端木·宇 2008-6-19 20:39
Strategies for Taking SAT II Physics
A machine, not a person, will scoreyour SAT II Physics Test. The tabulating machine sees only thefilled-in ovals on your answer sheet, and doesn't care how you came tothese answers; it just impassively notes if your answers are correct. Alucky guess counts in your favor just as much as an answer you giveconfidently. By the same token, if you accidentally fill in [b]B[/b] where you meant [b]C[/b],you won't get any credit for having known what the answer was. Think ofthe multiple-choice test as a message to you from ETS: “We care onlyabout your answers. We do not care about the work behind thoseanswers.”
So you should give ETS as many right answersas possible. The SAT II Physics Test not only allows you to show offyour knowledge of physics, it allows you to show off your foxlikecunning by figuring out what strategies will enable you to best displaythat knowledge. This chapter will first cover some general principlesof test taking that apply equally to this test and any other SAT testyou might take, then it will discuss a few strategies that areparticularly useful to SAT II Physics.
