<p>I am going to take the Math IIC exam in October. Last week I was trying to decide what books I needed to prepare for the exam (I was thinking about Barrons and Meylani, but I thought they might be too difficult since I havent completed precalc yet) To give me an idea of how I currently stood with no review, I went to my library and picked up the New Kaplan Math Level 2 Review book (2005-2006) just to take a practice test or too. Last night I sat down to take it and much to my surprise I scored and 800! My raw score was 45 out of 50 which, according to Kaplan's chart, is the lowest you can get an 800 with. Now, I was wondering are Kaplan's tests similar to, more difficult or easier than the actual exam. Also, how should I prepare for the exam in October? Thanks.</p>
<p>a kaplan test is pretty accurate. barrons and Meylani both are too hard in relation to the actual SAT II</p>
<p>Damn.... Did the kaplan practice test A and got a raw score of 10! I havent done precalc but still.. that score is sooooo low.. this is discouraging..</p>
<p>jai6638 -
the Math IIC covers specific material - if you haven't covered the material, you shouldn't expect to do well on it.</p>
<p>I finished the Kaplan book and read some of the Sparknotes chapters... now I'm working on the Barron's book. I just took another practice test, and I gotta say it's very discouraging to get such low scores. I hope what everyone says about Barron's being harder than the real thing is correct.</p>
<p>What was your score on kaplan? </p>
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<p>well the only thing I havent covered much is coordinate geometry and some trignometry so I should still have gotten a decent score.</p>
<p>i wish i had reviewed. i took iic's in june at the end of my pre-calc class. i got an A- in pre-calc for the year and a 700 on the iic's. i should have done better and easily could have if i had reviewed. there were many many problems i looked at and just didnt remember formulas, or i could remember doing them in class and just couldnt remember specifics. i felt less than fabulous after finishing it. i would STRONGLy recomend reviewing. good luck everyone!</p>
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<p>I don't remember the raw score, but scaled was 650. This was after finishing the book. Barron's however... I'm getting raw scores in the 25-28 range.</p>
<p>Do any of the prep books go over all the material needed in a review format?</p>
<p>how accurate are the sparknotes tests online at sparknotes.com?</p>
<p>I have not tried them yet. I vouch for their books only.
I'll try to check them soon and post here what I'll have found.</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>Sparknotes books are good...I was in Pre-Calc and therefore needed to learn a lot of things before the test. The tests were accurate and I ended up with my target score of a 750. If anyone has any questions you can ask me.</p>
<p>Hey gcf101! I'm back from a vacation I went on. In my opinion, you should buy barron's and meylani's and work through sparknotes FOR FREE online. Sign in as different people to get all 3 of the tests because you get 1 test free for each new account. Barron's (harder than the real thing) and sparknotes (a touch easier) give you review and practice and meylani gives you realistic (but harder) practice. Also, buy the real sat II book and take the test in it once you finished reviewing; you will see how easy it is. If you want other books why not buy them, but these books are great. Also, barron's has a good graphing calc section that teaches you how to program and gives you examples (so you can program more programs from what you learned).</p>
<p>I find barron tough !!!!which is the best book for math 2 c??I am aiming for 700+.</p>
<p>As many others have said, I don't know myself, don't use Barrons because they over do it to like the 50th power. </p>
<p>The SAT II Math IIC test, I would say, is easier than SAT I Math because there are no "trick" questions. It's either you know how to do it and do it right, or not, unlike the SAT I where they're like... "We'll throw 3 negatives, tell you to find the unshaded area, unclear wording, and a weird picture at you... in the same problem!"</p>
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<p>That's interesting - the Sparknotes book that you guys are recommending got horrible reviews on Amazon </p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/dbd3k%5B/url%5D">http://tinyurl.com/dbd3k</a></p>
<p>Compared to the PR one...</p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/a7bvy%5B/url%5D">http://tinyurl.com/a7bvy</a></p>
<p>"The SAT II Math IIC test, I would say, is easier than SAT I Math because there are no "trick" questions. It's either you know how to do it and do it right, or not, unlike the SAT I where they're like... "We'll throw 3 negatives, tell you to find the unshaded area, unclear wording, and a weird picture at you... in the same problem!"
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That is not true, or at least not as much, of the new SAT. I found the SAT I much easier. On the SAT I I always felt I would able to complete every problem where on the IIC I knew I would leave a few blank. The SAT I is more like the math IC. If you are good at higher math but make a few mistakes here and there, you will do well on the IIC but not as well on the SAT I math. If you do not make mistakes, then you will do well on the SAT I math too. I aced both the SAT I and IIC math (on a retake).</p>
<p>I agree with HiWei. And then, even if you DO know what you're doing, if you make two or three mistakes, you end up with a 750. Meanwhile, if you make two or three mistakes on IIC, you end up with an 800.</p>
<p>How are the practice test of sparknotes compare to the real thing</p>