<p>Hello everyone! I'm an international student from Poland. I'm sixteen now, so I've got about 2.5 years ahead of me before going to US to study (just if I'm admitted, of course). I've been getting information about studies in the United States for a long time but many things are still not clear to me. One of them are the SAT Subject Tests. After college I'd like to study law, psychology or sociology. My question is: what subject tests do I have to take? I'm interested in taking the world history and literature as I'm interested in humanities. Is this good choice?</p>
<p>You only have to take subject tests depending on which colleges you apply to. If you’re interested in the humanities and think you would do well on World History and Literature, then those are good choices.</p>
<p>Thank you for the reply! That’s not the end of my questions, I’ve got a lot of them. If literature, then what’s the best way of preparing to it? I know that the literature test is based on interpretating texts, so I’ve started from Macbeth. I read it in Polish, now I’m about to finish it in English and then I’m going to read it a few times with the appendix, the dictionary and maybe the help of my English teacher. I also know that the test is rather based on literary texts written before 1900. Then, what novels and poems should I choose to be at least 50% sure I’m well prepared?</p>
<p>Literature doesn’t actually test you on specific pieces of literature; there won’t be questions on Macbeth or Ulysses or Paradise Lost. They give you short stories, poems, and short plays and ask you to read them and interpret them; there will be a series of multiple choice questions about them. I suggest that you order a prep book (I used the Princeton Review prep book for SAT Literature) to take practice tests and learn what you need to.</p>
<p>I myself am an international student and recently did the SAT II Lit test on my own, with only test prep books to help. I scored a 740, not too bad.</p>
<p>I suggest doing as many practice tests as possible to familiarize yourself with the kind of thinking required of you. The Kaplan test prep book is also very helpful. </p>
<p>If you need any more information, do not hesitate to PM me :)</p>