<p>I bought both barrons and a collegetestprep.com subscription. barrons seems a bit difficult and collegetestprep has actually been much better it tells me where im screwing up and whatnot, this is really helpful since I only have a little bit of time. I might pickup a princeton review too this weekend.</p>
<p>Tomorrow I can pick up a book. What should I get? You guys probably know I have Barron’s haha Collegeboard, Princeton Review, or Kaplan?</p>
<p>@youwrotethis – It depends on what you’re looking to do test-prep wise. If you want to review concepts/formulas, PR is better; if you just want to take more practice tests, College Board’s book is probably the better choice because the tests in it are official released exams. I don’t know anything about Kaplan, so I can’t really judge its usefulness.</p>
<p>I’m looking for accurate practice tests, and Kaplan has 4 while PR and Collegeboard have 2. But I’m getting mixed feelings about Kaplan from others… haha</p>
<p>Do these programs work on the 89? :(</p>
<p>I really need them…</p>
<p>How do you add programs to calculators?</p>
<p>You need the USB cord that came with your calculator, and install the Ti program (Ti Connect or something) then you just hook it up, open up the program, and drag the files into it</p>
<p>The programs don’t work on the 89. And I can’t connect my 84 for some reason.</p>
<p>^I don’t think it works on windows 7</p>
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<p>What’s linear regression like on the SAT 2? I’ve never encountered a linear regression problem in my life outside of AP Statistics; that level of depth should be sufficient, I hope.
Do we need to know how to find directrices, focal parameters, and eccentricity (not linear eccentricity)?</p>
<p>I took this last june (soooooooo relieved I got my 800 and it’s OVER) and used barrons + the college board practice tests book. barron’s was sooooooo hard but I got through all their stuff (freshman year…how I envy how much free time I had to prepare for it…) and when I got to the exam it was so much easier than barrons that I didn’t skip a single one. I doubt I could still take math II now, but if you prepare with barron’s and are getting at least 740ish, you’re definitely in the running for an 800. I wish I knew how many questions I got wrong etc. but they don’t tell you for the sat iis…</p>
<p>is sparknotes way easier than the actual test or something? I 800’d a sparknotes test with about 20 minutes to go, no graphing calculator, and there was no stuff on matrices or SD or Linear Regression</p>
<p>I think Sparknotes is about the same, if anything I’ve heard it’s easier… so you might as well not study haha</p>
<p>Ok here’s a question from Barrons (This is on page 85)</p>
<p>How many triangles can be formed if a=24, b=32, and angle A = 150 degrees</p>
<p>So since the opposite sides is less than the non-opposite side, I have to find the height to verify whether a triangle can exist.</p>
<p>The height = 32sin(150) = 16</p>
<p>So since the opposite side > height, shouldn’t two triangles exist?</p>
<p>Barrons says no triangles exist. Can someone explain?</p>
<p>^Angle A goes with side a. Since side b is larger than side a, that means angle B has to be greater than angle A, which is not possible if angle A is 150</p>
<p>oh ok thanks</p>
<p>But the way above is what my teacher taught me</p>
<p>When the opposite side is less than the non-opposite side, you have to find height.</p>
<p>If the height is < opposite side, two triangles exist
If height > opposite side, no triangles exists
and if height = opposite side, one right triangle exists</p>
<p>Finally on Sparknotes I got a 750 (counting 2 typos) 
Now I don’t feel as overwhelmed by this test</p>
<p>How different is the Math II compared to the SAT I and ACT tests? My son got a 790 on the SAT and a 36 on the ACT. Will the SAT II be similar type questions?</p>
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<p>Math Level 2 covers many more topics than SAT Reasoning Math, but the questions are generally more straightfoward on the Subject Test. Math Level 2 is more similar to the ACT Math section, but it still covers a bit more. With some preparation, he could pull off 800 on the Subject Test pretty easily I suspect.</p>
<p>Thanks Silverturtle. I should also mention he has had Calc 1, 2 and 3. What areas might the SAT II test that he would not be familiar with? I’d like to narrow it down if possible because he really doesnt study for these things much.</p>