<p>Which book has the most accurate tests (not counting CB's book)? I have the Sparknotes and Barron's (2003) books. Barron's is pretty bad overall, but I'm not sure about the accuracy of the tests. I take classes at Elite and they give us tests from random books, sometimes hard and sometimes easy. I took a test from the Sparknotes book and found it harder than any of the tests taken at Elite. I've heard that PR has some pretty bad tests, plus I've never been a fan of PR to begin with. ;[</p>
<p>Any opinions appreciated. I don't really care about the subject material in the actual book, since most of them are similar anyway. Just the tests that mattter.</p>
<p>Well, let me say that I find the Barron's very useful in actually preparing you, whereas some things on the Sparknotes are blatantly wrong.</p>
<p>Like the electric potential difference across two points parallel to the electric field of a point charge is not V = Qed, since the field is not uniform. But, Sparknotes is just wrong about this.</p>
<p>I use Barron's AP book, which is so beastly. The integration and stuff... major help. But I don't think you need to know integration for the SAT II. No free response. Lucky. Too bad there's optics, thermo., and quantum. Blah...</p>
<p>However, I'd say the practice tests on Sparknotes are fine...</p>
<p>Like the electric potential difference across two points parallel to the electric field of a point charge is not V = Qed, since the field is not uniform. But, Sparknotes is just wrong about this.</p>
<p>I use Barron's AP book, which is so beastly. The integration and stuff... major help. But I don't think you need to know integration for the SAT II. No free response. Lucky. Too bad there's optics, thermo., and quantum. Blah...</p>
<p>However, I'd say the practice tests on Sparknotes are fine...
Barron's SAT book has a lot of typos and misleading information. In their optics section, one of the "fast-info" tables has a typo that really threw me off at first. That's only one example as well, and their tests are pretty lame. It has a lot of random questions I doubt I'll see on the actual test. However, I have to agree that their AP book is incredible. I use it a lot.</p>
<p>@Foil - I don't think so...maybe if you login to their site or something, you can get access but iono</p>
Is there a way to get the Sparknotes practice tests for free?
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<p>Yeah. By creating random accounts at their website(can also be done with non existing e-mail addresses), and using the free test that Sparknotes gives freely for each account. Then repeat the procedure for every new test you want to access.</p>