<p>Hey! I'm taking the Math IIC on november 4th. You October punks have any advice for me? What did u wish you had studied more on that was on the test? Any suprises about what was not on/on?</p>
<p>no surprises</p>
<p>the hard questions were surprisingly easy, and the easy questions were surprisingly a little harder than easy but still easy</p>
<p>Just know the types of questions you'll be asked and you'll do fine. Know how to solve those questions even if they;re twisted a bit in what they are asking for.</p>
<p>Don't take barron's book too serious</p>
<p>studying from barron's makes me want to cry lol</p>
<p>don't even touch the barron's book</p>
<p>complete waste of time</p>
<p>Do you mean it's too hard, or too easy, or what? I decided to not take the Math II test on saturday because I was doing terribly on the practice tests.</p>
<p>Too hard, people score like 600 then get 700+ on real thing. At least it overpreps you if anything :S</p>
<p>i know someone that gets 600's on every practice test and got 800 on the real thing</p>
<p>i'm also another person that got horrible scores on the barron's and probably got 800 for the october one</p>
<p>getting 600's on barrons means nothing</p>
<p>get the CB MATH I/IIc book and do the practice test, it's a more accurate predictor</p>
<p>I've been doing Barron's practice tests.... Do you think Kaplan is more accurate?</p>
<p>what equations should i have pre set in my calulator that will come up on the test?</p>
<p>takes lots of practice tests
i didnt know the date for late reg had passed after i took oct SAT IIs (french) so now i have to wait till Dec to take 2C</p>
<p>Use barrons book and a TI-89= 700+ basically guranteed if you get 600+ on each barrons test and figure your mistakes out.</p>
<p>were there vector questions? i did these in pre calc but i dont remember them at all. should i go back and learn them again or is this a waste of time?</p>
<p>Does the test cover matrices?</p>
<p>not really any vectors nor matrices.</p>
<p>Should I memorize all trig identities?</p>
<p>You should, but only the basic ones will probably show up. It isn't that hard to memorize them all, and it would be pretty bad to miss an otherwise very easy question just because you didn't cover the half-angle identities.</p>
<p>Overall, don't overfocus. All the prep books prepare you really well for using formulas, but the test itself invovles a lot of mathematical thought that a list of formulas won't help you with. Sleep a lot, and don't study anything the night before (or morning of) the exam. Try not to even think about math. Even as you sit in the exam room, think about anything besides the test, and certainly don't "power study." If you look over specific material that soon before the exam, it above everything else you've studied and everything else you know about math will be at the front of your mind. Then, during the test, you won't be able to draw from the rest of your knowledge as easily because your mind will keep on wanting to jump to what you just studied.</p>
<p>That's my theory, anyway.</p>
<p>So definitely no complex matrices or vectors (components, Cramer's rule, determinants?)</p>
<p>How in depth are conics? And sets?</p>
<p>I remember there were a couple probability questions. But if you are talking about AUB or A-B, i don't think there is any</p>