<p>I am taking the SAT II US History subject test on January 23rd. ive been studying with Barrons (read the book through). Ive been taking the practice tests and have been doing horrible (-35 to -45). I need to know if barron's tests are harder than the actually test, or is Barron's pretty accurate?? any quick tips for me to drastically improve my score? Thanks.</p>
<p>Barron’s is not only harder, it’s WAY overkill. They teach a lot of stuff that’s not needed in the real test; that is, they go a lot more in-depth. Here is part of a [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1063321744-post203.html]post[/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1063321744-post203.html]post[/url</a>] from the “best review books” thread.</p>
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<p>For test curves, you might want to check [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/4220732-post10.html]this[/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/4220732-post10.html]this[/url</a>] post.
Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks a lot Malfunction, this helps tremendously.</p>
<p>For US History… I personally do not recommend using Barron’s. I didn’t like using any of those typical Barron’s, PR, Kaplan or whatever. The summaries just weren’t detailed enough for me, since I was basically the person who forgot everything I learned in APUSH. I hadn’t touched anything US History related from May till November until the day before the SAT2 exam where I skimmed through AMSCO in one night and ended up scraping a 720. (I got a 5 on APUSH exam too.) You can definitely do better than I did.</p>
<p>You still have about 13 days for the test. I suggest you get your hands on an AMSCO now if you don’t already have one and read ALL of it. It covers almost anything that could come up on the APUSH exam or SAT2 US History test. Sit down and actually read & absorb what it says, don’t rush through it. I was able to read all of it in 3 days, so you should be able to read it in 10 days or less. Afterward you can go on sparknotes.com and read through their summaries and do some of their practice tests. Then you’re good. </p>
<p>I never did a full practice test for US History besides looking at a few questions on sparknotes.com just to see if I could answer them. Trust your common sense and instincts when it comes to US history. You should answer or guess every question that you vaguely have an idea of, and only skip if you truly have no idea to the answer at all.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice CuteAccountant ill definitly pick an AMSCO book up. I took the 2 practice tests for Princeton Review’s US history subject test and got a 700 and a 790. Will these scores be relitively accurate to the actual test?</p>