<p>I just bought the Barron's SATII Math IIC, and I hear that even if you score about 650 on Barron's tests you can get an 800 on the actual thing. Well, I just took the diagonistic test, but when I went to convert my raw score to the scale score, I realized that there isn't a conversion table in the book. It just says 41-50 excellent, 33-40 very good, etc. So, did I buy the wrong book/edition? If so, which book should I have bought? And does it have the scale conversions???</p>
<p>someone answer her cuz I have the same problem.
galgrl, no you didn't buy the wrong book... they just like to annoy you with the no conversion thing. I looked through some other books and they have conversion charts, though. Barron's just doesn't like to give you a bad approximation I think.</p>
<p>Thanks, but I borrowed the SATII Chem Barron's book from the library and that one sort of has a scale conversion. It has 75-85 = 800, 70-75 = 780-800. In other words, it shows scores in ranges. But this math one has nothing. I mean excellent/good/above average are all such relative terms . . . .</p>
<p>So, does basically everyone use outside scales? If so, should I just study the stuff from my Precalc class (we have an awesome teacher, she's taught all the years my school's been open (17) and never had a kid flunk AP Calc AB/BC . . . apparently if you get a B in her class you'll still probably get a 5 on the test . . . )? I have 100+ percent in there, so would just studying that and maybe brushing up on permutations, etc. be enough?</p>
<p>is the Barron's book a good sample of the real test? coz my friend who took it said that it was pretty tricky, and the Kaplan book made it seem a little too easy.</p>
<p>Math IIC is alot easier than some review books would suggest, I thought. I borrowed the book like a couple of days before I took the test and read over it (the hardest thing on it being limits and such) and the real test didnt have many such questions. I thought the test was like the SAT I without any trick questions and it was like a regular school test. Trust me, you'll all do well on it. The curve is usually nice too; my friend omitted one and still got an 800 so the curve was atleast an 800 800 curve. I wish other tests were like that... <em>cough cough US History</em> </p>
<p>Barron's does make the problems slightly harder, but I don't think it's OVERLY hard. I always managed to get 800s on their tests, but never managed to get 0 wrong. I got 800 on the test btw...</p>
<p>800 800 800 800 800 800 800 800 790 780 770 760 750 740 730 720 710 700 690 680 670 660 650.... in other words, omit half and get half right and you get a 630. Very lenient curve.</p>