in my Barrons book.

What are you guys aiming for tomorrow?

Are you guys going to discuss answers on here afterwards?

I’m aiming 700+… Anyone know how specific the questions on anatomy (human and animal) and plants are?

Aiming for 750+. Otherwise I’m gonna retake in fall next year after reviewing in summer.

@sscharter from what I’ve heard, the human anatomy questions are pretty simple, no need to get into a tremendous amount of detail. But I’ve heard there’s a lot of plant-related questions, though.

Has anyone gotten a higher score for the Barrons practice tests than Princeton review’s? I basically aced the Barrons ones, but got a ton of questions wrong on Princeton’s…

I find that it’s easier to make careless mistakes on Princeton :slight_smile: so if you read the questions carefully during the exam, you’ll be fine. Barrons is all you need.

The second test was much easier for me in the Barron’s book. If I didn’t make any careless mistakes, I would’ve gotten a 740.

Anyone taken the international one yet?

i totally agree with you!! i got a 650 on the first barron’s test and just got a 760 on the second one (i did correction and a little restudying after i got that 650 and it helped a lot)

Anyone taken it yet? international?

I took it today…better than I thought

What was the answer for the tree question?

need a little more information than that lolll what tree question?

@pqaixx the one that asked why pines are on the north side of a mountain while shrubs grew on the south. And also, what was the answer to the vitamin question? it was something like which is a correct description of vitamins… organisms can’t synthesize it… vitamins need to be in large amounts to be effective… vitamins are similar in structure… all organisms need the same vitamins…

Organisms can’t synthesize vitamins

for tree I said because the pines can’t grow in sleep slopes. For vitamins I said organisms cannot synthesize. WHAT DID YOU GET FOR THE MAMMALS ANS MARSUPIASL

@squash0107 wait I think I remember this one, do you remember more of the question or answer choices?

it was that either they don’t have hair or they don’t have limbs and feet I said hair thinking that Dolphins don’t have hair but apparently they have hair in their nostrils so I got that wrong