<p>ya...I was really surprised ppl weren't saying barron's....</p>
<p>I have lots o' time, Barron's good, right? The edition I ordered is the most recent available, but it's 2003. Is that much of a problem?</p>
<p>No...it's the newest version</p>
<p>I heard that Barron's is hard, but I don't think it's like the UTMOST hardest stuff.</p>
<p>I have one version that is 1997. Hahahhahahaha</p>
<p>Has the syllabus changed much over the years? I think my school may have the 7ths.</p>
<p>Barrons is never good for SAT/SAT-II/ACT stuff. Their tests are nothing like the real ones. They are good if you are reviewing for finals. But the Math 2 is like this: if you are a really good math student, you will still run out of time on the Math 2. You need to have a good strategy as well as know all the math (and 6 questions on the test purposely come from really random topics). The PR book is better at strategy than any of the others. You should practice in the book of REAL SAT IIs, too, of course.</p>
<p>Really? Shouldn't it be better with Barron's since its harder? You will end up being over-prepared and better prepared for the stumblers in the actual exam.</p>
<p>how about Sparknotes?</p>
<p>Is it better to take the IIC exeam right after completing precalc, or can it be taken later, say, after AB calc?</p>
<p>Harder is good for school, but not for tests. You need to be fast and strategic on the Math 2, and the school way of doing it isn't the best on a lot of questions. Also, the test is a survey, not testing really deep math concepts.</p>
<p>AB Calc = too late to do the Math 2. You will have forgotten some trig, functions, geometry, and not all of it is reviewed in a calc class.</p>
<p>take kaplan. i used it.
use barron's only if you have at least 3+ weeks to prepare, because if you're a really sensitive person (like me) it can lower your self-confidence. but it's way harder than the real thing so... you pick.</p>
<p>If I have the whole summer to prepare, should I use Barron ? To tell the truth, in our country there is a limited access to SAT II books and Barron is the only book I fortunately possess.</p>
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<p>I know someone who had plenty of time on the Math Level 2, for an 800. </p>
<p>P.S. To respond to the question asked in the thread, the math student I know (on the math team I coach) used Barron's for ONE practice test, after first doing the Real SAT IIs book practice test a month or so earlier. Other than that, he does lots of AMC[/url</a>] and other math competition program tests and takes science courses that use his math. For a person who really knows precalculus math thoroughly, the Math Level 2 test is not a hard test, and it allows plenty of time. As usual, the [url=<a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php%5DArt">http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php]Art</a> of Problem Solving site features comments by lots of young people who master these tests. They mostly recommend Barron's as a cram book, just to increase the level of difficulty of problems you can handle in limited time. The student on my math team just worked on the team's competition program, mostly, and didn't look at Barron's so much, after finding out Barron's was easy.</p>
<p>Barron's is insanely hard. It's brilliant if you want to study for a school test, but utterly useless for Math IIC. Trust me, you'll end up focusing on the material that almost certainly won't come out on the test. The question content is much harder than on the real SAT, and most people can't even finish a single one of the practice tests on time. I got halfway through the Barron's practice tests and gave up.</p>
<p>I'd recommend Rusen Meylani's stuff, but it's the only material other than Barron's that I've used. It's reportedly much more realistic on the test, however. (I did find some errors, but then I suppose that's inevitable in a book with 15 tests; at least most of the errors are obvious and appear to be misprints.)</p>
<p>How do people decide what advice to take in situations like this?</p>
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<p>are people running out of time onn some of the kaplans section reviews? i didnt expect them to be so hard, even if it is 2C...im really scared right now.</p>
<p>Use Barron's for practice tests and to pinpoint things you aren't solid with; however, don't obsess over topics that seem obscure. If you can, look at a Princeton Review book also... it gives some quick and handy solutions to certain types of problems. People are right in saying that the Math II can be a test of speed more than math ability... the trick is to master types of problems and look for the easiest way to the solution.</p>
<p>yeah.. i signed up to take Math 2C... didn't really start prepping til 1-2 weeks before... completely FREAKED OUT at the questions on the practice tests because not only can I NOT remember formulas, but it was taking me about 1hr 45 min. to finish the test, so I changed to math IC about a week before the test.
Ended up getting a 710 on IC, which was 88%, whereas my friend got 790 on IIC and was only 85%...
mind you, I am/was a math person (perhaps up until this year - precalc,) Yet I still have a mid-high A in the class.</p>
<p>but I plan on taking 2C in october or november... so I can practice the formulas and speed over the summer...</p>
<p>i just took the practice test, and the questions were much easier than the section quizzes</p>
<p>does anyone know how the kaplan difficulty matches up to the real thing?</p>