<p>I recently took three Barron's model tests in the newest edition, and scored 690, 655, and 690, using the scoring guidelines the book provided.</p>
<p>I had wanted to get 800, but now I am not sure if that's realistic anymore. </p>
<p>I have read thousands of times that Barron's is unrealistically difficult, however, I still think 690 is kind of low, even if Barron's is difficult.</p>
<p>If my goal is 800, is this a bad omen?</p>
<p>Barrons is wayyy more challenging than the actual thing. I don’t remember what my score out of 800 was for Barrons, but I never got more than 30~/50 and I ended up getting an 800 easily. Don’t sweat it just keep working until Saturday!!</p>
<p>Barron’s is killing me on the inside…</p>
<p>dont worry, i also got such that kinda scores when i did barron’s but i got quite ok for CB and princeton review
just be careful on the day and it’ll be fine 
anw, anyone taking 3 subjects this coming saturday?
i’m taking maths1,2 and chem :)</p>
<p>I’m taking 3 as well.</p>
<p>Good to know about Barrons, as I’m about to take their first practice test today. ;)</p>
<p>Also taking three:bio, chem, and math2 and now I HATE MATH WITH PURE PASSION! I can’t get above 500 on practice tests and am aiming for around 700. LOL</p>
<p>how did you manage to score a 655? ;)</p>
<p>I don’t think Barrons is hard, just time consuming…I never get to finish a test. Out of three tests, my fastest pace was finishing 45 questions out of 50 in the allotted time. I’m afraid that I might run out of time on the real thing more than getting things incorrectly.</p>
<p>Well, that’s what makes it hard. I’m sure everyone who says it’s hard can do the problems if they weren’t on such a huge time constraint.</p>
<p>Actually, getting almost a 700 on one of those Barron math II tests while managing to finish it in a hour is kind of impressive. To get an idea as to how well you are doing, go try one of those actual collegeboard MathIIs or take a Sparknotes test. It’ll make your day.</p>
<p>Ewwww, I got a 770 on Barron’s Math II and I thought I was good at math…</p>
<p>If you take Calculus your junior year, I think it would be a good idea take the SAT II after Calculus. I say this because although I not taken the Math SAT II yet (I will on June 6), I went through the Barron’s practice test without studying (although I had taken the AP test the week before), and I felt that there were many problems in which using calculus benefitted me. I also felt that I had a greater understanding of the problems and was not as reliant on my calculator for this reason. Many problems that would have taken a minute for me to solve a year ago practically took less than 20 seconds. For example, all of the function related problems and limit problems are now a walk in the park, and some of the limits that would have required you to graph the solution on your calculator I can now do by hand (many using l’hopital’s rule for limits). You just have to review some probability stuff, which Barron’s covers quite well.</p>
<p>Yeah @ Bell Curve >_<</p>
<p>So, if I got a 770 on the Barrons, is this fine? Should I start studying for chem? XD</p>
<p>I got a 670 on Barron’s and a 760 on the real test…and I didn’t like study in between or anything…so yes, Barron’s is definitely way harder.</p>
<p>yeah barron’s harder, but u’ll probably need a 700 or above to make an 800 on the actual test.
why don’t u try to sparknotes one or the actual college board test?</p>
<p>from what i feel, barron’s maths tests seem to be a bit too dependent on graphing calculator. they force you to use it (i hate to use it) by giving so many questions about graph.
the graphing calculator is not easy to use anyway. for a simple function, we have to press so many buttons and that eat eat away our time. and there are some questions in barrons which require some particular functions that i’ve never known how to use…
also, the graph-drawing function never shows the asymptotes, and sometimes doesn’t show some portions of the graph itself which is why we got tricked.
i remember when i did the PR tests or the CB test, i rarely touched my graphing calculator :)</p>
<p>I got a 660 on the Barron’s tests before studying. I’m aiming for a 750. Realistic?</p>
<p>I’m taking 3 as well: Math II, Chem, and US History
I’m studying my butt off for the chem (still can’t even get a 600 on the Barron’s or Sparknotes =[ ), and I haven’t even gotten a chance to study the History which I know is a HUGE mistake. I’m relying on what I remember from the APUSH. Any advice on the chem though?</p>
<p>bump!!</p>
<p>I got a 700-720 (I’m giving a range because I took 5 extra minutes and looked up like 3)</p>
<p>Can I get a high 700???</p>
<p>How do you know what your raw score is converted to? Barrons doesn’t give a conversion table, so there is no way of knowing how your converted scores will turn out.</p>
<p>It says 800-10(44-Raw score)</p>
<p>Raw score is number right - .25number wrong.</p>