<p>Son took physics subject test yesterday. Thought it was very hard. Left 5 blank. Of the remaining 70 questions felt he had them down to 3 choices - any ideas on probability of how he did?</p>
<p>bump - Please any input would be helpful</p>
<p>physics curve is perhaps the most generous. you can get about 10 incorrect and still get 800. </p>
<p>your son should know how many he is sure he got CORRECT. without that, prediction is hard.</p>
<p>may be he should try another subject test which may be more to his strength.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. When I first asked him he was guessing he got about 1/2 right and leaving 5 blank. For his prep, he did only the first 23 question and got 16/23 so about 70%. He said he felt that they were similar to what was on the actual test. </p>
<p>Unfortunately he did not have the time to prepare the way he should have. He also took math 1 which he felt very confident about. I’m just asking because I don’t know if we should consider cancelling his score. He only needs these for BU and UDEL (so far), and I’m guessing that as long as they are ~600 or so it would be fine.</p>
<p>Any additional input would be helpful - thanks.</p>
<p>let’s do simple math. 70 questions with 70% correct=raw score of 49-5=44 – that would be about a 670. </p>
<p>70 questions 65% correct=raw score of 46-6=40 – -a raw score of about 35 would still get him over 620.</p>
<p>it’s reasonable to expect that he will get 600. no point in cancelling score. the best is to retake it or take another sat 2. colleges consider only best 2.</p>
<p>i didn’t realize udel requires sat2? is it for a scholarship?</p>
<p>Thanks - if he can get in the 6’s I think that is fine for the schools he is looking at that requires SAT II’s. I think anywhere in the 6’s is respectable.</p>
<p>UDEL - recommends SAT II’s but they are not required, and they don’t care what you take either. My guess is that the score - as long as it is 600 or better will be fine -</p>
<p>don’t worry about it. i took the may one, left 7 blank and guessed on a handful of them and i got a 720. The curve is really really generous since the physics subject test is pretty hard</p>
<p>jeez, you people are complaining that the SAT 2 physics is difficult ! its easy when you see that you can get 10 wrong and still a perfect score. For people like me who are from India, we dont even have to study to give the SAT 2 ! and half of us end up with 2400’s anyway ! i guess our science programs are much tougher and your english ones are better, but it cant be compared because English isnt our first language.</p>
<p>Oh brother!</p>
<p>but applications from the US have stronger EC’s which we cant match up to, sad . :P</p>
<p>indian ■■■■■ lol…</p>