SAT BIO 800 What was your strategy?

<p>I am currently a student in AP Bio. I read through the Kaplan book, but I am curious how much other ap bio students studied and what htey got. I have 1 week to prepare. What should I do? I NEED an 800 or I shall disappoint myself.</p>

<p>I'm also an AP Bio student who's taking the SAT II this Saturday. I'm reading over Cliffnotes (2 chapters every day) and hope to finish the book by then. I'm also doing Barron's practice tests at the same time. >.< I need a 800 too, do ppl think they're gonna take M or E?</p>

<p>lol, It's not happening. Have fun dissapointing yourself. You can't not prepare and expect it to pay off.</p>

<p>He does want to prepare though...</p>

<p>Well, if you really have only a week; then I would suggest you start with reading the whole PR book; it covers pretty much almost everything on the test, plus it takes only a few days to finish. Then take practice tests, tons of them, like in PR, Kaplan, and Barrons. Study the solutions after each practice test.. I think that's it, and you should get 750 up after this. Good luck</p>

<p>Read every bio book you can find. No joke.</p>

<p>Just... read. And practice. But read first.</p>

<p>The more you know about biology (even if it's not on the exam) the better off you'll be.</p>

<p>I'm taking it Saturday too. Unfortunately, I have a research paper and a bunch of tests this week, so I haven't studied much lately. :( I plan on getting in a few hours friday night. I've been looking over the material/tests in PR and Kaplan's</p>

<p>I read through all of kaplan yesterday afternoon. taking a practice test today. let see how I fare on kapalan's sat bio</p>

<p>So what'd you get on the practice?</p>

<p>I can't get higher than a 650 on their practice X_X.</p>

<p>770 not as good as I had hoped</p>

<p>I am using Sparknotes which was the only one at the Barnes and Noble I went to. It is the "5 More Practice Tests" version. How accurate are these problems? I took the fourth test today and they seemed very easy. I don't want to psyche myself out and think the test will be easier than it will be...</p>

<p>I am cheap and I drove to Border's today and read through the real sat subject tests book and left. the test in there is kind of easy, but it may be a college board trick.</p>

<p>I also used Border's copy of the Real SAT Subject Tests book and took the Bio one.</p>

<p>I missed 1 question and omitted 2, netting a 77.</p>

<p>It seemed VERY simple...</p>

<p>I'm in AP Bio, so... if you're good at it, this should be typical? XD I dunno.</p>

<p>Question: Can you look at the E and M section before you choose which one to do?</p>

<p>yes. to the question above. you most definitely can. i took it last year, took one look at the E section and switched to the M.....technically not supposed to, but even my teacher said we should.</p>

<p>thanks, looeypie</p>

<p>sorry this is kind of OT, but can you also look at other tests and decide to take those instead? for example, if you signed up to take US history, could you flip through the literature test to see of it's easier, and take that one instead of US history??</p>

<p>that would require some serious sneakiness. you could get in trouble for that i think...and i think you have to decide before you take it and bubble? i would advise against it, really.</p>

<p>sat has too many rules.</p>

<p>got teh 800. In the end, I just did some practice tests cause we had sooo many tests at school that week. Thank god my AP Bio class was so thorough!</p>