<p>Hey everyone! I was doing Barron's 2400's math section. I was shocked to find conditional probability in it! I have never encountered a question pertaining to conditional probability in the SAT or its practice tests! Probability is in the syllabus for sure, but conditional probability?</p>
<p>I sincerely hope it’s not! And do we need to learn formulas for prisms? Their volume, area etc?</p>
<p>Anyone has an idea?</p>
<p>Gee, no one? wow.</p>
<p>I think they could ask conditional probability since it’s well within the curriculum that they test but I can’t say I’ve definitively seen one on a practice test. Not sure why you’re panicking about it, it’s pretty much middle school math.</p>
<p>The geometric formulas are always given to you, either on the first page of the section or within the question itself.</p>
<p>conditional probability is not easy. and it’s definitely not mid school stuff. dont confuse it with normal probability.</p>
<p>The kind of difficult stuff you are probably thinking of is never on the SAT. (Like: what is the probability that you have a certain disease given that you test positive…) </p>
<p>Let the Blue Books be your guide. If you have not seen a concept tested there, it is not likely that you are going to see it on your test. The topics covered evolve slowly – any major change (like including topics from Algebra II) is always announced well in advance. For example, when they added Algebra II, they were pretty specific. They said there could be problems where trig was possible but not required. So you are not going to suddenly need Bayes Theorem with no warning.</p>
<p>No it will not be on the SAT I. Barron’s is crap.</p>
<p>Thank goodness.
And is simultaneous linear inequality, wherein we have to solve two inequalities for x and y in our course for SAT? (In which we have to plot the equations, and the highlight the areas, and then see the overlapping area.)</p>
<p>No.
You’ll only see such questions on the SAT II Math IIC Test.</p>
<p>I suggest you stop using Barron’s. It is neither accurate nor helpful.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks. But apart from these two things, the book’s really good! The graph transformations, and appendix formulas.</p>
<p>No it isn’t. 95% of the content presented for the Math section in Barron’s is not on the SAT.</p>
<p>NO!!
Barron’s 2400. READ the book! It’s very good. I improved my score in math by 70 points, by just solving the math section of the book. All topic except the above mentioned ones are in the SAT course. I think you are confusing the book with Barron’s SAT guide.</p>
<p>What would you guys say is the best SAT prep book? I scored a 2020 the first time I took the SAT and am looking to raise this by at least 200 points. I have the Kaplan book, but are there others that are better?
And any tips on the essay, I am a good writer, but scored a 7 on the essay. I feel they grade it unfairly because sample six essays seem like they were written by a sixth greater. They lack strong vocabulary and sentence construction, but they got a six because of the generic structure of the essay?
Also, the prompt I had was about electronic communication and didn’t allow for evidence from history or literature : /</p>
<p>^^ You’re a ****ing idiot. I HAVE the Barron’s 2400 Book and I KNOW for a FACT that it’s useless af. Lol 70 points? Well guess what? If you didn’t use Barron’s and used Gruber’s and the Blue Book instead, you would have raised your score by 150 points like me, from 650 to 800.</p>
<p>^^ Best Books:</p>
<p>Practice Tests: Collegeboard Blue Book (2nd Edition), Princeton Review 2011 11 Practice Tests for the SAT & PSAT, 2005-2009 Wednesday & Saturday PSAT Tests from collegeboard.com</p>
<p>Math: Gruber’s Math Workbook or Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide (Math Section only)</p>
<p>Critical Reading: (Vocabulary) Direct Hits, Barron’s 3500 Vocabulary List
(Passage-based) Rocket Review, Grammatix, and just practicing through practice tests</p>
<p>Writing: Sparknotes.com’s 7 Deadly Screw-Ups, Silverturtle’s Guide</p>
<p>definitely almost thought that was directed at me for a minute.
So i’m assuming you recommend the Blue Book? I also got 650 on the math section, and a 150 point increase would be great.</p>
<p>^ Refrain from being profane. Please. It’s really shameful. It’s not like I did barron’s for weeks. I did it yesterday. Took me two hours. It’s like 50 pages! Two hours – Totally worth it. Gruber’s is mostly easy, and mostly ludicrously oversimplified.
710 to 780 with two hours of prep, ain’t that bad a deal, right?</p>
<p>Oh, I did Gruber’s too, for my earlier SAT. Got a 690. </p>
<p>It’d be really cool of you to specifically point out the parts of Barron’s that do not pertain to the syllabus or are irrelevant. Apart from the ones we’ve discussed (which I believe are useful.)</p>
<p>AND PLEASE, NO NAME CALLING. Aren’t we past that age?</p>
<p>eacole,
- Do the 10 BB tests.
- Buy the online course, and do the 10 tests.
- <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/955109-silverturtles-guide-sat-admissions-success.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/955109-silverturtles-guide-sat-admissions-success.html</a>
- <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/750399-how-attack-sat-critical-reading-section-effectively.html</a>
- <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/645763-how-write-12-essay-just-10-days.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/645763-how-write-12-essay-just-10-days.html</a></p>
<p>And you’re set.</p>
<p>You definitely have to use the Blue Book because those are real SAT tests, the one that you are going to have to take produced by the same testing company - ETS & the Collegeboard.</p>
<p>I recommend you take at least 2 BB Practice Tests each week.
If you buy all the PSATs on collegeboard.com, that will be equivalent to 4 additional practice tests. Added to the BB you will have a total of 14. If you’re going for October, do 3 practice tests each week.</p>
<p>Use the Princeton Review as practice each day, as in do one Math section, one Critical Reading section, and one Writing section each day.</p>
<p>Before you do that practice though, review and learn at least 100 vocabulary words (Critical reading), review Math concepts and formulas (Mathematics), and review the rules for Writing (Writing).</p>
<p>REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW any mistakes you get on the practice sections and the practice tests.</p>