<p>Anyways, I bought the Barron's SAT II Math IIC review book, because I heard that it is the best. When I first got it a month ago, I took the diagnostic test, and got a raw score of 41. Over the past month I read the first two chapters and did their exercises, and today I took the first model test. I was very surprised because I got a 28 this time (although I only missed one question that was covered in Chpt. 1 and 2). So is the diagnostic test supposed to be a lot easier than the model tests, or did I just screw up really badly? Also, for the Barron's book, do the model tests accurately portray the difficulty of the SAT II Math IIC exam?</p>
<p>The diagnostic might be slightly easier. But most probaby, you just screwed on the 2nd test. :)</p>
<p>Barron's Math L2, its prep material and its tests inclusive, do NOT reflect the real difficulty of the test. They are harder. At least this is what everybody says.;)</p>
<p>I'm taking the May sSAT, in Math L2 and I hope "what everybody says" is true.</p>
<p>for SAT IIC, at least, Barrons is much harder. Towards the 30-40 range are questions you would be asked in the 40-50 range on the real test (test increases by difficulty). Also, the 40-50 questions on the Barrons are similar to #50 questions that they may ask you on the test. My advice on taking the SAT IIC is:
-take Barrons (don't score; just see what u got wrong so that u can improve on it during the real test; don't take scores seriously)
-take Kaplans tests (they are really accurate) OR/AND Princeton review tests
-take the 2 new real math IIC tests they published this year in the collegeboard real SAT II Subject tests in Math book.</p>
<p>With the Kaplans, PR, and REAL Tests, make sure you ask yourself why you got wrong silly mistakes (I'm pretty sure you'll make at least some; I' know I made a lot of embarrassing ones). That way, you'll be better prepared for exam questions, which don't ask you questions as hard as Barrons but ask 3-4 questions that are tricky. By that I mean it's not hard, but you must watch out for exceptions to general I,II,III problems, make sure they're asking for yrds and not ft, etc. stuff like that.
BTW don't go thru these tests in a week w/out reviewing the answers; set out 1hr per week for test (2hr/week if you're in a rush) and take them, then take at least 1 day (set out 1hr for each test) to go over the answers. Don't rush the looking-back part to see what u got wrong; they contain valuable lessons, and you will be rewarded when test time comes.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the info! I just went through all of the solutions, and yes, I did make a bunch of dumb mistakes. However, I still believe that the model tests are harder than the diagnostic.</p>
<p>Also, how can I calculate the real score (200-800) from the raw score?</p>