<p>what's the best math II preparation book?
by best i mean it has the best strategies, and most importantly--> accurate level/type of questions compared to the real exam.</p>
<p>I want to buy one to study over the summer, any suggestions?
thanks</p>
<p>Barron's - Study it well. It is difficult and overprepares you but if you are able to get do score even a low 700 in it, you will probably get an 800 on the actual test.</p>
<p>RUSH does a much better job of overpreparing, in my opinion.</p>
<p>You should buy three and thats RUSH, Barrons, PR
PR- practice test is relistic to CB + you can find shortcuts
Barrons- overprepare and thats good + diagonistic test where you can find your strngths/ weaknesses
RUSH- 15 math II exams, you cant complain =D + overprepare, these exams are much harder than PR and Barron(I have heard) raw score 35-38 is a good score for rush </p>
<p>Good Luck</p>
<p>i agree-RUSH. just take practice tests</p>
<p>Barrons + Sparknotes.
Barrons is pretty good. I didn't study much for the test and I thought it was easy but then I took AP Calc so it helped alot with the concepts.</p>
<p>thanks =D kkk</p>
<p>imo barrons is too much...it has a lot more than you'll ever need to know lol, but if you got time and not in a hurry, by all means go for it. It will guarantee you an 800 if you read it thoroughly, but if you could settle for less, then dont go near it lol</p>
<p>Can someone link me to an amazon/half.com page with the specified books?</p>
<p>I hate buying a book and finding out it isn't the right edition and blaming the extra 10 points I would have had if I had gotten the correct edition...</p>
<p>Does RUSH have answers?</p>
<p>I believe the practice exams in the Barrons book adequately prepared me for the exam. However, if you need explanation of topics (as I did for probability, counting problems, etc.), I would recommend another book or read your Algebra II/Precalculus textbook (as I did).</p>
<p>One other point of note: Why the hell does Barrons not include anything about matrices? I assumed the absence of this topic meant that they would not appear on the test and lo and behold, Cramer's Rule appeared on the June Math level II exam!</p>
<p>another response in support of RUSH. All I did was 10 practice tests from RUSH and i'm pretty sure I got 780-800 on the June Test</p>
<p>Barrons- harder than actual, but better than RUSH because RUSH has too many typos</p>
<p>Princeton Review for realistic questions.</p>
<p>Princeton Review and Kaplan have pretty realistic tests. The techniques and content in the PR book was really good. I didn't get to read through Kaplan, but just took the tests and were accurate and not outrageously inaccurate like Barrons.</p>
<p>I'm a decent enough math student, so I knew RUSH and Barrons were going to be overkill. Get PR (most accurate, I've heard, but I didn't buy a specific book) and work through it. Do its practice exams. When you've exhausted those, do sparknotes' 5 free ones. Lastly, do CB's 3 released exams.</p>
<p>we didn't cover everything in our pre-calc. class (like 3-d coordinate geometry), so what book should I get (I don't have access to the text book).</p>
<p>Princeton Review seemed good, though I guess we'll have to wait for the results to know for sure. The only thing I didn't like about it so much was that it encouraged PITA (plugging in the answers) so much and sometimes didn't explain any other ways to solve the problem.</p>
<p>study material from barron's rush or pr but do practice tests from mcgraw hill
they really help and the explanations are amazing
i went from 610 (first practice test) to 800 (sixth practice test)
and i'm pretty sure i got 750+ on the june math2sat2</p>
<p>If you feel that you're already good at math, use Barron's. I chose Barron's just because it was harder and I felt the other books would not help me whatsoever.</p>
<p>ok, so Barron's to learn...and Mcgraw Hil for Practice test (as well as CB's math II book).</p>
<p>Sounds good!</p>