<p>Do you think its ok to take this as a soph in May? I usually get 98th percentile-ish on standardized test in the CR area. I took the 10 question practice test on collegeboard and got 10/10.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t if I were you. In a subject like lit. you’re only going to get better. You may as well wait until the end of junior year because you’ll have more reading under your belt.</p>
<p>I think you should take it now. Best case scenario, you get a subject test out of the way early with a good score. And doing it as a sophomore will make it look even better. Worst case scenario, you realize you need improvement and you waste a little time and money, but not big deal. Being a sophomore gives your score plausible deniability. It doesn’t really matter how much you have read… it matters whether you have the ability to read passages in antiquated styles and analyze them, and if you got 10/10 questions right, then I would say you are more than good in those departments.</p>
<p>I agree with jsmall. You don’t want to get a low score on lit by impulsively taking it. Lit is a pretty hard test for a lot of people. I got 800 CR on the SAT, I love to read, and it was quite a difficult test for me. Your friend shoudl wait until after his junior year, during which I presume he’ll take AP Language and Comp or maybe AP Lit depending on your school’s English track. He can take the test at the end of junior year.</p>
<p>Doing it as a sophomore won’t make it look ‘even better’ if his score is low. And when the majority of people taking sat ii lit are pretty great at lit in the first place (self selecting), and are older than him if he takes it now, he’s going to be at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>^^^Somehow I started thinking in the middle of my post that you were asking for your friend, not for yourself. Oops</p>
<p>does it really look better if i did well as a soph? do colleges look at WHEN you took the test? or just what you got?</p>
<p>and the reason i am considering taking it this year is that i’d like to get one out of the way
also, i want to take only one on a particular test date so that if i need to cancel it, i am able to do so without affecting other scores</p>
<p>Lit is probably one of the hardest subject tests out there. I’d probably try and take a full practice test under timed conditions to see how you do.</p>
<p>i think if you really WANT to do it - go ahead, it’s not really gonna hurt you in the long run. but if you want to save time, effort, and money, just wait until your junior year. if you’re naturally good at this anyway then it won’t add much stress later so what’s the harm in waiting?</p>
<p>There are two full practice tests available (both in books of real SAT IIs published by CB: one available new, the other out of print but available used). You really need to answer this question by doing the full-length practice tests, timed, as somebody else said. In any case, both of those books include real SAT IIs for many subjects, so getting them will help you gauge your readiness for other SAT IIs.</p>
<p>As other posters have suggested, this is not a high-stakes question for you: there’s no huge disadvantage either to taking it now or to waiting.</p>
<p>Why not try it? Maybe consider taking the bio test (if you’re a 10th grader taking bio) at the same session – My D really, really wishes she’d taken her bio exam right after the end of the class rather than having to bone up on it a year later.</p>
<p>Bleh, I was also considering it, but if it really is your best subject, hold out. Instead take the courses ending this year-namely science, history courses you’ll never take again. Only take two tests on a testing if you’re a frosh or soph, no point in taking 3 and stressing out. Honestly, I was debating the same thing last year (and I got an 800 on CR..junior now)</p>
<p>Reasoning? Possible situations:</p>
<p>You take the test-you do FABULOUS. 800-the whole nine yards! Great, but then you’ll be overconfident for the other tests-(“I already have this SAT II stuff bagged”)…and trust me, the other SAT II’s require a lot of studying.</p>
<p>You do okay. (650-750)-depending on how anal you are, you will probably want to retake this if it is your best subject. </p>
<p>You do horrible…obvious reasons why this is bad. </p>
<p>If it helps, I’ll tell you what I did:
Frosh-Biology (670)
Soph-Global History (690)
&& Chem (720)
then this year:
Junior-May-Lit & American History-match up with AP’s</p>
<p>If you have read a lot of 17th century to modern British and American lit, and you score well on a few practice tests, then I would say go for it. however, just because your critical reading score is high, you probably will not do well on the lit test if you’ve never read a wordsworth poem (which is an arbitrary example, but you get my point…)</p>