Hi, I’m a junior in highschool and a few of the colleges I’m looking at recommend taking the physics subject test. I haven’t taken a physics course before but I am completing Calc 3 right now at JC (I mention this because my prof likes physics and from calc 2-3 we did a lot of Center of Mass, Work, Flux etc. related problems.). I’m going to take physics with Calc in the fall but I won’t have completed the course by the time the tests come around. Is this test possible to self-study and if so, what resources would you all recommend to me? I have all summer to prepare.
It would be very difficult to take the SAT Physics Subject Test without ever having taken a physics course. You don’t need calculus-based physics (e.g. AP Physics C), but you do need to have exposed to physics before. The material on the exam is not very deep or mathematical, but covers a large number of topics. You need to know the major ideas to do well on the exam.