<p>My little brother is a freshman who is enrolled in Biology Honors this year. He is thinking about taking the SAT II Biology in June. He's maintaining a high A and consistently sets the curve.</p>
<p>Thing is, he's also going to take AP Bio in his junior year but by then, he'll have to worry and study for all of his other testing.</p>
<p>Is the SAT II Biology hard and is it worth it to take it early?</p>
<p>Any advice would be appreciated!</p>
<p>Um...???</p>
<p>Why don't you ask fan, she seems to have mastered the SAT II bio :)</p>
<p>I got A+ in freshman honors biology (highest average)--> 700 SAT II
I got A in sophomore honors chemistry (not highest average)--> 770 </p>
<p>It's not even like my bio teacher was bad or that I didnt' study for the test, so I suggest you wait until junior year or take chemistry sophomore year, if you're so worried about doing so much testing junior year.</p>
<p>as long as u self study a bit u should be fine i didnt really study and got a 740 after freshman biology. most people get higher after AP tho so i would suggest him take it after AP bio but if he wants he can always take it after freshman year =P</p>
<p>my friend and i took ap bio junior year...we both got 5's and we didnt study like at all.
she then took the SAT II without studying again and she got like a 770 or something</p>
<p>yah do it after AP, because it'll be a lot easier to do the molecular one after preparing for the AP itself, plus i think u can do the SAT in june after the ap is over, so u can be nice and relaxed for it</p>
<p>i took biology as a freshman with an mid-A average and got 800 on the SATII after studying ~5 hours per day for a week. it's really just a lot of memorization, so if your brother is good at that it shouldn't be too bad. for studying i used barrons and kaplan review books. since it appears your brother is strong in bio, i'd recommend taking the test now b/c it's one less test to take junior year, when the testing gets really hard. also, i'd recommend taking molecular over ecological, but that's probably because our class covered more molecular than ecological over the school year.</p>
<p>umm....I took the ecology one as a sophomore after getting a shaky A in honors Bio, studied from princeton review for like, maybe 4-5 hours total and got a 770, so maybe it was just the test I took, but I really didn't think it was bad at all</p>
<p>Wow, I guess I must have screwed up big time on that test. It was one of the easiest classes, but I got my lowest SAT II score on it. Thank god there was score choice back then!</p>
<p>I took Bio SAT II my frosh year after taking the general bio curve.</p>
<p>I felt more than prepared. Using a study guide in conjunction with my textbook, I got a 790.</p>
<p>I also took the Chemistry SAT II after taking the review course and did well as well.</p>
<p>AP Bio teaches beyond what the SAT II requires you to know.</p>
<p>i got a 780 after ap bio...</p>
<p>it wasn't bad, but i didn't know anatomy very well so i was screwed up by a diagram of the ear</p>
<p>I took it freshman year. It was normal bio. I got an A+ in the class and an 800 on the test (bio M). </p>
<p>I definitely recommend taking it freshman year because you have a lot more time to study, it's nice to get on SAT2 out of the way early.</p>
<p>obviously everyone is different and the more biology you study the higher the score. why don't you just let your brother do a practice test and see how he does. no one really knows for sure what he should do with the limited info you gave.</p>
<p>So what did u guys think would be easier: molecular or ecology since he's pretty good at both...</p>
<p>Anatomy? We never learned that in 9th grade bio...</p>
<p>I think most honors biology usually focuses on molecular biology, while regular biology focuses on ecology, so he's probably better prepared for the molecular. In my class, which was a molecular biology class, people still found the ecology questions easier, so most people chose biology E, against the strong orders of my teacher to choose M. Few chose M, but those who did got higher scores than those who chose E. But that was probably because the people who chose M were more comfortable w/ the subject and knew more/were better at biology. In my class it was 750+M, 710M, 700M (Me), and then everyone else took E and got 600s or lower.</p>
<p>Also, if you haven't learned anatomy, Kaplan does a pretty good job of it. That's what my sister used for the test. She studied the ear anatomy b/c she didn't learn it at all, and it actually showed up on the test, several questions on it.</p>
<p>"Wow, I guess I must have screwed up big time on that test. It was one of the easiest classes, but I got my lowest SAT II score on it. Thank god there was score choice back then!"</p>
<p>I was wondering what is score choice and why is it not available anymore?</p>
<p>Score choice was a "service" that let you see the score before deciding whether or not you wanted it to be part of your score report. You had to pay a little extra money, but if you didn't do well, you could decide that the colleges wouldn't see this score. The last time this was offered was June 2002, which was my freshman year. They took it away because it gave richer people an advantage because they could re-take SAT II tests many times without colleges knowing it.</p>