<p>SatII Literature, I'm not sure if I'll take it yet...any suggestions? Is it easy?</p>
<p>It's an extremely difficult test. I've had the chance to look at an AP Lit test, and a SAT II Lit test and they're fairly similar in difficulty. </p>
<p>I took the SAT twice and got 800 verbals on both test dates. However, I got a 740 on the SAT II Lit in October.</p>
<p>I can't stress this enough, this is a DIFFICULT test. You need to buy Kaplan's book which has 8 practice tests. Their practice tests are fairly close to the difficulty/content of the real test. Start practicing now, and go through as many practice tests as you can.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>For a second opinion, i got 650 in SAT1 verbal and i just did Lit without any prep and got 720... i actually found it a bit easier to be honest.</p>
<p>I got a 750 verbal with an SAT Prep course, and a 730 Literature score with the Kaplans book for preparation (best book - 8 practice tests!). I really think the score variance is due to the variety of poems and prose tested. If you get a piece of text that you don't understand at all, you're screwed. If you get something you really understand, or have even studied in school, you're in really good shape. I suggest you buy Kaplans book, and take it if you got above a 670 verbal.</p>
<p>Yeah, the Lit test's a pain. There are a handful of questions with "double answers", where either one seems to be justifiable. It's really a 50/50 guess. Literature is interpretive (to a certain degree) in nature, so a MC standardized test on it is bound to be troublesome.</p>
<p>I AGREE! THE LIT TEST IS HARD! My score was 40 points lower than my CR score!</p>
<p>Well I got a 680 on the verbal SAT, and actually just bought the Kaplan practice test book. I'll take a test or two and see what my scores are like on that, and see if I do want to take it. Right now I've got two decent SAT2 scores and like 3 absolutely lousy ones (in the mid 500s) so I should probably get a third good one. Thanks.</p>
<p>I got a 740 on SAT critical reading and an 800 on the Lit, both without review. I found the lit easier, probably because the reading selections were more enjoyable.</p>
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I got a 740 on SAT critical reading and an 800 on the Lit, both without review. I found the lit easier, probably because the reading selections were more enjoyable.
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<p>I'm almost the exact opposite: 800 CR and 720 Lit.</p>
<p>Personally I found the Lit test to be really quite easy. I mean I did not study at all walked in skipped several questions and still got a 700. Yeah this score sucks big time but with the type of preparation I did I would have expected around a 500. Basically if you are any good at CR type questions and the whole wordmaster thing and you study than you will be fine.</p>
<p>what wordmatser thing?
I did really badly in cr (620) but got a 780 on the lit... i don't even own that prep book I just like poetry and lit in general - so if u do take it.. if not then take some other thing...
the only prep I did was stuff to speed up my reading - u can actually speed up ur reading by about 8 times!</p>
<p>I thought it was pretty easy. I walked into the test thinking it would be on facts about different authors, so I had absolutely no preparation. I only realized that Lit. was a section when I was in there (changed from math). Anywho, I got a 740, which isn't that great, only 91 percentile, but I can certainly say that if I had walked into any other test without prep (which I did on the US His. and scored 100 pts lower) it would have sucked. So all in all, you'll do fine if you can read.</p>
<p>Isn't Literature supposed to be writing? Please don't tell me that the SAT II Literature exam is similar to the CR in the Reasoning Test.... Haveing already omitted French as a possibility, that would be horrendous, because I have no third SAT II Subject test to take.</p>
<p>Are we allowed to take both Math IC and Math IIC, or does taking the harder one omit the easier?</p>
<p>THe Literature section is poems and passages from novels and plays. so there is reading involved. well its all reading. and there is no writing.</p>