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Which SAT II tests should I take!?

Classes I'm taking next year:

IB HL English 1

IB HL Visual Arts 1

IB HL Biology 1

IB SL Mathematical Methods

IB SL French

Physics 2....

What SAT II's do you think I should take next year? I'm only a sophomore and was recommended to take the Math level 1 in a few weeks but I'm not sure if I should... I also want to take the biology one but I hear its NOTHING like ib bio :( :( what do you guys think ?

Update:

Yeah, I'm not sure about taking math level 1 this year... A lot of kids have already taken it in my class and did really well on it but I only have a B+ average in that class this year and I just dont have to time to actually study for it lol. (I'm in Advanced Integrated Math 3 if that helps, which I'm pretty sure is a rough equivalent to Precalc-)

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  • 9 years ago
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    It's tough because you're in IB, and SAT Subject Tests really tend to favor AP students since the tests are made by the same company and thus the questions on the AP are similar to the subject test and vice versa. Needless to say, you should try and take subject tests when you've reached the highest level that you're going to get to in that particular category EXCEPT with Math and English. As I stated above, subject tests tend to correlate to AP's, so if you haven't take an advanced English Language or English Literature course, I'd caution you against taking either one for a subject test. With Math, taking it when you've just completed trigonometry is actually the ideal time because that's the most advanced material on the test, and if you continue on to calculus and what not, you're going to start forgetting more and more of the basic algebra, geometry, and other basic concepts that you learned years ago, making it more of a hassle to have to restudy all of this and more likely that you'll make basic mistakes simply because you haven't had to do the work in a while.

    The thing about Math I versus Math II is not that one gets you less credit at some colleges, but that Math I is not always accepted as a subject test when used to fulfill a requirement for subject tests are some colleges / universities, so Math II is the safer blanket test so that regardless of where you apply, you know for certain that it'll be valid for submission in the admission process. Math II is a lot harder, but the curve is also a lot stronger (13% of students get 800, a rate higher than everything except foreign languages, which can be explained by merit of native speakers).

    Source(s): Math II (770), Bio-M (750)
  • GLaDOS
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    I actually don't recommend taking SAT II's until Junior year. By then you'll be smarter and probably perform better. Also, you should take math 2, not math 1, because math 1 is really really easy and therefore doesn't get you as much credit with colleges.

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