SAT 2 Physics

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Today, I took my first test from the Barron’s book and scored a 750 and omitted 4 answers. I want an 800 and wanted to know the “Barron’s-Official test Equivalence”. I also wanted to know if I should guess answers or omit.

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I took the first barrons test yesterday as well and am also curious about this. Math 2c barrons seems to be much harder than the actual thing but it seems like the physics is pretty easy and possibly just around the same thing… Maybe someone who has taken the real thing could shed some light? & as for skipping questions i dont even guess if its a 50/50 only around 70/30

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Yea. I took my first Math II Barron’s test yesterday and found it extremely hard. Let’s hope someone who took the test replies

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The Barron’s tests are harder than the real thing, but not as much as in Math Level 2. The SAT Physics test is pretty hard by itself (I found it harder than Math L2 and Chemistry), since it’s long and very conceptual. I would personally recommend doing the tests in PR.

For Math L2, Barron’s is good to guarantee an 800 because it overpreps you and the tests improve your time management, but again PR is great.

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@unready Honestly, I’m finding Barrons Math L2 extremely hard. I dont really know how to approach the question. Do you have any idea which book has the most realistic tests?

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@unready I just finished a Princeton Review Physics practice test as you suggested, and got a 760 (In Barrons, I got: 750 and 700)
While I was taking the test, I wasn’t very confident and found it pretty hard but I wanted to know what everyone else thinks about PR.
Would really appreciate it if someone replies.

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@Dodie99 Barron’s Math L2 tests are definitely a LOT harder than the real thing (partly because a lot of the questions require the use of a graphing calculator) so if you can manage to do those then you’re set, but the PR tests are very similar to the real thing.

For physics, if you’re not confident you just have to do a lot of practice tests (PR doesn’t have many, unfortunately) to get the hang of the types of questions asked.