Are my practice test scores good enough?

Question

Ok, I'm a sophmore and the chem sat subject test is tomorrow. I've taken 3 old official tests from previous years in my Honors chem class at school for practice; I usually got in the 710-730 range. Our teacher tells us that our class is high-level in the national scheme of things. He's a college professor as well and he's prepared us well in my opinion. I have also been studying from the Barrons study book. I got a 750 on the diagnostic test, a 730 on the first practice test, a 770 on the second practice test, and I am really disappointed with my 670 on the third practice test. I find that barrons often has questions with decimal multiplications which sometimes take too long to solve. Sometimes I struggle with some of the lab setup questions that have a diagram of an experiment. I may do the fourth practice test in Barrons because I don't want to finish disappointed with the 670. From all of this, do I have a chance at doing good (700+) on the Chem SAT subject test tomorrow? Thanks.

Answer 1

Your doing great, dont stress yourself out. I have learned that the night before the test is best for just relaxing and going over certain problems. Be calm and make sure you get a good nights rest! Good Luck and I hope you pass your exam

Answer 2

good luck

Answer 3

Barrons is ALWAYS harder than the actual test in every subject. They often have much more difficult questions and a greater number of them at that. I took my SAT IIs right before AP Exams, so I wasn't all that into studying for them, and when I took a Barrons for the Literature test the night before, I got somewhere in the low 600s because the passages were much harder to analyze and the questions required a lot of thought. On test day, I went in, took it, found the actual to be much easier than the Barrons, and got a 720. Its not a perfect score, but for putting practically no time into it, I wasnt upset. If you're scoring decently in Barrons, I'd be pretty confident for the real thing. Don't worry. With those scores, you'll do fine tomorrow.

Word of advice though, don't ever brag about practice scores. Not that you were doing that here, although you did do very well on some of them, and its incredibly embarrasing if you dont get those same scores on the real thing. A girl I know told me for weeks how she got nearly perfect scores on all of the practice tests she took, was a self-proclaimed literary "master," and reminded me every day of how much I hadn't been studying for the SAT IIs. Come the end of May, she got her scores back and she was actually 30 points lower than me! It had to be karma.