<p>i am using a barron's book to study for the sat.
recently i did a bunch of practice math problems and did quite badly, found them to be hard.
is barron's accurate for the difficulty of the actual sat? i recently took the PSAT and did well on the math, but these barron's problems are much harder.</p>
<p>barrons prep books are usually not accurate. They are usually harder than the actual test, which is a good thing and a bad thing. Their SAT math problems are, in particular, very difficult (but very good preparation). That's why you did so badly.</p>
<p>However, once you finish using that hefty barrons book, then you should breeze through the actual test.</p>
<p>I've never used Barrons for the SATs, but in terms of APs and SAT IIs, I've always found Barrons to be much harder than the actual tests themselves.</p>
<p>barron's SATII us history was the only one i looked at, and ended up not using. It was so bad... they had types of questions that never showed up on the actual test. ( I got other prep tests from my SAT teacher and realized the difference.) althoug i did use barron's summaries for AP US test</p>
<p>Barron's SAT II math IIC is harder than the actual test, but it's good for you.</p>
<p>Barron's New SAT book does not even have the correct number of sections, whereas both Princeton Review and the CollegeBoard (obviously) do.</p>
<p>They are in depth for the verbal section, especially with the reading passages, which PR is not. I do use PR for math becaus etheir techniques are quick and simple</p>
<p>gloaming: are you going to take the SAT this year?</p>