<p>reviewing some material on a college my son is interested in. and have a question
their material says anyone who intends to take pre-calc, applied cal or calc I must qualify for admission based on sat II math scores. if you dont have them before admission they will administer them at orientation... BUT they say they will administer a satII IC or a satIIC and you must score 710 on the sat II ic or 630 on the IIC. on the college board site there is no IC test... is IC the same as Math I or Math II . if so does that mean you must get 710 on math I or 630 on Math II? or 630 on MathI and 730 on Math II? which seems backwards as math II is supposed to be harder???
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<p>Math IC = Math 1
Math IIC = Math 2
Name was changed in 2003 or around that year. This means that you need to get a 710 on Math 1 or a 630 on Math 2. Getting a 710 on Math 1 is like 4 or 5 wrong, whereas getting 4 or 5 wrong on Math 2 will still get you an 800; a 710 on Math 2 is like 12 wrong perhaps. It would be to your son’s advantage to take Math 2, even if he isn’t a stellar math student.</p>
<p>thanks so much entellied. that makes sense now. i have been telling my son to take math II based on all i have read here and the math courses he has taken, but his gc tells everyone to take math I. he thinks his gc would obviously know more than me. hopeing i can convince him. maybe this info will help, his other thought was to sign up for both, dont know if that is good idea or not… would mean on the 6th that he takes mathI mathII and chemistry.</p>
<p>Don’t sign up for both; there is a pretty good chance your son will do better on Math 2 than on Math 1. There is no room for any error on Math 1 because it is so easy. Most students who take it usually get something wrong; 1 or 2 wrong will mean at most 780. </p>
<p>Math 2 has some extra topics: matrices, polar graphs, parametric equations, logarithms, and some other basic pre-calc stuff. The matrices, polar graphs, and parametric equations can all be done on the calculator. Barron’s SAT Math 2 Subject Test covers those topics quite well, and it teaches you how to use a graphing calculator for different types of problems.</p>