<p>I'm taking precalculus honors right now at my school. We haven't learned much about coordinate geometry or trigonometry yet, which I heard is a major part of the math II test. However I'm very good with math (of course I am lol, I'm asian) and have always gotten straight A's in math with no problems and minimal studying. I also have a strong grasp on algebra, functions, decent knowledge base on geometry (forgot some of it) and consider myself very good at math. </p>
<p>However when I looked through the Barrons SAT Math II book I got like 1/4 of the questions wrong. This concerns me. But I heard that it's harder than the usual and I got a 630 on the diagnostic test without any studying, and also skipping 14 questions because I didn't know trigonometry, coordinate geometry or sequences and series. I recall I got 8 questions wrong and the rest right. </p>
<p>How much should I study though? I plan to take the Math II on May the 1st so I have about a little less than 2 months now to study. Is the test as hard as Barrons or significantly easier?</p>
<p>DO NOT use barrons for SAT II math. i got like 600’s on the barrons test questions, and 800 on the actual SAT II.
i dont know if its like that for every SAT II, but for 2c, it was SO MUCH HARDER than it really is. use some other book. and just keep taking practice tests over and over and over and over. the nice thing about 2c is that you can get like 5 wrong and still get 800… lol</p>
<p>Why are you not waiting until you’ve learned trig?</p>
<p>Anyway, just download a program for it. I don’t think it’s worthwhile to memorize all the trig formulas, and it’s best to have a back up anyway. Programs are perfectly legal. If I were you, I’d get a program for sequences and series too. I have programs for Seq and Ser, all the trig IDs, the law of cosines, and the existence of a triangle based on side lengths. Personally, they help me go a lot faster. Without programs, I got a 690. Wit them, I got a 760. And I suck at math.</p>
<p>Get the CB book, take a practice test and score it. That’ll give you a better idea of what your score is and how much you need to study.</p>
<p>The thing is all the stuff that you don’t know for the SAT II is primarily formula based and therefore to be honest it doesn’t matter what book you use as long as it teaches the formulae required (which all of the should do) and you can figure out how to use them.</p>
<p>Math II requires very little pre-calc. I took only three weeks of pre-calc, retained none of it, am NOT that good at math and still got an 800 on Math II. </p>
<p>I crammed 2 weeks before the test and managed to pull off a 750. This test isn’t about how much you know, it’s about how you can use your timing skills effectively.</p>