Arcadia Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 (edited) My quirky kid managed to ace the subject test last month a year after your class and no formal physics this year just by using the Barron's test prep book :lol: Your class and a test prep book is apparently a good combination. So you can tell your students it is possible to take the subject test after your class if they don't mind the torture of doing 75 multiple choice questions in an hour. I could not find many threads on your class so I decided to post. You might need to open more slots :) ETA: Prep books we borrowed and used: ColllegeBoard book for how easy/hard the real questions are https://www.amazon.com/Official-Subject-Physics-Study-College/dp/1457309211 Barron's SAT Subject Test: Physics, 2nd Edition for actual timed test prep https://www.amazon.com/Barrons-SAT-Subject-Test-Physics/dp/1438007892/ Edited July 12, 2017 by Arcadia in CA 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyforlatin Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Good for him! Maybe we can give it a try this year. But your DS does additional reading in physics for fun, right? Or is that another poster.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 He does but not in any of the topics tested. The subject test is heavy on concepts and very light on math. No calculators allowed. The grading curve is also forgiving, you can have a few wrong answers and still get a perfect score. You can see the actual grading curve in the CollegeBoard prep book. https://www.amazon.com/Official-Subject-Physics-Study-College/dp/1457309211 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningGlory Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 My quirky kid managed to ace the subject test last month a year after your class and no formal physics this year just by using the Barron's test prep book :lol: Your class and a test prep book is apparently a good combination. So you can tell your students it is possible to take the subject test after your class if they don't mind the torture of doing 75 multiple choice questions in an hour. I could not find many threads on your class so I decided to post. You might need to open more slots :) ETA: Prep books we borrowed and used: ColllegeBoard book for how easy/hard the real questions are https://www.amazon.com/Official-Subject-Physics-Study-College/dp/1457309211 Barron's SAT Subject Test: Physics, 2nd Edition for actual timed test prep https://www.amazon.com/Barrons-SAT-Subject-Test-Physics/dp/1438007892/ This is so awesome!!! I'm just now seeing it, Arcadia...sorry that I haven't responded. I was looking for another post and stumbled across it. Congratulations to your delightful son! Tell him that I *STILL* do not type on the whiteboard and watch him shake his head in dismay. lol! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 Tell him that I *STILL* do not type on the whiteboard and watch him shake his head in dismay. lol! :lol: he still has some perfectionist tendencies. He is just pampered by AoPS online class using Latex and Asymptote so everything looks perfect. He had one to five wrongs per test when doing the Barron's test prep book. I used a five color highlighter to color code the questions for ease of seeing which was his weakest topics. The five main topics were (percentage is Approximate % of Test https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat-subject-tests/subjects/science/physics): Mechanics 36%-42% Electricity and Magnetism 18%–24% Waves and Optics 15%–19% Heat and Thermodynamics 6%–11% Modern Physics 6%–11% There is also Miscellaneous which takes up 4%–9% He did the physics with the math 2 subject test. He wanted a baseline for his chances at engineering school. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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