<p>I just took the Chem. diagnostic test in Barrons and got a 750 with a raw score of 65 but the curve seems a bit too generous...what scores did other people get on the real SAT II Chemistry in comparison to the practice tests in Barrons? kthanks</p>
<p>that actually is not generous.. seems about right.</p>
<p>barron's SAT subject tests are usually ridiculously hard and people don't do well... one of my friends took a test and got like a 600 on Math IIC and started freaking out but then took the real exam and got an 800.</p>
<p>also, the barron's SAT Chem has LOTS of errors in it.</p>
<p>well...barron's.....if you look at a college inorganic chemistry book(usually studied by senior chem-major students), you will find a lot of stuff on that barron's SATII book(yay, barron's philosophy is overpreparing helps more than just telling you what you should know, and it seems to be a typical eastern-asian philosophy)
but i dont think it works</p>
<p>What sort of errors? Like concept errors, or typos?</p>
<p>It's like, they give you one set of numbers and then go and solve the problem as if they had given you a different set.</p>
<p>like they give you ones that require a calculator</p>
<p>im gonna fail chem. on that diagnostic, i got a 550...</p>
<p>First of all, Barron's is more difficult than the real test, so that 550 might not really be that horrible.</p>
<p>Second of all, that's the diagnostic test, so if you prepare using the book you should be able to bring it up that way as well.</p>
<p>true, i have one more week of school left. then one week of my summer break to devote my time to sat chem only!!! lol</p>
<p>wow...seems like your school ends pretty early...</p>
<p>yep but my school starts early. first week of august</p>
<p>i'd rather have that... more ap teaching time. my school starts early sept. and ends mid/late June... so i spend about a month and a half doing nothing in those classes.</p>
<p>barron's is HELLA hard. i take that & i get like 750 ish.
when i use princeton's , it's like 790-800ish.
kaplan's even easier: easy 800.</p>
<p>i don't know what to believe anymore -_-;</p>
<p>I think you're doing fine...from what I've read in all these threads, Baron's is actually harder than the real test so that 750 should be just fine.</p>
<p>ive been getting like 720-750's... lol and i like basically skip the ones which look like they need calc's so i think you're doing just fine.</p>
<p>Thank you for responding so quickly everyone!</p>