SAT DOMINATOR
for the SAT-II
Most competitive colleges and universities require three SAT-II Subject Test scores. In recent years, the admissions policies at many leading universities have been changed to increase the importance of the Subject tests.
Your suitability as an admission candidate to these top colleges will be greatly determined by your performance on three, one-hour tests.
DOMINATOR can help you get the competitive scores that will get you or your child accepted into a top College or University!
Which tests to take
Most colleges and universities require SAT-II Subject Test scores for Math, Writing, and a third Subject of your choice. The Math and Writing Tests are supposed to reflect your performance on an assortment of classwork from high school math and English classes. The third subject may be selected from the sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics), languages (Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Latin, and Hebrew), History (American and World), and English LiteratureThe third subject choice does not matter unless specified by the college. Take whichever subject you find easiest! See "Score Choice" below for a discussion of how to figure out what to take for the third test.
Math Levels I and II
Many of the principles of strategy for the Math Subject test are the same as for the SAT-I Reasoning Test, including order of difficulty and trap answers (see SAT Dominator Chapter One, available for free here ).
The math itself includes all the basics from the SAT-I, then goes slightly more in-depth, depending upon which test "Level" is taken. Level I is taken by most people, and covers subject matter from arithmetic through basic trigonometry. Level II, which covers subject matter through first-year calculus, is much harder. It is required only by schools like MIT and Cal Tech, and some scientific, engineering, and mathematics departments of other schools.
Unless the school requires that you have to take Level II, take the easier Level I test! If the school does not require Level II, they will not care which level you take, only about the score you receive. Most people not currently enrolled in Calculus, and even some who are, will get a better score from Level I.
Writing
The Writing Test is split between a twenty minute, two-page essay, and 58 multiple choice grammar questions. The essay is graded "wholistically" in under two minutes by separate graders, who consider the construction of the essay first, then weigh the content. While there is limitless variety in the topic for the essay, there are no right or wrong answers.
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Score Choice
The third Subject test can be anything you do particularly well in. The best way to find out is to take the tests and see which you do the best on. You can get practice exams from the College Board publication Official Guide to the SAT-II, available at www.collegeboard.org
Additionally, the College Board offers a service called "Score Choice" that lets a student take the SAT-II tests repeatedly, and allows the student to choose which scores get reported to the colleges. This can be used to your advantage, to present the best possible picture to the colleges.
Simply put, take the relevant subject tests at the same time as when you take the final exams in school!
For example, when you are studying for your Biology and Latin finals, take those exams. When you are studying for your Physics and World History finals, take those subject tests. Then when it is time to send the scores to the colleges, choose the best ones. Take the Writing and Math tests repeatedly, and go with your best scores overall.
This little trick will put you head and shoulders above the majority of testers, who wait until the last minute and have forgotten most of the subject by the time they take the test months later!
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