Cracking the SAT II: Biology E/M, 2001-2002 Edition

By Judene Wright and Pri

The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT II: Biology E/M exam is very different from getting straight As in school. They don't try to teach students everything there is to know about... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375761810
• ISBN13: 9780375761812
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Princeton Review
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Great, but lacking

Well I've taken the test and I did fairly well, a 740, decent, but not great. However I managed to go through about 3/4 of this book and finished the rest later just for the heck of it. So here's essentially the basis of this book. First the sections give you generally accurate information and provide you with practice sets and questions after each section. However, though most sections cover 80-100 percent of the needed SAT II information there are some key lacking points. Firs the ear and eyes are not covered. And let me tell you this: THERE IS ALMOST ALWAYS A QUESTION ON THEM! Yes two tests in a row there have been questions on the eyes and ears, hm... Also genetics is a bit brief, while evolution is simply great. Also let me note that the SAT II had fewer molecular questions in general in the regular exam part, then analysis and organism biology. So using this with the Kaplan book, and studying will likely get you at least a 750-800 depending on study time.

THIS BOOK IS GREAT

This book really really prepares you to take the SAT II Biology testI missed the SAT II test once so I had to take it after the summer vacation ended...I didn't study for the SAT II Bio until the day before the test and benefited a lot from this bookAnd I still got a really good grade in 2 hours of studying Biology before the testThe back sample SAT II Bio test is really great...I think it's almost like the real SAT II!!

This book was excellent

Most other SAT II Bio books such as the Kaplans and Peterson are to in-depth and try to cram too much knowledge into your head. This book goes over exactly what you need to know, and presents the information in a very practical way.The great thing is that the two practice tests are almost identical to the real SAT's. If you MUST get one book, this is the one. If you would like two, then I recommend this and the Kaplan.BTW I got an 800 with this and the Kaplan combinedP.S. The Peterson's is completely off track and gives so much extraneous information that it's practically better to buy a textbook than use that. The Kaplan is lengthy and deep but provide you with some of the small tid-bits of knowledge that MIGHT be on the test.

Great Book Overall

This is a great book even for those taking the Advance Placement Course. I myself am taking AP Biology and this is a great, consise review book. Although it does not go into great detail, which these books are not able to anyway, it has a good source of review questions for both the SAT II and AP.

I am impressed

I used last year's version of this review book to take the SAT II Biology E exam, I was only a sophmore then. I had already taken one half of my first Biology course, but by using this review book, I scored a 770. All it took was a quick read-through, the practice exam questions were very good, and very similer to the actual test, in fact there were some that almost exactly the same, I amthrilled with the results I got from this book which basically repalced a Bilogy teacher, and very sucessfully, I might add.