<p>Anyone have any experience with this? I need to know where I'm at.</p>
<p>anyone? 10char</p>
<p>I've heard that they are much more difficult than the real thing, so you can probably expect a slightly higher score.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks. anyone else?</p>
<p>i just took a practice and got 45 raw. my book didn't convert it for me, but someone said that according to cb, it's a 700. i think real one might be easier.</p>
<p>The actual SAT II was much easier than the Barrons prep, but the questions in Barrons are great for acclimating you to the general feel and content of the test.</p>
<p>^thanks. Is the real thing as subjective as barrons? Does it have a lot of lit vocab?</p>
<p>The CB book test I took did test nearly as much technical stuff as Barrons does.</p>
<p>Also, there is no "subjective" in the test. You can't make up your own interpretations...just like the CR on the SATI. Use exactly what's provided in the test and no more.</p>
<p>Mmm I took a Barron's test just for fun the night before my real test. I think I got in the 600s or something. Definitely low 700s or lower. (I don't remember if my book had a conversion chart or if I found one online.) I wasn't worried because I could tell how ambiguous the questions were, and although Lit is inherently subjective to an extent, I knew that CB would be better at coming up with questions with clear-cut answers. Got 780 on the real thing; thought it was pretty easy. </p>
<p>As for vocab -- yeah, you have to know some stuff, but nothing super-obscure. If you've taken the English Language or English Literature AP test, you're in really good shape for vocab.</p>
<p>Can anyone give any exaples of vocab which might be on the test?</p>
<p>Simile, metaphor, apostrophe, alliteration, personification are the big ones.</p>
<p>now that i've taken the CB test, I conclude that Barron's is horrible.</p>
<p>Barrons...too much knowledge.</p>
<p>Tests may help you develop analytic skills though, if you don't already have them.</p>
<p>my english teacher looked at the barron's and she really liked it. ditto for chem when i showed it to my chem teacher.</p>
<p>Barron's was great to build up my reading skills but terrible practice tests. </p>
<p>Kaplan was much better, although nothing compares with the ridiculous wording of the CB!!! LOL</p>