Guys. The exam is in 5 days. What Strategy are you following? I really need an 800. Studying both Barrons and Princeton. Princeton is a little harder (Bigger too xD) , so I’m Concentrating Mainly on Barrons as there’s not much time left. Which books are you guys Using?
I’m just trying to finish the Barrons book… Reading all chapters, then I’ll solve 3/4 tests
@ThugLife13 I agree with you, PR has a crapton of material, I won’t be able to finish it in time (I had to skip parts of Electricity & Magnetism) so I think make a quick review of the most important topics (Mechanics) and modern physics and miscellaneous are out of question.
can you guys let me know the approximate percentages of question types? i.e. 50% mechanics questions, 30% thermodynamics questions. i think i’m gonna take it in the spring but my physics class only covered mechanics so i need a LOT of studying, would be helpful to know any questions that appear far less frequently.
DO NOT DISCUSS ANY ANSWER for atleast 14 Hours. It would simply give people who haven’t written the paper Potential Answers.
y do u care??? @ThugLife13
It increases the percentile idiot. That’ll simply decrease everyone else’s chances of scoring.
SO DO NOT DISCUSS FOR 10 HOURS more.
Anyone know which scoring chart is the most accurate among barrons/PR/sparknotes ??
How was the exam???
I used Barron’s only but found today’s test quite different and a bit hard.
This was really hard…10 blank and at least 20 wrong.
Barrons is not enough for SAT Physics. Princeton is a must. Barrons has really less information about some topics.
Same
As someone who studied only using a barrons physics book I felt that the test was very different. The barrons seemed more application based while the actual exam seemed more conceptual. I think I may have scored like a 720. Not very impressed honestly.
Now is a safe time to discuss. 
How was it guys? I found few Qs difficult.
Like the magnet one, it was C right?
the test was easier than PR tests. PR was really good for prep, unfortunately I couldn’t review all the topics in it, I could identify the topic of each question but I couldn’t recall several formulas. 700 maximum, what about you guys?
I took it last month after studying Barron’s (and only Barron’s), did pretty terribly, then cancelled my test.
Took it again today and thought I did much better this time around. Reason was that I used the Sparknotes SAT Physics online guide, which I felt explained a lot of the concepts that Barron’s underemphasized. I went in today knowing that the test focuses so much more on concepts than formulas and applications, and that made all the difference IMO.
Guys I had a doubt in 3 Qs. The first one is the Position of Magnetic lines (I answered C), the second one is the Girl running Q (I Answered 1.5Metres though i think its 3) and then the Thermal expansion one (I wrote all 3)
- I don’t remember what this question was.
- It is 3 meters. You may have calculated the time it takes for the ball to reach the peak (which would give you a distance of 1.5 m).
- Thickness would not expand as the amount of material in the disc (or whatever it is) is finite. The first two, however, would expand.
In response to your previous post about not discussing answers because they increase percentiles, the percentiles that CollegeBoard provides are based on the previous years’ test takers. On top of that, the amount of Physics test takers that actually look at these forums isn’t significant enough to affect percentiles (side note: Reddit’s discussions are usually more active). Finally, curves are predetermined because the SAT Subject Tests are standardized. Discussing answers after the test has no significant effect on the percentiles that show up on your score report or the curves, so there’s no need to get dramatic and call people idiots.
Hope this helps.
@cscience7 Thanks . The Question about the magnet was to find the position of Magnetic field at a given point. N the options were ABCDE which referred to different positions. I wrote C.
@ThugLife13 yeah c is absolutely right :)>-