<p>Does anyone have any tips for this test? Which books are the best (I've ordered Barron's and was considering PR.) Oh, and approximately how many can you miss and still receive an 800?</p>
<p>Barron’s will prepare you MORE than enough to get an 800 on the test, given you understand most of the information. I think you should go through the sparknotes guide to math level two online (It should take about a week or two, if you do a chapter a day, for an hour a day). Take notes on whatever you have to memorize from sparknotes, perhaps copy&paste it to a word document. I am making my own study guide, using sparknotes, and if you want, I can send you what I have so far. Give me a PM. Also, ake sure you go through Barron’s, it’s difficult, but it will help. (or so I’ve heard ;)) I am almost done going through Sparknotes and am going to go through Barron’s next, and then start memorizing my guide. After this, I’m quite confident I will get an 800.</p>
<p>Also, in response to your other question, assuming you understand how raw scores work, a raw score of abour 43-44 out of 50 is an 800. There could, therefore, be many combinations of omits and incorrect answers that will bring you an 800. </p>
<p>Hope I helped :)</p>
<p>If the CC community doesn’t get too mad at me for using information from a prep company and creating my “own” guide, I plan to turn “my” guide into a pdf and share a download link so everyone can use it to memorize the stuff. I suppose I’ll also include a disclaimer saying that all of the information is from Sparknotes.</p>
<p>i had like 660±10 consistently on the barrons, and got a low 800(super close from 790) on the real one, so if you can get 650+ on barrons, you should be able to get 750+ on the real one.
barrons aren’t that accurate though because they make some ridiculously hard and faulty questions.</p>
<p>^agreed with above poster; some topics i found pretty confusing, considering i have not taken pre-calc yet.</p>
<p>@ schoolisfun…thank you for offering! That would be great…I will also PM you :). </p>
<p>I’m glad to hear that Barron’s is difficult. I was looking it through it today wondering if I was just a complete failure in Math as everyone else seems to have gotten an 800! Would you guys also recommend PR? I had heard it is a more accurate assessment of the difficulty of the real test…or would that be superfluous? </p>
<p>Thanks for the help!!</p>
<p>^ Well I can’t say because I haven’t used the PR book, nor have I taken the test…yet. The reasoning behind Barron’s seems to be supported by many, but you may want to do some research into PR, or try to see if you can find something in that sticky in the SAT subject test prep forum. I believe it is by jamesford.</p>
<p>Yeah I was intimidated by the Barrons book too.
Don’t worry 700 in Barrons easily translate to 800 on the real thing. I’ve heard even high 600s do as well. Personally, I found studying Barrons to be very helpful - I took their tests + the two real CB tests and that was enough to make me really comfortable.</p>
<p>As for PR…I guess it’s about the same difficulty as the test, but honestly, they only have two practice tests as I remember. The material can be found in Barrons and on Sparknotes, so idk that it’s worth it to get that book for just two tests. Definitely get the official collegeboard study guide for math (if you haven’t already) since this has two previously administered tests. I saved the real tests for the very end of my prep and couldn’t believe how much better they were than Barrons!</p>
<p>Shouldn’t this thread be relocated, though?</p>
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<p>Yes, yes it should.</p>
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<p>Agreed.</p>
<p>^ Oops sorry I put it in the wrong forum!! My bad!</p>
<p>Great! Thanks for all your help everyone! I will be reading Barrons (and most likely Sparknotes) + taking the two CB tests. Awesome 
thanks!!</p>
<p>I don’t know how helpful this tip will be (it worked for me at least) since I didn’t prep much for the test and didn’t have a prep book. On the other hand, I have a TI-84 calculator and found some programs designed for the SAT II. I played around with them the day before the test to see what they could do (which was actually a lot) and ended up scoring an 800. It might be helpful to go over a prep book and learn the concepts, then only use a calculator program to save some time. </p>
<p>I did take one practice test in Barron’s at the library and ended up scoring around a 670, which kinda scared me.</p>
<p>Good luck! :D</p>
<p>^I have heard a lot about grahing calculators and how helpful they are; I think I’m going to get one since I’ll need it for pre-calc anyways</p>