This is a thread for the sat subject test in literature for december. feel free to talk about how to study for the test, and how the test goes on test day
I’m thinking of switching one of my tests to literature. Sigh cramming is not a good idea…
Besides learning some literary terms and getting acquainted with CrackSat’s practice texts, I’m really just going in blind. Itll be nice to discuss how things went after the test, looking forward to that! Good luck 
@AGoodFloridian I’m doing the same thing, only using Barron’s instead
just had the test D: i found it pretty hard! Same as you guys, i only started studying 2 days before the date (as before that I had my A levels). Hoping for 750+
With the exception of one text, I found the test to be around the same difficulty as the official practice test, on which I got a 790. I haven’t had much time to prepare either, so I’m keeping my expectations low, but I’m hoping for 740+.
are you an international student?
@an1620 Yep. There is probably a difference between the US version and the intl version of the test when it comes to Subject Tests, if this is the reason you asked. I know there is for SAT Reasoning, pretty sure it applies here as well.
yes, i believe they have different versions because we take the test earlier than US students (I’m intl too)
i thought it was alright, what are some answers u remember. what answers do u remember in the flower,thesaurus, and the black person passage. i need to check my work.
What were some of the answers in the lesbo stepsister passage? Did Molly like Cynthia because of her overly trusting temperament, or was it her inability to penetrate Cynthia’s confidence?
On another note, if you prompt me with the questions, I can tell you what I put. Got an 800 on CR twice, so I’d like to think most of my answers were correct on lit, too.
That stepsister passage was odd
I don’t know anything about rhyme schemes…
@willay I put the second one what’d you say
I genuinely enjoyed Literature much more than I had imagined. Best section by far out of the three I took.
The only questions I completely guessed and skipped were the ones with technical terms. Iambic yadayada and all that other bull****.
About the stepsisters, @Ngzk07 , it was… An interesting text somewhat. If it weren’t on the SAT I would expect it to go a slightly more… “Different” route, wink wink.
There was the flower text, the one with the female lover longing her man, the one with the snarky(and awesome) woman comically berating men, Frederick Douglas poem, the Chinese wind chime story, and the thesaurus, I’m sure there were more, but I can’t recall.
There was one question that I used the remainder of my time to just sit and ponder… It was on the step sisters passage. Something about referencing a “school girl”. I concluded that the step sisters appeal/charm wasn’t that unusual, since it made it clear that “in every school…etc”. I won’t say the exact answer to not infringe any legal stuff, but you know what I’m talking about.
The beginning of the thesaurus passage also left me in question. The beast spoutIng out vocabulary versus the mystical lover or something transforming into a book. I would imagine that both, in their own ways, combine to be called “thesaurus”.
Deep thought was put into that one. I really enjoyed that test.
@collegeguy123456 I put overly trusting. The answer choices for that question were horrific.
@AGoodFloridian Yeah, I put that it wasn’t unusual. And nice job being sly there with the “legal stuff”, haha.
Alright, now prepare for the barrage of questions…
For the woman passage, did you say it was a comedy written by a woman, or a classic written by a woman? Was “pit buffoon” the only thing that didn’t refer to the (presumably male) audience?
For the waxing and waning love passage about lines 7-8 and 9-10 was it reject the basis of an emotion or something about paradoxes? Was feel in italics meant
For the Chinese passage, was it an episode that illustrated his family members’ personalities or an analysis on his fascination w/ his heritage? Was it indirect speech or an interior monologue?
For the lily/oak poem, was it best for consoling someone after the untimely death of a friend? Did “just” mean “fitting and true”?
Idk, can you guys think of other hard ones?
@willay
Definitely a comedy, she was ironic on more than one occasion. Would’ve loved to meet her in person.
Perhaps it meant combinxocaltocjemzockxxxxxal or whatever the heck that word was. Was probably wrong.
The wax and (some obscure word) gave me a sense that her feelings of longing diminished as he arrived, but returned as he left. The wax melts, and hardens. Could be wrong though.
Feel was emphasis of amazement at the ability.
Most likely a fascination with his heritage.
Yeah, I’d say something like to someone who had just lost a friend. Beautiful poem actually.
I thought just would mean barely or brief. The beauty of the lily was momentary, evanescent even.
For the trippy passage about the oak and the lily, was it 1 and 2 only? Also, I thought it might be comforting someone in his old age, because it talks about how living really long isn’t exactly fun and games.
Also, for the stepsister passage, I think it was either alienation or trusting-the choices were literally so bad on that one. For the Chinese SChool one, I’m not so sure that it was fascination of heritage as it was character analysis, because it never super explicitly states that he’s fascinated w his heritage?..
I also put merely for the “just” one.
TBH, I thought everything was extremely hard this test aside from the Douglas passage and the Chinese passage?..Was I the only one who thought this? This was much more difficult than the October test in my opinion