Now’s a good time to panic.
Procrastinated a lot, and only 2 weeks left 
How well would i be prepared if i did only Barrons?
@guy6127 Me too, mate. Me too.
May be you should take a look at the PR’s practice tests and the official CB’s test after you’ve finished with Baron’s.
On another note, anyone else having problem with the lab procedure part? I kept mixing everything up, especially the part about the eudiometer.
are you specifically referring to a eudiometer question on the cb test? if so, I can’t help you, unless that test was released online? otherwise I know there’s a section about eudiometers on the barrons that was slightly helpful. Anyways, had a question… going through the barrons test when I see this question:
A. Least reactive family of elements
B. Alkali metals
C. Halogen family of elements
D. Noble gases
E. Family whose oxides form acids in water
- The elements least likely to become involved in chemical reactions.
A… and D? The correct answer is D, but why not A? Is it due to the wording? As in, A describes a specific family, and D is the actual elements within that family?
^^ elements least likely to be involved of chemical reactions. I think about valence electrons and how they determine a chemical reactio however if an element has a full valence electron of 8, they wont be involved jna chemical rxn. That’s how I percieve it. And I think key word is elements hence noble gases, not the family.
Don’t worry think positive, just use your time wisely and prep using barrons, it helped me.
@ineffable Well, I think it was aiming for either the distinction between noble gases and inert gases or the broadness of the first answer.
I have read the eudiometers part on Barron’s already. Even though I find it very informative, I keep mixing things up, like not knowing whether to add or subtract the vapor pressure to the atmospheric pressure and forgetting to change mmH2O to mmHg. Those kinds of thing. I suspect that it’s mostly because I lack practice and haven’t even seen an eudometer before.
The problem is, how to stop making those kinds of mistake in 2 weeks???
@guy6127 Why are there only two weeks left? There are solid 20 days left bro…
How are you guys preparing for this?
Are we supposed to learn tables such as reactivity series?
Barrons asks us to do so
@guy6127 Maybe? Better be safe than sorry. It’s pretty easy to remember. Anyone who had taken SAT 2 before here?
Was wondering if anyone had a link to some released tests… Also is anyone else having trouble taking these tests. I have taken 5 practice tests and gotten low 700s on all of them but when I go back and look at my mistakes they are all incredibly stupid. For example, i got a question that asked how adding helium would influence the following equation h2+i2= 2hi
Obviously it is just a spectator ion but when i took it on the test i said shift right thinking “thinking” helium was hydrogen. I make 7-10 of these mistakes per test and cant seem to kick the habit… Please help
@dminzi Practice makes perfect. Practice makes perfect, my friend. in the exact same situation
I have exactly one official practice test, though I heard that some past papers from the 90s are available online somewhere. No idea how accurate they are compared to the actual test.
So many things that I learned in honors last year didn’t learn in AP this year… nuclear chemistry, descriptive chemistry (especially ion colors), colligative properties, quantum numbers, writing certain reactions (metal hydride + water --> hydrogen gas + metal hydroxide), etc. I might just type a lot of stuff up in a word document and/or write it on paper.
Hardest part of the Chemistry SAT Subject, in my opinion, is the 2 true-or-false and correct explanation questions. Never have I seen this type of question until this exam.
My chemistry is so rusty lol
Hey guys, eighth grader here. I have been using the PR review practice test and kept hitting around 620 which is quite atrocious. I heard that there are some questions on the test which are quite odd, I encounter a question like which is the third most common gas in the atmosphere. What is a good place to learn random facts like these.
@CanadianStud I wouldn’t say that fact is very random. Any chem sat prep book would have that info in it.
@CanadianStud I think it only seemed random to you because PR doesn’t mention that fact in its review session. Actually, PR’s tests are artificially hard like that, testing you on things it hasn’t mentioned before. I recommend checking out Baron’s, since it’s a lot more informative than PR.
@CanadianStud: That type of question would be found in almost every SAT chemistry subject test. Just take more practice tests and you’ll get to the point where no question will be considered “random” for you. 