<p>Does anyone have an idea on Rusen Meylani's 15 Realistic Tests for 2C? Please comment on how realistic the tests are; and how well the solutions are given.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>In my opinion, you guys should just take the test once without any prep and see how you do. I did that and realized that I screwed myself over and didn't manage my time correctly so I wasn't able to finish. Between the first and 2nd time I took 2C, I bought an REA review book which was absolute garbage because the questions were like 10x harder than anything I had seen the first time I took it. I went in the 2nd time and managed my time better and was able to finish just fine and score really well.</p>
<p>If you have a decent knowledge of math, the 2C will be a piece of cake. Those review books are pointless.</p>
<p>they were great. i was tearing myself apart for the "realistic" exams so when i got to the real thing, i was definitely prepared. they weren't exactly realistic...perhaps a bit harder than normal but no complaints. those things gave me an 800.</p>
<p>Hi, I am Rusen Meylani.</p>
<p>As for the level of my tests, I am trying to make them harder than the real test, the reason is I believe that a student must be trained with harder questions so that the real tests will be easier.</p>
<p>As for realistic, I believe they are. Here is what I do while preparing the questions, I get a lot of feedback from my students who take the real SAT's and the other teachers in my team who constantly go over every source on the SAT's. We then "guess" what might be asked in the coming exams and try to produce every version of any question likely to appear.</p>
<p>For example f(|x|) and |f(x)| are often confused by the students. However these are only 2 of the 30 transformations that may ever appear on the SAT questions on advance graphing of functions.</p>
<p>We then test our questions on our students among which there are many valedictorians who are really good in math. Then we make the test harder or easier, but we do try to maintain a certain level of difficulty. Then we revise the questions over and over again and finally decide on which tests to publish. Those on my book "15 Realistic Tests" are selected among 50 tests.</p>
<p>The solutions, however assume a certain level of knowledge as we do think that the Level 2 test (formerly known as 2C) is like a contest among the students interested in math more than others.</p>
<p>As for the language errors, we do apologize because English is not our native language.</p>
<p>I hope this information will help you.</p>
<p>On the other hand I have opened a thread where I will be willing to answer any questions or listen to any suggestions and comments to make my books better. </p>
<p>Best of luck to you all.</p>
<p>Gee, are you really Rusen Meylani? You have done a wonderful job with your books sir, everyone recommends your books.</p>
<p>They are harder than the real thing. But if you can do every problem in the Meylani set cold, you will get an 800. Not just an 800, but a pretty amazing raw score.</p>
<p>I did. </p>
<p>Meylani is my LIFE.</p>