@mathpro You will not require anything more than the basics of statistics. You are fine.
@mathpro: You seem fine, but if I were you, I would take the rest of the Barrons tests just in case. I also scored an 800 on the Barrons diagnostic test and CB tests, but on the other Barrons tests (model tests) I scored mid-700s and subsequently learned a lot from my mistakes. The model tests are way harder in my opinion.
Alright. Thanks!
I’m taking it in June also.
I took two practice tests I found online that didn’t have scoring guidelines but we’re extremely difficult. I timed myself and only got like 25 right on each.
I just took the collegeboard one and thought it was too easy. I got 48 right, 1 wrong, and 1 omit (I don’t know matrices).
Can someone send me reliable tests? Is the collegeboard reliable? I feel like I need an 800 on this for Ivys, especially since I’m STEM as hell.
Please dm me anything you guys find useful, preferably reliable practice or released tests
No you don’t
^Most people who take this subject test who make it into ivies have 800’s. I think not having an 800 would put you at a big disadvantage specifically for engineering or math related majors.
^ Applicants get accepted with 750’s and rejected with 800’s. I would not stress about applying with a 790 (or a 750 or a 730) vs. 800. There are many, many other important elements to the application that will require time spent.
I took the Collegeboard test with no prior prep and got a 750 (8 wrong, 1 omit). Could I get an 800 with just one week of prep? I am starting to go through Barron’s and focus on the concepts that I missed.
Hey, I’m taking this test next week and I got a 800 on the collegeboard practice test(3 wrong, 0 omits)
but I’ve gotten 680, 690 on John Chung’s Practice tests.
Do you think I can get an 800 next week? I NEED a 800. Thanks.
@ypmagic sorry forgot to tag you.
@ypmagic: I just took the second CollegeBoard released test and I got an 800. But it was a close 800 because I omitted 5 questions and got 1 question wrong so I got a raw score of 44. Do you think I should be worried about getting an 800 on the real test? I missed the last few questions (40-50), the ones that only 20 percent of test-takers got right, so I know all of the basic concepts. For example, one of the questions I omitted was the one about an indirect proof, which was never mentioned in Barrons prep book.
Yeah that is definitely good enough for an 800. Chungs is much harder and I think I was scoring around where you were and I got a 800
@ypmagic Thanks! But I thought it’s never a good thing to omit on SAT tests if you can eliminate at least one choice, statistically. I missed 3 on the May SAT math and got a 740, so I can see your point there, but still, you can miss 5 and still get an 800, I thought.
Can someone answer my first question? Also, is #41 on Test 2 of the official CollegeBoard book a known fact, or do you have to think of it conceptually during the test?
^Can’t say for sure you are going to get an 800. You gotta have a good test day even if you know everything also.
^So a bit of luck is involved in getting an 800. Well…then I guess I’ll just hope for the best. I know everything, I just hope there aren’t any curveball questions.
Yeah pretty much. For me the first 50 questions were very easy. I answered all but one. The last ten were much more difficult, and took a lot of time. Leave them unanswered if you don’t have any clue. Usually I was able to narrow down answers that were close to what I predicted and guess. For example, there was an answer A=.75 and B=.76. I then just guessed as I knew it had to be one of those two. There are a bunch on the test that you can narrow down to two and then guess.
I also have another question that has popped up on many practice tests I’ve taken. If there is a problem in the form of x^2=a, is the answer both ‘a’ and ‘-a’ or are we just looking for the positive root. I heard it is called the “principle square root”, is that true? I also took a practice test where the answer was the absolute value of ‘a’. So what is the correct answer?
^I think in most cases you would be able to tell which one the question is asking for.
Thank you. Did anyone who took the real test think the released tests were pretty similar?? Or helped at all, or are they totally different?