<p>Anyone here taking this on June 4? I will be.</p>
<p>I just bought a Kaplan 2005-2006 review book and finished AP Chemistry.</p>
<p>Hopefully this should be an easy 800. What books are you guys using? What books have helped for those who have taken it in the past?</p>
<p>It's strictly multiple choice, so I'm guessing it won't be too bad. However, there's 60 minutes to do 85 questions... eek that's a rather fast pace.</p>
<p>Anyways.. reply away :D</p>
<p>Don't use Kaplan. It's awful. Most books are. They won't help at all. All you'll probably want to do is take a few practices.</p>
<p>If you took AP, you'll look at the SAT II and say "Wow - this looks JUST like the AP" because it is. It's even teh same format - first questions are matching of like Ions and stuff, and the questions are basically the same. If you get a 5 AP, you can get a 750+.</p>
<p>I was looking through other books.. (PR, Barrons in particular)</p>
<p>I didn't like their format as much as Kaplan... oh well</p>
<p>Also, I loved my Kaplan for Micro/Macro</p>
<p>Personally I used PR for AP Chem.. but the PR book for sat chem didn't appeal to me.. argh</p>
<p>thanks for the reply anyways :)</p>
<p>I agree: Kaplan sucks. The only thing I really found to be difficult about the SAT2 Chem exam was the T/F/CE section. I should have practiced that a lot more than I did, but I was too preoccupied studying for all my AP exams the same week.</p>
<p>I personally like Barron's, especially the practice tests and the explanations... Does anyone know if we have to memorize many formulas, like Keq or Hess's law, or certain constants and other fixed numbers because we are not allowed to have calculators or like... reference tables.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure... I'm guessing you should know the concept, but the actual computations won't be harder than simple algebra because we don't have a calculator.</p>
<p>do you think it is advisible to take the sat ii chem after chem h?</p>
<p>i used the ap chem book from princeton review to prepare for the ap exam, didn't bother to study an additional time for the chem sat 2, and ended up doing fine (5 on ap and 760 on sat 2).</p>
<p>I am just about to finish chem h. i dont feel like waiting for the end of senior year to take chem sat's but im at top of class and my mother's a chemist... and i just wanted to ask if the percentages of questions given is a close estimate (25% structure, 15% states of mmatter etc)?
And what topics do you guys suggest studyin more heavily, considering im not the "person that studies type", this is probly the first test i am bothering to prepare for.</p>
<p>I have PR and it's not bad but kind of easy. I am going to check out some earlier editions of Barrons and Kaplan from the library. I am getting like 660-670 on practice tests and aiming for 700-750. Hopefully I can still improve :(
I am not taking an AP but my school is crazy science oriented so yea... hopefully I will do well on this thing.
Also, I heard it is the hardest test of SAT IIs - anyone cares to confirm?</p>
<p>Hardest... meh.. that's always relative to the person.</p>
<p>However, if you're a science oriented person, it shouldn't be that bad compared to others such as Lit.</p>
<p>The best training have a good teacher and take it after or during AP Chem. You shouldn't have a problem. If you are ready for the Chem AP the Chem SAT II will be the biggest cakewalk in the world. (On a side note I'm grateful that our AP Chem final (optional) is an SAT II).</p>
<p>Is real sat 2 chemistry test more difficult than barrona's practices or PR practices.
Thanks.</p>
<p>eh.. Which book would be best if you havent taken AP chem yet..?</p>
<p>Everyone seems to love Princeton Review/Barrons</p>
<p>but for some reason, i'm quite satisfied with my Kaplan.. and i'm sure i got a 5 on my ap chem exam with it.</p>
<p>Yeah that was my prob. I didn't really take it seriously and hadn't taken chem in over a year. I got the Barron book and I barely used it and I got a 670. (Most of you here would shudder at that score but I was proud)</p>
<p>Not respectable but not bad considering I never took AP chem, hadn't had any education in chem for a year (and that education was mediocre at best, I never even learned what an ICE table was), and never really studied for it until the night before b/c I didn't take the SAT II seriously. (Are they that serious? I had no idea.)</p>
<p>Then again I am majoring in chem so maybe I remembered more than I thought I would. Good luck on it. I thought it was ridiculous but I thought the Math IIC was worse. Oddly enough I scored higher on that. The only one I enjoyed taking was the Writing one.</p>
<p>i'd say that there are, just like AP chem, random MC questions (i.e. fertilizer and ozone) that you just need to know - which you might, if you are a chem person. I'd highly recommend barron's, because it covers that random material, and its harder than the actual test, but...its your choice. :)</p>
<p>Does anyone know how big the curve is, how many questions can you get wrong and still get an 800?</p>
<p>I made 4 errors and got 800 in November 2004, don't know recently.</p>