<p>I'm planning to take this like the end of next year (I'm a rising soph) and I was wondering what math courses must you have completed to be ready for the topics covered in this test, because I'm not sure.</p>
<p>Just wanted to get over with one of those sat tests and I'll be in Precalculus in 10th grade; is AP calc BC necessary for math IIC?</p>
<p>precalc as in trig? that's all i had, and made an 800... nothing really past trig concepts on there...</p>
<p>I took Algebra II/trig this year, and as a sophomore I'm taking precalculus.</p>
<p>Oh, if it's nothing beyond trig, then I'll be fine. Thanks, I just didn't know what topics were on there. I'm not a stellar math student so I was wondering.</p>
<p>I would say take it at the end of your sophomore year. The test goes up to some pre-calculus. I took it during this June SAT and just finished my Pre-Calc class and got a 800 as a sophomore.</p>
<p>Do any of the testings have easier/harder curves than others?</p>
<p>Math IIC has easier curves than Math IC so I'm definitely going with the former.</p>
<p>i took it while i was in precalc and honestly...the second semester of my class was not even covered...the main thing is trig which you should finish in january or so of the school year</p>
<p>i never did precalculus and still did fine..got a 790</p>
<p>you should do precalc before taking the math II. However, i highly recommend you wait until the end of junior year after taking calc AB (or maybe BC if you decide to do that) before taking math II.</p>
<p>^ Wrong. There is no calculus on the test. And by the time you've finished calc AB, you've forgotten a bunch of precalc.</p>
<p>I know theres no calc on it, notice I never said there was in my previous post. i just think that the harder calc makes precalc seem easier. I took the test twice, once after precalc (630), and once after calc AB (800), with no review either time except a few practice tests. so i think my results speak for something.</p>
<p>There are only a couple of precalc concepts you might forget (polar coord, matrices, vectors are all i can think of). There is a strong emphasis on trig and a good amount of focus on limits in calc AB so you won't forget trig identities and you'll be prepared for the limit problem on the math II.</p>
<p>meadow36, did you do any sort of prep?</p>
<p>im taking precalc next year, and i want to take math 2...</p>
<p>actually no. Not seriously at least. The week before I took a couple of practice tests from RUSH to see the worst types of questions..for trig I used a ti-83 and the one vector problem I got wrong...go figure. Although my parents might make be retake...augh.</p>
<p>It's completely pointless to wait until you've taken calc to take math II. Whether calculus is more difficult than precalc is irrelevant - you'll still forget precalc concepts after a year of calculus. It takes all of ten minutes to review the basic trig identities you need for the test and how to do basic limit problems.</p>
<p>Thats the problem for me. I'm an internation and I'm transferring to Phillips Academy Andover as a rising sophomore and I had never heard of the SATs etc but I'm going to be taking Calc BC. So by the time I can register for the next SAT II for Math IIC I'd be finished with Calc BC (its only a year long course) and I need MathII for MIT etc. So I'm wondering does anyone know a textbook (not a review book like PR) which covers everything for SAT Math II because I am the type of student that learns by doing as many questions as possible as opposed to reading notes from PR. </p>
<p>Like basically a Pre-calc Trigonometry included textbook that will have all the concepts and questions needed for SAT Math II (I'm assuming the text book will also incorporate stuff simpler then Pre-Calc Trig such as Algebra and Geometry) </p>
<p>Thanks guys</p>
<p>Wow, this thread's still going on?</p>
<p>Yeah. I'll take it end of soph year, and looks like you don't even have to prep. W/e.</p>
<p>Barrons..its like a mini text book that focuses on prep...also its questions are much harder than the real test</p>
<p>Barron's is only good if you MUST, MUST, MUST have an 800.</p>
<p>As for textbooks, my precalc class used this
Amazon.com:</a> Advanced Mathematics: Precalculus With Discrete Mathematics and Data Analysis: Richard G. Brown: Books</p>
<p>I really liked it. Many problems of varying difficulty (A, B, and C level) and the lessons were clear and well written.</p>