Few SAT Math II questions.

Test Preparation
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<p>Ok, first of all, I am an international student, and I'll take Math II next saturday. As for now, I only have barron's review book, and I find it rather difficult. Also, I noticed that most of the problems are ought to be solved with a graphic calculator. However, in my HS, we followed a more algebraic approach, where graphic calculators were neither necessary nor allowed. But using algebraic methods to solve the problems in barron's book is extremely time consuming and hard. </p>

<p>My question is, is the real test also like this? I mean, is the graphic calculator a must have? Could I get a decent score with a simple calc? I'm still waiting for the official CB book to arrive so I can see what is it really like, but I am unsure weather it will arrive on time.</p>

<p>Also, if it happens so that I absolutely bomb the test, I'll probably have to get a graphic calculator and learn how to use it over the summer and retake the test. I can't and won't get it now, mainly because they are either unavailable or hard to find and I probably won't get used to it over a week. But if I'll buy one later, perhaps online, which one should I get? I know that TI calcs are good, but there are so many of them, multiple versions of 83's, 84's, 89's, nspire's, I am lost. Which one is the best or which one is the easiest to use?</p>

<p>Thanks for your input people, and sorry for such a long post, I kind of got carried away in to the details :D.</p>

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<p>Bump bump bump</p>

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<ol>
<li>Barron’s review is too indepth, and if you can manage a 600 or so, you can get an 800 on the real test</li>
<li>I took the test in January without a graphing calculator, and found everything manageable, even straightforward. A graphing calculator is unnecessary; however a calculator with sine, cosine, tangent, natural log and log, and cube root functions is recommended.
Good Luck!</li>
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<p>^Thanks man. Another thing, do you know if there are matrices in the test? Because I haven’t learned them yet, and I am not sure if they appear on the test (I think I heard they they don’t) and if I should bother learning them.</p>

<p>P.S. A dumb question. WTH is Calculus and Pre-calculus? Is that a general name for trig, logarithms and the rest of junior year math course? Lol, I don’t think I should be asking :D</p>