<p>Are the Barron's SAT II U.S. History practice tests beastly? I can't answer many of the questions, and half the time I have to read the question many times to understand what it's asking. </p>
<p>Since my test is in a week, I'm more than a little worried. Even the REA book for APUSH wasn't this hard. I spent half of tonight reading over the Sparknotes book, since I know details from having studied for the AP test. What else can I do?</p>
<p>Barrons (and most practice tests, for that matter) are quite a bit more challenging than the actual test. </p>
<p>If you felt confident on the AP Test, you should do fine.</p>
<p>I thought the REA SAT II US History practice tests were pretty hard. </p>
<p>Would it be better just to study from Kaplan and read that book religiously, or to take some practice tests from Barron's and Sparknotes and what not.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info; I'm using Barron's as my only prep book for the exam, and I couldn't answer a lot of the questions as well.</p>
<p>I usually pull scores of 700's in Barrons because of history knowledge. My max is a 760 and I am yet to get an 800 on barrons. I get frustrated sometimes because the answers for the Barrons book wouldn't seem right in other books that I have reviewed. In my opinion, Barrons has very trivial questions. There are several questions in practice test one that involve remember which person said this. Sometimes its very difficult because one doesnt necessarily remember the exact person that said this, but the idea. For example:</p>
<ol>
<li>In World War II, the leader who said "I shall return," was?
Prime Minister Chamberlain
Prime Minister Churchill
General Eisenhower
General MacArthur
General Montgomery</li>
</ol>
<p>I dont recall the AP test having questions like this. Recently one question appeared involving Abigail Adams, "dont forget the ladies" but that was less trivial this this is. Questions like this are the reason people who take the test have very low scores. I am sure they will not have a number of these on the test but a few. IN addiiton, questions that ask for United Sates Constitution amendments (the less popular ones) and other types of law granted by the constituion seem to be tough since no one remembers them. Everyone should know a simple basis of Bill of rights, amendment 14-20 but other then that Barrons test asks for others. Study Barrons answers and im sure you will do quite well. But remember to study other books as well.</p>
<p>Okay, today, I took a real SAT II USH from that giant book of past SAT IIs, and I got an 800.</p>
<p>Which is very different from the 600 on Barron's (I didn't actually check the score - I was too scared).</p>
<p>Was that real test one of the easier ones, or am I really better off not using Barron's?</p>
<p>Barron's really frustrates me because it asks seven follow-up questions, so if I'm not clear on the topic, I'm screwed for all those questions. And I hate the Speaker A/B/C/D questions. They're very time consuming and, again, there're 5-7 follow-up questions. I only came across one question like that on the real SAT II I took today, and it was much shorter and straightforward.</p>
<p>I think I'm just going to finish reading the Sparknotes guidebook and skim through Barron's.</p>
<p>Yeah, the Barron's practice tests are hard. The real one is probably one of average difficulty for the USH SAT II. However, there are a couple of trivia questions on the SAT II, just to put it out there.</p>
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