<p>Princeton Review:
Barrons:
Sparknotes:</p>
<p>Please don't bother with Kaplan because their tests are absolutely inaccurate and contain superflous information which is not needed on the exam. The Barron's and Sparknotes are also terrible, but better than Kaplan in my opinion.</p>
<p>I found Sparknotes’ scoring to be terrible, but the content in them was VERY close to that in the real test. Kaplan was also helpful, but it did have some superfluous stuff.</p>
<p>Princeton Review: 680, 780, 720
Sparknotes: 620, 680, 650
College Board Practice Test: 730</p>
<p>Real thing: 800</p>
<p>yay finally a post</p>
<p>my scores
princeton review: 750,770,680
Sparknnotes: 550,570,still have to take third
Collegeboard:750 from the 1998 edition book, and 750 from the new edition.</p>
<p>Real thing: A Columbia hopeful hoping for a 780+</p>
<p>lolcats, what did your specifically do to get an 800?</p>
<p>^ took all those practice tests, plus the Kaplan ones, and wrote down on index cards every single mistake I made :)</p>
<p>just finished taking the last sparknotes test and scored a 540… 590 if you don’t don’t count the penalty for wrong answers. Well I’m just gonna have to force myself to go over all my mistakes despite this discouraging score</p>
<p>Kaplan books, in my opinion, are not so great to use for practice tests. I have always found that their practice tests do not really match the content of the test (for both SAT chemistry and the SAT) and some questions were not worded clearly. I scored significantly lower on them than I did on the real tests. However, they do provide helpful information. For chemistry, I liked the Princeton review for the practice tests. They were a good predictor of my score.</p>
<p>Poeme, can you plz post your kaplan scores? It would be a great help.</p>
<p>I gave wrong scores for SPARKNOTES</p>
<p>i ACTUALLY had 570 on the second test, 540 on the third test and just finished taking the FIRST on and scored a 630.</p>
<p>My Kaplan scores are all over the place, I miss from 3 to 13
My Sparknotes averages to a 760
My barrons is about 790 or 800</p>
<p>I really want an 800</p>
<p>Sparknotes: 680, 720
College Board (from big blue book): 770</p>
<p>The real thing: ???</p>
<p>Sparknotes: 720 680 =((
Kaplan: 720
still doing practise tests
hope for a 800 :(</p>
<p>PR: 680
Sparknotes: In the mid-500s
Barrons: 650-700
Real Thing: 650
I’m not sure if this can be counted as completely accurate because I didn’t get to really study before the first time I took it.</p>
<p>Princeton Review: 700, 630
McGraw Hill: 670
Sparknotes: 490 (their tests are horrible)
Barron’s: 650, 670 (night before the real test)</p>
<p>REAL: 750</p>
<p>I highly recommend Barron’s. They explain everything so thoroughly, and even though people say it’s harder than other books, it’s still relatively simple (especially if you’re in AP Chem).</p>
<p>Barrons 700+</p>
<p>Real 800</p>
<p>Princeton: 700-750</p>
<p>Real: 790</p>
<p>PR: 780,770,730
Collegeboard Real: 750 (with luck –> some descriptive chem questions I was lucky)</p>
<p>Do you think I could manage an 800?</p>
<p>Sparknotes: 640,660, 660
Real: 700</p>
<p>Princeton Review: Don’t remember. Probably around 730.
Barrons: 730/730/something.
Sparknotes: 750/680/670.
Kaplan: . . . Like 730/740/760?
Collegeboard: 790.</p>
<p>Real thing: 800.</p>