<p>I've been working through the Barron's Math IIC prep book.</p>
<p>I took a practice test from the collegeboard book and got around a 770.</p>
<p>But I'm finding the Barron's to be MUCH harder. Is this normal? And does it signify that I'm not going to do well?</p>
<p>that's perfectly normal. people usually do much higher on the real thing than what they did with barron's because it overprepares you.</p>
<p>bump......</p>
<p>Wow, its amazing how many threads there are on barron's math iic...</p>
<p>Yeah, its harder, but good prep. I'm using it for the june test.</p>
<p>By the way, how do you get "around a 770".</p>
<p>Barron's is the devil. I'm preping using that book for the June 4th exam. I just don't understand why the author felt the need to go soooo off base and test us at an uneccisarily high level. I think i'm gonna stick with sparknotes when i prep for chem (assuming sparknotes has a book for chem)</p>
<p>I don't mind going through a book that's very hard. It makes you learn more and makes the real test a breeze.</p>
<p>However, its not just that Barron's is harder - the problem is that some of the material in that book is NOT EVEN ON the real test! Now that's just annoying. Some of the Barron's practice tests have a disproportianetly high number of questions about x,y,z-plane geometry and sequences/series. I don't have a problem with harder, but when the material for studying isn't even on the test, that is a problem.</p>
<p>what would be an accurate representation of the real test then? sparknotes?</p>
<p>I feel the best solution to this problem would be for someone who knows alot about the SAT2 and barrons book to tell us which of those topics that are covered in Barrons do not and will not appear on the actual test, taht way we can prepare using barrons but skip over things that wont be on there. Any takers?</p>
<p>Out of all the SAT math prep I saw, nothing covered CIS, which barrons did.</p>
<p>jksbond007: look at CB's site or Kaplan's book. They have the curriculum of the IIc. Also, if you look at a Kaplan or CB practice test, you can get a good idea of the curriculum. The questions are usually quite similar for each topic between tests. For example, there's always one limits question and you always do the same thing to solve it: factor numerator and denominator, cancel common factor, plug in.</p>
<p>I've never looked at a Barron's book so I can't really tell you what they do beyond the IIc curriculum, but I can tell you Kaplan doesn't. But of course CB is the most reliable source, since they make the test.</p>
<p>The best place to find out how in-depth the questions go in each topic is probably the sparknotes website for Math IIC. For example, the Barron's book goes into pretty great detail with its questions on geometry in the x,y,z plane. However, on Sparknotes they state that the only questions on this topic that usually appear on the test simply ask about the distance between two points in 3D space.</p>
<p>Most topics in the Barron's book are on the test, it just seems that with some of them it goes into more detail than necessary.</p>
<p>haha, I took a test in barrons and I got a 23/50, then I did the questions in the College Board SAT 2 packet, and I got 13/16, which, while it's isn't stellar, is a definite indication of Barrons' difficulty.</p>
<p>"nothing covered CIS,"</p>
<p>What is CIS?</p>
<p>cis notation is a shorthand for writing complex numbers in polar form.</p>
<p>The expanded form is r<em>(cosx + i</em>sinx) or rcisx</p>
<p>how is princeton review??</p>
<p>I'm using Barron's SAT II math IIC as well. Its definately a lot harder than than the other prep books. Sparknotes is good and my friend used Princeton review and he says its good too.</p>
<p>jesus christ if i see another barrons 2c thread im gonna go crazy</p>
<p>Is it safe to say that a 35/50 on Barron's gives you a fair shot at 800 on the actual math level 2 test?</p>
<p>........so cis ISNT on the exam?</p>
<p>bump...
im interested too- is CIS on the exam and what raw score in barrons is a safe raw score for say like 700, 750, 800?</p>