<p>Hi Everyone!</p>
<p>Since most of you are probably finished or almost finished with your testing as juniors and seniors, would you mind helping out a rising junior? </p>
<p>When do you guys recommend taking the SAT I and SAT II's? I know each month, the tests are supposed to be the same difficulty but most times they aren't, so with your experience, which months are the "easiest" months for the SAT I and the SAT II in Biology, Chemistry, and Math IIC? </p>
<p>Sorry for the stupidity of this question. </p>
<p>Thank you all in advance!</p>
<p>Whether or not the difficulty of the individual tests change, it’s nearly impossible to “game the system” by picking a month. Here: <a href=“http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf[/url]”>http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf</a></p>
<p>That shows you quite a bit of curve data. If you can draw something from it, so be it, but the popular consensus is that it’s impossible to predict when the curve is easier or harder. Take it as soon as you’re ready and don’t worry about the curve.</p>
<p>the tests are the easiest when your knowledge of the material is the best</p>
<p>otherwise, it’s just luck of the draw.</p>
<p>The Subject Tests will be the easiest when you have prepared for them the most. The College Board makes sure that all of the tests are fair and equal to one another. Although many may claim that one month is easier than another, it is unfounded speculation. If people tend to do better in June, it is because they are more well prepared; all of the tests will have equal difficulty.</p>
<p>There is zero advantage to taking it at a specific time because it’s purportedly easiest. If the test is harder then the curve will be easier and if the test is easier then the curve will be harder. It all balances out.</p>
<p>phosphorylation: “the tests are the easiest when your knowledge of the material is the best”. LOL, gold. </p>
<p>No test date is necessarily “easier” than another. I took the SAT/SAT II’s in March, May, and June of this year and they all seemed pretty equal in difficulty…</p>
<p>Like Harrovian said, easier test, harsher curve. Harder test, more generous curve. It’ll balance out.</p>
<p>Easiest test would have the toughest curve. I would rather take the most difficult test that any careless mistake may be better tolerated in a generous curve.</p>
<p>Based on these curves <a href=“http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf[/url]”>http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf</a> I would day that you should take the test in may. May doesnt have a single test with a really bad curve. Whether this is due to the difficulty of the test or the amount of procrastinators taking the test in may that help the curve, may seems like the best month to take it. Im not really sure if this is how it is but it makes the most sense to me. Good luck!</p>
<p>The College Board uses an equating procedure to normalize the SAT for a given date to previous administrations of the test. Since the score scaling ostensibly reflects the difficulty of the test, it shouldn’t matter when you take it.</p>
<p>That being said, the score scaling for certain test dates may be more favorable, for example, for high scorers in Math. A strong math student who misses one or two questions (independent of how difficult the test is overall) would be well served to take the test several times. Losing focus for only two math problems on a certain test can drop a student from 800 to 740.</p>
<p>No one knows what the score scaling will be in advance. Rather than trying to game the system, I’d recommend taking the test when you are most prepared for it…and taking the test multiple times. You’ll get the benefit of superscoring and possibly the advantage of a “more favorable” scaling.</p>
<p>Hope this helps…</p>
<p>There is no easiest test date.
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