Lilaclady Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 For those whose students had taken the physics SAT exam- will doing just the mechanics part of AP physics C prepare a student well for taking the SAT2? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanM Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 There is a lot of non-mechanics stuff on the test. Actually there are topics that aren't covered in AP physics C even if you take both parts. This link has a list of topics on the subject test: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat-subject-tests/subjects/science/physics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowbeltmom Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 For those whose students had taken the physics SAT exam- will doing just the mechanics part of AP physics C prepare a student well for taking the SAT2? Thanks No. AP Physics C Mechanics will not prepare the student for the Physics SAT II as there are also electricity and magnetism concepts tested as well. Fwiw, the free Sparknotes online program and Barrons were great prep in my house. Also, no formulas are given on the SAT II and a calculator is not permitted. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 No, as pp already said, mechanics alone is not sufficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilaclady Posted February 27, 2016 Author Share Posted February 27, 2016 Thanks all. That is quite helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy in Richmond Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 My daughter took both Physics C mechanics and E&M courses, and she still had to do some extra prep before the SAT 2 exam. She used selected chapters from Giancoli's algebra based text, Barron's review guide, & the released exam in the official CB SAT 2 book. The extra topics she studied included waves, optics, modern physics/relativity, and nuclear physics. The SAT 2 Physics actually correlated quite nicely with the old AP Physics B class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilaclady Posted February 27, 2016 Author Share Posted February 27, 2016 Thanks again. The changes are making it a bit hard to schedule. I will have a young student taking the ap physics C concurrently with Aops calculus so I am trying to see if we can also get the SAT2 out of the way. I guess we will have to leave it till she is done with E&M. Then do the prep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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