<p>I am taking Math 1 and 2 on Saturday, and I have barely studied. What should I look at to study 6 days before the test?</p>
<p>I went out and bought a Barrons book on Friday and looked over some of it yesterday. If you’re already pretty informed on precalculus I would buy Barrons because while it doesn’t necessarily explain everything concisely, it does go over everything and with a background on most of the concepts you can usually figure all of the problems out. Plus, it’s apparently notoriously harder so that was a plus in my opinion. I’ve heard that Princeton Review is much better at explaining things though, but it just doesn’t go into as much depth as Barrons does.</p>
<p>I started studying 6 days before for the May test as well! My whole plan: programmed formulas I didn’t have time to memorize in my calculator (I just didn’t know the double angle identities… and there was a question on the test with one, so it was good I programmed it), each night (Sunday-Friday) I took a practice test to get a feel for the timing piece. I took the two official college board ones as well as the 4 from Kaplan. I also did many of the mini diagnostic tests in Kaplan. I got an 800, so as long as you already know the basics of pre-calc I found 6 days the perfect amount of studying.</p>
<p>^ That’s good advice. I didn’t really study but I would recomend using sparknotes rather buying a book. They have five practice tests which are reasonably accurate in difficulty and a book online. You just need to register (it’s free).</p>
<p>@dancingmac, are you allowed to program things into your calculator?</p>
<p>i always wondered that because i didnt see anything in the agreement forbidding it. lol</p>
<p>yes you can program things. my barrons review book even teaches you how to lol</p>
<p>i only did 3 practice tests the day before (on friday) from kaplan. i would only advise doing barron’s a couple days before, not the day before because if you do poorly, it may lower your confidence. do easy tests the day before to boost it because you’ll probably do well after doing rigorous barron’s tests. i got an 800 btw from only studying 1 day. i would also suggest programming stuff.</p>
<p>hahaha ok that is awesome. So you are in fact allowed to cheat to an extent.</p>
<p>anyone want to let me know how to formally “program”?</p>
<p>because i just thought to enter equations into the “Y=” screen and save them there so i could write them down on the test. haha i am so happy right now</p>
<p>deng… how about a TI-89? I know the Barrons book only goes over the TI-84.
Am I screwed…?!</p>