<p>"hey, i got an 800 but it was in the 90th percentile. do colleges see the 90? does it count against me?"
Oh cmon man. Your 800 should be rescinded. How could a college ask for more than a perfect score. Really. </p>
<p>yen06 I was asking because the IIC grades like mrognlie mentioned are hugely inflated and I am sure that I can get an 800. I also aced nearly all my math tests this semester.</p>
<p>Anyone find trigonometry much easier than functions?</p>
<p>Ahhh, 790...it's kind of bittersweet...so close to 800, yet I don't know if it's worth the effort to take it again in June just for another 10 points.</p>
<p>for someone who got an 800 on the IIc, asking if the 90th percentile will act against u is the most retarded question ever.</p>
<p>lol i second that excalibur. not like colleges will reject you b/c you didnt get an 850...</p>
<p>I took a practice test from the Real SATII book from Collegeboard.</p>
<p>I noticed that the curve was like...</p>
<p>800
800
800
800
800
800
790
etc..</p>
<p>is the IIC curve really that generous?</p>
<p>accel it differs slightly with each test. IIC is the easiest SAT II to ace (by far or so I hear).</p>
<p>Accel, I think that the SAT II curves for math iic generally are that generous (or almost) - which is why so many people get 800s.</p>
<p>Before you officially deem him retarded, I think that wishful_thinker was assuming that the 90th percentile figure reflected not merely his absolute score but his raw score (and that colleges, seeing a relatively low percentile, would find that he barely made an 800). Of course, that isn't true: everyone receiving an 800 was 90th percentile this year.</p>
<p>I found the IIC to have a super easy curve. I took it in october with no prep, nine months removed from calc AB (my last math class before that), and still got a 780. I must have missed 4-5 (omitted 3)...so yea, it's not a hard test at all to get a top score on if you are mathematically inclined. I think that the reason for the skewed percentiles is that the students taking the test tend to be the mathy types, while those who shun math take the (much easier) IC.</p>
<p>well cavalier to redeem myself in light of your comments:
20% of the material was completely new.
If you count material that was covered in my algebra II class but being relearned in Precalc.</p>
<p>Basically the only thing I didnt have to relearn was algebraic manipulation, rules of exponents and trig, which I was learning in class, which I found pretty easy. Comes out to 60-70% of the material.</p>
<p>Now I remember why I took it so early. I took it in the hopes that it would boost my chances of being accepted to summer programs.</p>
<p>cavalier, while the rest of my class has yet to take it, do you really have to be that mathematically inclined to do well? I fancy myself pretty good in math but your statement is likely true of my class. 4 got As (2 just barely) and 6 got Cs.</p>
<p>I don't think you have to be particularly mathematically inclined. If you are an overall good student, I'm sure you would be able to get a good score, but if you feel the need, do some prep. Even one or two practice tests for diagnostic purposes would probably go a long way. I was pretty solid on most of the subject material when I took it, but completely forgot everything about matrices and a few other things...fortunately, for those topics, there were only a few questions. Most of the test will focus on the primary topics of a precalc class. So, let's say you do 2 or 3 practice tests and identify a few things that you're unfamiliar with, and you study those, and go into the test knowing 90% of the material. Then, let's say that you get 90% of the questions you know correct. That would give you a raw score of around 38, which equates to at least a 750.</p>
<p>Cavalier through my studying I think I knew 99-100% of the material. There were 2 questions I had no idea how to do, and were not covered in the prep books, matrices and equations of 3 dimensional polygons. I found out the matrices answer through a laborious trial and error session on my calculator.</p>
<p>Anybody have photocopies of SAT II Math past real tests that they would sell me (not the ones in the Real SAT II book) ? Please send me a private message.</p>
<p>Take AMC</a> tests if you want to get an impressive score on a test that's harder than the SAT II Math IIC. College admission officers know about them, and you should too.</p>
<p>I wish that I had known about the AMC tests last year. My school is pretty out-of-the-loop as far as elite college prep is concerned, so AMC isn't offered. I didn't find out about it until I found CC.</p>