There are two English AP exams: AP English Language and Composition and AP English Literature and Composition. The Literature Subject Test takes some of the core close-reading skills necessary for success on the SAT and ACT (such as identifying main ideas, interpreting tone, and considering structure) and both sets these skills within the more specific context of literature and extends them by incorporating literary terms like speaker, audience, and narrative point of view. These are all close-reading skills that students likely have been practicing throughout high school English classes.īoth the SAT and ACT have sections devoted to reading comprehension only the ACT, however, includes a fiction or narrative prose passage, and neither includes poetry or drama.
Understanding speaker, audience, occasion, and purpose within the context of poetry. Identifying narrative voice, tone, and point of view within the context of a narrative passage. how diction, imagery, and figurative language affect the reader) Interpreting the writer’s use of language (i.e. Understanding words in context, especially connotations of specific words. The questions will focus on the following topics and skills: Questions cover topics ranging from literary terminology to meaning.Ħ to 8 passages and approximately 60 questions in 60 minutes.Įach Passage has 3 attributes: source, time period, and genre.Īs a result, you may get a passage that is an eighteenth-century British poem (some Alexander Pope, perhaps) or you may get a passage excerpted from a 20th century American drama. Like other familiar reading comprehension tests, the Literature Subject Test provides students with several passages and sets of questions about those passages. The Literature Subject Test does not align with a particular English class instead, it draws on skills taught across years of English classes. Always practice with the calculator that you will be using on test day. In order to focus your review, you should plan to use test preparation materials or work with a tutor to focus on the most important topics (skimming through several years of math textbooks would be frustrating and, likely, unhelpful).Įffective use of a graphing calculator will increase your speed. The most important preparation is reviewing topics that you may no longer be using-it may have been 3 years since you’ve been asked to multiply matrices. If you have taken or are about to take AP Calculus AB or BC and have been doing well in those math classes, the chances are that you have learned the requisite material. The math topics tested by the AP Calculus AB test, however, extend well beyond the pre-calculus that appears on the Math Level 2 Subject Test. The Math 2 has a guessing penalty and five answer choices, so you may need to adjust your strategy versus the SAT and ACT.Įvery school’s AP curriculum is different but increasingly, students are taking AP Calculus AB as a combination of pre-calculus and introductory calculus. While there is a greater focus on geometry on the ACT than the SAT, like the SAT, the ACT does not include topics commonly taught in pre-calculus. The topics found on Math 2 have a good deal of overlap with those on the new SAT and the ACT, but the content actually being tested and the difficulty of the problems is very different. On the other hand, it will do a much deeper dive with concepts like equations and functions. Note that with only 50 questions, Math Level 2 is giving you 4–6 data analysis, statistics, and probability questions, which means the exam is most likely going to test the greatest hits. 
Topics tested range from counting to recursive functions, but the greatest emphasis is placed on algebra and functions, with geometry and trigonometry coming in closely behind. Pacing is a challenge you can leave questions blank on the Math 2 and still achieve an 800, so avoid (or come back to) problems you think will be time consuming. Math 2 is twice as popular as any other subject test and is particularly important for students applying to STEM programs.Īlthough many of the easiest questions are found on the first third of the test while many of the hardest questions are found on the last third of the test, difficulty does not increase linearly.
Frequently, students will sit for the Math Level 2 exam at the end of the term in which they’ve taken pre-calculus for many students this is junior year, but for some accelerated students, this may be sophomore year. Math Level 2 tests the topics taught in geometry, two years of algebra (with some trigonometry), and pre-calculus.
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