The Official October 2012 Sat Subject Test Physics Thread

<p>All right 5 days to go until SATurday. What are you guys studying/doing to prepare?</p>

<p>I’m reading through Giancoli and going to work through the Kaplan and Princeton Review books. I have mechanics down well, except Kepler’s laws and Universal Gravitation, and I am working on electricity at the moment. Tomorrow, I will finish electricity and do thermo. Then Wednesday I will do waves (I have already done part of it) and work on Atomic and Nuclear. Thursday I will spend any time reviewing topics I didn’t finish and work through review books and take practice tests & Friday will be much of the same.</p>

<p>I’m just reading through my PR and Kaplan books. I’ve already studied everything extensively but I’m worried about certain kinds of EM and Mechanics questions. eek, two more days :frowning: Does anyone know where I can get another OFFICIAL physics subject test? I have the blue CB subject test book but I was wondering if there are any other released exams?</p>

<p>@AnonymousA I think there’s an older edition of the CB subject test book that has a different physics test from the newer edition’s.</p>

<p>got 800 in CB test today with raw score 70. pretty happy and confident now :p</p>

<p>^ there’s a cb practice test? can you link it or something please~~ ? thank youu</p>

<p>yes it was CB practice test. Just returned from exam. it was harder than expected. I omitted 4 questions and got minimum 3 wrong. I’m quite disapointed</p>

<p>Thank god,i thought it was just me :stuck_out_tongue:
Physics was hard,there was this point where i got like 7 C’s or something
Oh well :/</p>

<p>I got 4 C’s in a row. first three are 100 % right. 4th must be wrong.
Hope curve will be generous</p>

<p>Damn it, this test was a hard one! I didn’t expect that. I omitted 6 questions and it took me whole hour to go through all the questions. I am disappointed with the Barron’s Physics, the test was much more demanding than the ones in this book. But still I count on 750+</p>

<p>god, i hate how after the test is over, you think back on some of the problems and realized you got them wrong but it was obvious and ya should have gotten it. =(</p>

<p>I also got a bunch of Cs in a row. Thank god i’m not the only one.</p>

<p>anyone remember any difficult questions? I omitted a large number… :(</p>

<p>DAMN THIS TEST WAS TOUGH.
AND AND AND BARRONS IS SO FREAKING MISLEADING. Their practise tests were like miles away from the real test! And a lot of the stuff in the test hasn’t even been touched upon in Barrons!
The curve better be goooooooood.</p>

<p>What was the work needed to get the Rider up to the bell? I put 250 iirc but that was without taking into account gravity :(</p>

<p>That was really difficult. I ommitted like 6…gahh…</p>

<p>really? was the work not equal to the change in PE? (mgh?)</p>

<p>Yeah, i got 250 (mgh). I omitted quite a few of the E & M questions. Mechanics was easy, thermodynamics was beyond easy, modern wasn’t too bad, but I thought magnetism was killer.</p>

<p>anyone rem the placement of the satellite between earth and moon: 1-to maximize force and 2-i dont rem…</p>

<p>To maximize net force: A
the point where net force is 0: D</p>