<p>I'm scoring pretty badly on the PR Biology Tests. I feel like I know my stuff, and I've studied, but I am still getting in the 600s. How do the PR tests compare to the real SAT Biology E/M?</p>
<p>Also - I have heard that Barron's is a really good study book, but none of the bookstores in my city carry it (ridiculous, I know). What is the next best crash course book/test book you would recommend? I'm feeling desperate and distraught.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>From my personal experience last year, my score from Princeton Review was pretty accurate (I scored about 660-680, and got a 670! the first 5 questions were almost exactly the same on my test).</p>
<p>As for review books, the Princeton Review covers 95% + of what you need to know
Barrons-covers like 50% too much, my friends got it and couldn't focus on what was important-mitosis is like a paragraph, while the food pyramid was like a whole chapter! so I wouldn't freak over not getting it
Kaplan-overly hard from what I've heard, not the best for short-term studying</p>
<p>I scored 680-720 ish on their tests, then got a 650...so I guess it depends.</p>
<p>So for the biology E/M test, princeton review would be the best practice book? What about Arco, Kaplan?</p>
<p>Kaplan tests are WAY harder than PR...there is so much more detail. I scored 100 points less on Kaplan...what about anyone else?</p>
<p>do you know what extra stuff is in barron's book that we dont need to know? ( i own the barrons and its a lot of material)</p>
<p>How about the barrons tests?</p>
<p>No idea...didn't use Barron's (and I'm hoping I won't have needed to...)</p>
<p>I'm really counting on PR...I hope it prepared me well (and that I prepared myself well!)</p>
<p>i think i got like 670ish on the princton review, and 630 on the REAL collegeboard one but on the actual test, i got 700 so it all depends.</p>
<p>I really hope Kaplan's is much harder than the real deal. I kept getting ~630 on the Kaplan tests (I got a 5 on the AP exam). I'll find out my score on the real deal some time tomorrow :)</p>
<p>Princeton Review seemed pretty accurate to me. I got 730-740 on the practice tests and scored 750 on the actual. SparkNotes is good as well, got 740 on the last test i took before on the actual one. And it's free! :D PR is probably the most accurate though.</p>
<p>I got a 620-630 on Kaplan. I got a 740 on the actual thing.</p>
<p>i got a 660 or maybe it was 630 on the princeton review test, and then i got a 750 on the real thing. yay.</p>
<p>i think princeton review is the best review books for the SAT. I jammed all my studying into the last week and used nothing else but the princeton review bio. i didn't even take the practice tests, i just selected random questions and see if i did them correctly. i got a 710 on the exam though so i think the summaries in the book are really helpful.</p>
<p>but then again i took biology AP already and so the book was basically all review to me.</p>
<p>oh! and there was a few questions (1 or 2 only) that are THE EXACT SAME questions i did on the princeton review! i swear! haha so i had a few freebie points there.</p>
<p>i also recommend kaplan as a good review book but only for the summaries they give. they go more into the descriptions but the problems seems to be harder. they give the answers (of course) in the back of the book, they explain why the answer is right but they don't explain why the other answers are wrong so i kidna got frustrated with that. haha </p>
<p>barrons, i never used it before but my physcis teacher said that it sucks for every subject so i never tried using it. </p>
<p>good luck! =)</p>