<p>my friend yesterday told me that he got 770 on math 2 without any prepping. i prepped for about a month and got 690. the difference between him and me is that he took calculus. he said that if he didnt take calculus he would have certainly got low 600 on math 2 test. i took pre calculus jr year and going to take Calc AB senior year. did taking calculus really help you guys out? i dont understand cause i thot math 2 goes only up to trig...</p>
<p>I don’t think it helps…think in some cases it slows you down precalc is all you need for 2c. btw wat book are you using to prep? if its barrons then you’re all set cuz a 690 = automatic 800 on real thing</p>
<p>no i got 690 on the REAL one unfortunately… but its really weird cause the friend i mentioned yesterday isnt the only person who did well without any prep for math 2. maybe pre-calc is enough but calculus just prepares you better??</p>
<p>No, Calc just gives you shortcuts in some questions, but for most you can do the test easily. Trust me, prep harder and take the test again, you’ll get your goal :)</p>
<p>Oh my goodness, I totally regret not taking Math IIC after I finished Pre-Calc. After taking a year of Calc BC, I forgot all the basic material from Pre-Calc, and just couldn’t bring myself to take the test.</p>
<p>It helps very very little. Of course, if you get bored during a practice test, you can always use cross sections and integrals to find the volume of a solid.</p>
<p>I took it after I took Calculus and I felt that I could have done the same without it.</p>
<p>I loved using differentiation to solve those maxima and minima problems when taking Math 2 , it is a great shortcut for calc students. But still it is not a big deal and you can do well even after taking precalc</p>
<p>calc is definitely an overpreparation (it won’t even prep you on the material the math II covered)
mathII covers mostly trigonometry so pre-calc is all you need
you don’t need to differentiate anything and everything is still easily doable without calc
i also wouldn’t wait a year after pre-calc to take it cuz then you’ll forget all the trig</p>
<p>What’s a good book for the SAT Math IIC prep?</p>
<p>Like I have Princeton Review but its Math I and Math II so it dilutes the difficulty as I’m aiming for a 800…</p>
<p>just use Barron’s
it’s everything you ever need
i got an 800 with it</p>
<p>Calc won’t help you: 800 is completely within reach of someone without it. Like some people said, if you don’t do any prep you might even have forgotten some more basic precal concepts.</p>
<p>there are no Calculus based questions on the Math IIC</p>
<p>It depends on how well you understand calculus… if you understand it well, know how to use it, it can help you in maybe a few question :P. But in general, you don’t need it. But it can definitely help you out a little. </p>
<p>But there aren’t any calculus questions on there except limits i think?</p>
<p>But to be honest, the calculus should not be responsible for the 80 point difference. Math IIc only goes up to Trig.</p>
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<p>There’s a whole thread for math SAT II’s in the featured section.</p>
<p>lol seriously kudos to barron’s</p>
<p>but anyway it really depends. material-wise, you only need up to pre-calc. But I took the uber honors *** is wrong with you teacher you are a sadist version of pre-calc lol</p>
<p>math 2 is all about navigating around the slight nuiances of questions to do them quickly and accurately</p>
<p>calc - let’s say at an AP level - could have helped in that respect</p>
<p>I took Math II after taking Calculus BC and got an 800 on it (I prepped for a couple of weeks). My friend, who took Math II after finishing pre-calc, also got an 800. Basically, it doesn’t really matter whether or not you take calc before you take it. I found, however, when I was reviewing, that I had forgotten a lot of the material covered in pre-calc. I had to relearn a lot before the test.</p>
<p>I got an 800 on the test while taking it just before the end of Pre Calc. Honestly, the test isn’t that complicated, and it only simply requires the ability to “problem solve” extremely quickly while getting a stuff right. I also know someone who took Calculus BC and had forgotten a lot of PreCalc (conics, trig formulas, combinatorics, etc.) and still got an 800. Truly, if you have a TI-89, the calculator will pretty much take the test for you as long as you know your Algebra and formulas (most of which you don’t even need).</p>
<p>actually i think that if you took it after Calculus (with no prep) and after PreCalculus (with no prep) you would score better after PreCal.
Calculus has nothing to do with the test; in fact, you may forgot the intricacies of precal in taking calculus</p>
<p>Thats a good point. If you’re going to take Math 2, do yourself a favor and take it after Pre Calculus or even Trig than after Calculus. It makes more sense because in Calculus you don’t even deal with half the stuff on the test (conics, explicit trigonometry, probability, combinatorics, polynomials etc.) Although you will be have more experience with stuff like series and sequences, limits, and even functions, the risk of forgetting basic precalculus is far too great.</p>