<p>I am contemplating taking this test, but I will only have ONE opportunity to take it. </p>
<p>I want to be certain. </p>
<p>In the test- do they ask you to identify quotes from books?</p>
<p>Must you have read many books to do well on the test (from a standpoint of knowing the plot lines of famous literature)</p>
<p>Or is it a test of sentence structure, reading and interpretation of passages FROM literature, and the test giving you short stories and asking you questions about them?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>All you need to be able to do is analyze literature. No knowledge of existing literature is required.</p>
<p>Sometimes the Lit tests throws in some literary terms as well, so studying a little Lit and Poetry vocab can help.</p>
<p>should you take AP literature/language before taking the lit SAT II??</p>
<p>It's a good idea as that'll give you practice. But the literature test is really like critical reading on steroids -- it's really hard to study for if you're not already naturally endowed with literary analysis ability.</p>
<p>No need to know quotes. However, analyzing is key here. It's not a memorization test like some other SAT IIs. It's generally considered one of the harder SAT subject tests so be sure you can do well on it before you take it.</p>
<p>is it one of those things that "english-y" people can do really well on without studying much?</p>
<p>lol explode you pretty much hit the hammer on the nail... doing well on it comes mostly from reading a lot throughout one's lifetime.</p>
<p>haaha... okay... so I'll just grab a review book and try it for the hell of it. I took a sparknotes test and I did decently on it... so if it's similar I'll probably be alright. What about the poetry terms, though?? =/ The ones I got wrong were on the Poetry /Lit vocab.... is there any place I can find a list of these words I should know?</p>