<p>I've devoted all my time to US in the past week. What are some must-know things for the SATII in Literature?</p>
<p>Not that this really helps, but I’m in the same position. I’ve spent all week doing Latin and am going to have to take Lit pretty much cold. so, yes. I need help too.</p>
<p>You might want to review literary terms, but I took lit cold and found it to be a breeze.</p>
<p>Haha…same! Except that I don’t even have the excuse of another SAT II to study for. </p>
<p>How different is it from the CR, does anyone know?</p>
<p>its more poetry, an occassional play, more in-depth analysis… if i were you…</p>
<p>know major (mostly self-explanatory) lit terms/structures/random stuff like…:</p>
<p>antithesis, metaphor, synedoche, metonymy, 3 types of irony (verbal, situational, dramatic), allusion, apostrophe, rhetorical question, simile, personification, differences between blank verse/free verse, hyperbole, symbolism, paradox, juxtaposition, repetition, parallelism, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, meter, rhyme scheme, heroic couplets & couplets, ode, elegy, ballad, sonnet, different types of poetry modes (ie: lyric, narrative, discursive, imagistic)… and what all the points of view are (first person (major character), first person (minor character), third person (observer, omniscient, and limited omniscient)</p>
<p>Also know the difference between voice, tone, mood</p>
<p>if you know the definition/structure of all of those i think that you’ll be just fine.</p>
<p>I’m taking it tomorrow, too, and I haven’t prepared much. I feel sort of guilty about that, but if you think about it, the lit subject test isn’t one that you can prepare very much for. Most of just depends on your ability to analyze literature. I recommend that you at least take a practice test or two today, though. : )</p>
<p>yeah i’m in the same postition as you, I’ve been studying for US for the past few days & i feel prepared for that.
I just took a practice Princeton Review Lit Exam though and I got a 620. ■■■
I really hope i raise that at least 100 pts for the actual test</p>
<p>Kaplan= so far been awesome studying for me.</p>
<p>my practice scores have gone from 710 to 680 to 690 to 750 from studying from it.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Barrons is supposed to be much harder, is this true? I just did a Barrons pratice test and got 680…how would this correspond to CB?</p>
<p>i heard that Barrons is like -70 to 80pts from the actual thing cuz its so much harder</p>
<p>barrons i got 600… cb i got 740 on a practice test… i regret buying barrons</p>
<p>OMG, that was hard! i felt very pressured for time : (. i really didn’t like that test because for so many of the questions there were a few answers that could’ve worked, and i hate that the CB forces everyone to have the same, narrow interpretation of literature. so anyway…yeah. if i get below a 700 i think i just won’t send it. better to stick to things i’m good at…so i’m taking math in the fall :). my college counselor said that she advises everyone against taking math because it’s supposedly really hard, but i’ve looked at sparknotes practice tests and it doesn’t look too bad, and i’m better at math than lit, so i think i’ll give it a shot.</p>
<p>when do we get our scores? are they posted online, like the ACT? or only mailed?</p>
<p>I agree it was tough. I didn’t have problems with time, and I didn’t omit any, but it was just like the practice tests with multiple answers - I could get 10 in a row right then miss 4 straight, so I dunno</p>