I thought it was pretty difficult. Seemed a lot harder than the practice tests.
@NJparent2000 I thought it was quite hard too, I always scored an 800 on the Barron’s tests. This test, on the other hand, absolutely mothered me.
Harder than barron’s but at level to princeton. Many questions were directly taken from princeton!
How come noone’s discussing?
What was he answer to the 2nd part of the quarks question. (Which combination is not possible?)
@guy6127 I think it was the one that had a charge of -2e
Mind explaining? Didnt get that one
The 3 charges were: 2/3, -1/3, -1/3. No combination of these charges will give you a sum of -2
Cant believe i missed that one, thanks.
Do you remeber any other questions worth discussing?
This test was so strange… Half of the problems were either ridiculously easy or made me skip them altogether. Nonetheless, my mind felt destroyed. Hopefully I did better than the October one (got a 720).
Ok, wondering if I should cancel this one. I got a 770 on the last one…
What was the one with the quasars? Also the wave one with the water boat?
Oh the test was unimaginably difficult. Lol forget Barron’s (those questions are pieces of cake compared to the actual more conceptual test), but the physics test was even harder than the ones at the Princeton review test. Skipped like 6 questions and feeling completely destroyed right now
@Defeat Guessed on the water boat saying they were equal. For the quasars, two options were true, but the observation stated itself leaned toward the big bang since it was farther away (hope this makes sense).
@DaVinciII Honestly this test was a joke easy in the sense that most questions required no thought. But, for some reason, the test makers blatantly crafted questions leaded toward those who have had lab experience (weights affecting centripetal force) or are familiar with the strangeness of quarks, etc. As someone coming from a school that doesn’t have anything beyond honors physics (which really only touches on kinematics and light), I feel like this exam is extremely biased toward those who are able to have AP Physics lab experience, etc.
I’d be happy with a 750 at this point considering this test sort of feels like BS (the time limit completely destroys the beauty and ability to rationalize physics and there are WAY too many topics covered) and the fact that I had to self-learn all of this.
Well, what was the answer for the weights?
Ah ok thanks for the response. Ugh, I probably will cancel this… Also, did you really need lab experience for the centripetal one? I thought you could solve it pretty easily provided you know the formulas for centripetal and what influences what. Also, I don’t even think you had to know anything about quarks for the quarks problem. Heck, you didn’t even have to know what strangeness meant as long as you could read a chart and know that they were additive.
Also, what was the one with the voltmeter attached to a lightbulb? Was it in parallel with the bulb and resistor?
just the bulb
What was the one for two slits?
For the weights, wasn’t it velocity and frequency?
Also for the slits, i think the question was which factor would extend the fringes or something? It would be increasing wave length and decreasing slit distance.
@Defeat Yeah a lot of the problems were pretty easy by itself, but lab experience definitely helps in this one vs other practice tests I’ve taken. One problem specified what materials needed for a lab, which reminded me of AP Physics. Again, that one is easy to figure out if you know the concepts without lab, but if you have done labs, then that one is a freebie.
Yeah…only about half of the problems were problems I could answer. The rest ran me over in a heartbeat (mostly optics, magnetism, and some electrostatics questions). Oh well. Bye, hopes and dreams.
I’ve also done no labs in physics, so I couldn’t depend on that.
The one which asked for force between two ponts to be 0.
It was to between the extreme right and the charge to the right, right?
Hm… I don’t remember that question. I do remember a question with large masses though…
Also what was the answer to that water fall question? Was it that we had to assume that all the energy would be converted to the bottom?