<p>well, for the sat reasoning, the barrons book sucked. it was too hard on the math and too easy for the writing. i bought it online adn it wasted my money.</p>
<p>for the math IIC, i bought it because its better to be overprepared than underprepared but.... my self-esteem is so low right now! theres a gazillion formulas to remember!</p>
<p>This thread is analogous to a dull pencil; there's no point. </p>
<p>Hehe, I've always wanted to say that.</p>
<p>Wow... I felt that way too, until I got an 800.</p>
<p>should i buy barrons?</p>
<p>For what? The SAT Subject Test or the SAT Reasoning Test?</p>
<p>Go With The Princeton Review...and Take Their Classes If You Can.</p>
<p>I wouldn't go with PR. I've read several of their books and I think that they're utter trash. They focus on trying to "beat the test" with their overglorified process of elimination. </p>
<p>Go with Barron's. It may kick your tush, but it's worth it.</p>
<p>I agree with Ashraf, PR books are useless for people who are above 1900/2000. Joe Bloggs is a horrible strategy. I also think Barrons is a good book, but get the LATEST EDITION (23rd I believe). I have the 22nd and it is full of little errors.</p>
<p>Yes, get Barron's. It will help you immensly if you use it right.</p>
<p>Barron's 2400 is useless. I read it and it decreased my CR by 70 points. The strategies for reading long passages just completely screwed me up. The writing wasn't helpful at all... looking over a ten page writing packet helped me a lot more. I can't really comment on the math, as I didn't look at it at all.</p>
<p>It's better to just memorize roots, prefixes, and suffixes and just do whatever feels natural on the passages. Got me an 800...</p>
<p>it decreased my CR score too! my psat score was 730 and then i read barrons and it dropped to a 650... luckily i brought it up to a 710 but it screweeeeeeedddd me over</p>
<p>yeah i took a PR math level 2 test 1.5 years ago and got like a 780ish. Then took a barrons, didnt' answer all of them, and got high 600s. </p>
<p>But I got an 800 on the real thing.</p>
<p>It pays off. Barrons for Math IIC</p>
<p>/slightly off topic, but from (at least my) experience:</p>
<p>The PR book <em>was</em> good for the SATII bio--the practice test questions were very similar to the actual test (and I got an 800 ^_^). But it was more of a review--if you're actually looking to learn all of the material, PR probably isn't the way to go.</p>
<p>Math IIC isn't that bad to begin with if you've got a good foundation in pre-calc.</p>
<p>Barrons math II is ridiculously hard for the material but from other people ive heard from, you do a lot better on the actual thing. I liked Kaplan, with a strong math background, taking a couple practice tests i put up 790 and i was ashamed. It depends if you can put up with low scores on barrons and ive heard it has some info in there that is never on the real tests</p>