<p>what's easy to prep physics or Chemistry...
and if you know everything what Sparknotes's physics has to offer, are you fit for 700+ at the real thing?</p>
<p>To apply a knowledge is more important than to just know it. If you can 100% apply everything SparkNotes has to offer, of course you can score high.</p>
<p>What is in the SATII physics? I'm in regular Physics now(not honors). Am I still able to do it very well? Does it include something in AP Physics?</p>
<p>Hogan, you should be fine on physics even if you are in a lower lvl physics( I assume trig based rather than calc).</p>
<p>Just get the sparknotes book/use the webpage for it and you should be able to break 700.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm in "lower lvl physics". Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>I got 770 on the last administration.</p>
<p>I think if you know **everything*<a href="note%20the%20emphasis">/i</a> on Sparknotes, you will get a 800 FOR SURE. However, like what the posters said before, being able to apply the knowledge will earn you a far higher score than just pure memorization of formulae.</p>
<p>being in a low-level physics (nothing wrong with it, either. i'm only slightly ashamed =P ) class does not put you at an advantage. calculus does not come up on the test at all. any class suitable for the physics B exam is fine for taking the subject test. the key is taking it right after the class. i took it a month after the AP test (lowly physics B!) and still got an 800 without any preparation. the best advice is: understand what you're taught. unless you're self-studying the material, you should have no problem getting a 700+ .</p>
<p>oasis and rhapsody are right, a thorough understanding of the material and the ability to apply it is essential. however, i remind the test-taker that the ability to apply like they have suggested lies in a firm comprehension of the equations and rules. sounds unpleasant (unless you're sick like me and actually enjoy this stuff), but it's the truth. nothing beats a deep understanding of the material.</p>
<p>I completely agree with the above poster. I took the exam the Saturday before the AP test. I just took two practice tests the night before the test and just murdered it because of the AP prep. Then feeling full of myself, I went on to destroy the AP test two days later. I ended up with an 800 and a 5 btw. However, back to the SATII, I felt as if all I really had to do was as others have said, is get the conceptual stuff. Because there is no calculator allowed, the math involved is pretty easy and there isn't that much formula memorization needed. Of course basic equations are needed, but not more than 20-25. I imagine with good conceptual basis, 700+ is guaranteed.</p>
<p>Hey ppl
Is the Sat physics designed in such a way that it is nearly impossible to finished 75 questions in one hour? And also by the way are there sparknote practice tests free online? Thaks</p>
<p>The sparknotes tests are free online. Just create a new registration each time to get a free test. It is very possible and, in fact, not at all difficult to finish all of the 75 questions in the allotted hour. They are mainly conceptual rather than mathematically heavy problems.</p>
<p>Yup, the above poster is correct. It is very possible to finish the test in under an hour. You should take your time, and if a question is too difficult, skip it. They are all worth the same, so don't get caught up on just one problem.</p>
<p>i only had half a semester of physics (kinematics, heat transfers, sound waves) and i didn't know anything about the other half (electric fields and all those strange electic diagrams) which i'm taking now, i used pr to review and practice the stuff i knew, only glanced at the stuff i didn't, on the actual test last december i skipped all the problems i knew nothing about and I got a 720...which i'm quite satisfied with since i didn't know a lot....</p>
<p>what i worked at was accuracy since in practice i often read the question too fast and missed the problem...so just work carefully and skip questions you don't know...</p>
<p>what to memorize? well i just memorized the formulas pr told me to...which wasn't too bad....</p>
<p>Well I just took the test. The actual thing was harder than PR. On today's test there were a lot of the questions with 3 statements requiring you to choose which ones are true (the I. II. III. questions). Those slow me down. I think there was about 10 to 15 of those types of questions. That's way more than any practice test (spark, pr, or barrons) I have taken.</p>
<p>I skipped 15 questions, but I'm pretty sure I got the ones I did answer correct. At most I might have gotten 5 or 6 wrong... So according to PR I think that leaves me somewhere around 750 as a lower estimate.</p>
<p>What would I have done different to get a 800? I would have saved all the I. II. III. questions for last. I think that would have raised my score significantly. I knew all the material, but those I. II. III. questions take me about 1.5 times longer than the regular questions.</p>
<p>But who knows, maybe if the curve is good I might have gotten an 800. (I'm not 100% sure, but I do think they grade the physics test on a curve. At least I remember reading that somewhere.)</p>
<p>So does Hewitt's Conceptual Physics cover thoroughly all that is needed to know for the sat physics?
Thanks.</p>
<p>JOHN M or anyone else who took physics
Lets talk about the physics test since you took it.
What were your responses?
1) an object sliding down with constant velocity: was it momentum that remain the same all times or was it kinetic energy?
2) The roman numerals with ammeter, voltmeter and electroscope? was ot only 1 and 2 (A and V, not electroscope)
3) what was the magnitude for the energy mass conversion problem? I rushed and got 10^-21. dont know if it is right
4) which has the greatest average power? was it the heaviest or cannot be determined
5) what was sin theta1 for the snells law application in the glass and air medium?
6) The beam 1 2 and 3 what statement was true?
7) what is true about electrons? Is it that they have zero mass at rest or during motion (or it was neither of these choices that is correct)?
8) Plane mirror was it all three body parts that can be viewed (roman numerals) And also when the distance of the person increases, the image does not change at all, right?</p>
<p>Please!!! any thought and feedback on these problems is greatly appreciated. thanks a lot people</p>
<p>SkingS36, Post on the Official Physics Nov 28 SAT 2 Test thread!</p>
<p>SkingS36,</p>
<p>1) Was this the car going down the hill problem? I'm foggy here. If you can describe the problem better I might remember.</p>
<p>2) Since Resistance R= V/I, only the ammeter and voltometer are needed to measure resistance. The electroscope would measure quantity of charge which is not necessary.</p>
<p>3) Don't recall.</p>
<p>4) Yeah, the heaviest kid would expend the most power. Since P = W/t and the work he had to do was mgh, the only thing that is different is mass m. Time, gravity, and height were all equal. Therefore the heavy kid expended the most power.</p>
<p>5) This was one I "saved for later" but never got back to! This was a lame question, because it was essentially a trig identity question. Wasn't expecting that.</p>
<p>6) Explain it better; maybe I'll remember</p>
<p>7) Electrons have mass! If they became 0 in mass, they would become pure energy and cease to be electrons. I forget the other choice.</p>
<p>8) I just used my intuition on this. I only studied lenses, never mirrors. But my intuition told me that all three body parts could be seen.</p>
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So does Hewitt's Conceptual Physics cover thoroughly all that is needed to know for the sat physics?
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No. Hewitt (at least my edition, the 8th) is very light on formulas and problem work. For example, I don't think there was anything on capacitors. It's a conceptual book, which is good. But I would use Princeton Review as a supplement in order to get a more mathematical application of the theory.</p>
<p>1) I put kinetic energy but I dont know if it's correct. I tought momentum is vectorial so it cant be constant.
2)ammeter, voltmeter
3) dont remember
4)heaviest kid more power
5) done it but dont remember the answer
6) dont remeber the question,can u explain better?
7) i had no clue
8) also went by intuition, that you can see full body if you go farther</p>
<p>anyone remembers more questions?</p>