<p>What is the best way to prepare for the chemistry subject test?</p>
<p>I’m interested in this as well. I hear Barron’s is good. Can anyone verify?</p>
<p>The best way to prepare is taking AP Chemistry and reviewing Barron’s.</p>
<p>My friend in SL IB Chem studied by reviewing the Kaplan book, and he got an 800, so that is a good alternative to Barron’s I suppose. I’m personally just using his Kaplan book I borrowed (taking it may). </p>
<p>Yes. Go with Barron’s. Princeton would be the next best.</p>
<p>I can personally say that Barron’s kicks a**. It reads more like a textbook than a review book! But I would recommend pulling out the topics from College Board and using a textbook to cover those topics in depth. Some of the best Chemistry textbooks are (in decreasing order of ‘goodness’)
- Petrucci’s General Chemistry
- Brown’s Chemistry - Central Science
- Chang’s Chemistry/Whitten’s Chemistry (both are equally good) </p>
<p>My D actually used the Barron’s and PR AP Chem books to prepare for AP Chem, and then do a few SAT2 Chem practice test from different books to prepare for the subject tests the week before the subject test.</p>
<p>@billcsho, Did you D had some exposure to Chemistry before taking the SAT (like a Chem course, college prep or honors or anything)? and How much did she score?
From personal experience, PR makes lame jokes, they aren’t even funny. Their lack of professional tone just gets on my nerves.</p>
<p>She took AP Chem in Junior and took the SAT2 in June right after the AP test. She got 5 and 800. She only took earth science which contains a little bit chemistry before the AP Chem.</p>
<p>Well, that’s really nice. What I’ve come to know about AP classes is that you don’t need any prior knowledge before taking it, just lots of aptitude, am I right?
High schooling in my country differs a lot, we’ve to study all the sciences for all the years but the intensity keeps increasing year by year, for e.g. Phy, Chem and Bio will be present in all the grades 9th, 10th 11th and 12th, it’ll only differ in rigor, you just can’t study Phy in grade 10th if you were’t attentive in 9th. That’s why I love american high schooling, it doesn’t matter if you s***ed in 9th, you don’t have to do the same in 10th and so on!</p>
<p>Ii am familiar with the education system like yours as I grew up in a country like that. In here, the syllabus depends on states and school districts. There are still pre-requisites for certain classes. You cannot just jump in and take AP Calculus BC or AP Physics C, for instance, at least in my school district.</p>