SAT Sub­ject Tests were devel­oped by the Col­lege Board to mea­sure the student’s knowl­edge or skills in a cer­tain area such as math, his­tory, phys­i­cal sci­ence, lit­er­a­ture, and for­eign lan­guage.  These tests can be taken at any point in the student’s junior or senior year as long as they have com­pleted the related course work in that sub­ject area.

Many col­leges use the SAT Sub­ject Tests for admis­sion, for course place­ment, and to advise stu­dents about course selec­tion. Some col­leges spec­ify the SAT Sub­ject Tests that they require for admis­sion or place­ment; oth­ers allow appli­cants to choose which tests to take.  If you are presently tak­ing an Advanced Place­ment course in one of the areas listed below, you may want to con­sider tak­ing the Sub­ject Test in that topic in May or June since you are already study­ing for the AP test.

The list of Sub­ject Tests offered include:

• Lit­er­a­ture
• United States History
• World His­tory
• Math Level 1
• Math Level 2
• Biol­ogy M/E
• Chem­istry
• Physics
• French
• French with Listening
• Ger­man
• Ger­man with Listening
• Span­ish
• Span­ish Listening
• Mod­ern Hebrew
• Ital­ian
• Latin
• Chi­nese
• Japan­ese with Listening
• Korean with Listening