<p>I just took Math level 2.
It was harder than I had expected.<br>
I got 750-800 for all of my 10 practice tests.<br>
but I'm sure I got 2 wrong this time. </p>
<p>How many mistakes can I make to get an 800?
Is the limit really 4 mistakes? or does it depend on every test?</p>
<p>And also, I'm Japanese. I want to go to an ivy league school or Stanford.<br>
Should I take three subject tests so that I can compensate my reasoning?
I scored 1800 on my reasoning but I'm studying to get at least 2000 by May.</p>
<p>Crap, it was hard? And here I was, thinking I could get a reasonably good score… there goes the little bit of confidence I was hoping to depend on to do well =_=</p>
<p>The amount of questions you can get for an 800 varies with each test. If the test really was harder than usual, the curve will also be easier- I hope.</p>
<p>I personally don’t think you should take 3 reasoning unless you think you can do well on all of them, or unless a school you’re applying to requires three tests. Definitely raise your SAT I score more- I’d say that if you were applying to places like Stanford, it needs to be 2100-2200+ in order to be par with those of others Goodluck!</p>
<p>It was harder than I imagined, but maybe it was because I was super nervous since it was my first time to take the subject test.
I really hope that the curve is easier this time. 800 looks way better than 790. You know what I mean?</p>
<p>2100 on the reasoning will be a great challenge but i’ll do my best!
Thanks for the reply:)</p>
<p>I was not expecting it to be like that, lol. ■■■, didn’t even get to check my answers.</p>
<p>I just feel like there were far too many questions that required time to solve. There were very few ‘gimme’ questions after the first 30 or so. </p>
<p>If I fail this, it’s going to be sooo embarrassing lol.</p>
<p>I thought it was easier than expected…maybe because I studied from Barrons?
I left only 4 blank. If I get 8 wrong, i can still expect an 800, if the equation in Barrons’ book is accurate.</p>
<p>are we allowed to discuss questions on the January 2010 yet?
and standfordpanda, if you skip 4 and get another 8 wrong, i don’t think you would still get an 800 beccause you would have a raw score of 36/50.</p>
<p>I studied from barrons as well and the actual test was definitely easier (which was expected) but I still felt a few of the questions were challenging, and the entire test was not as easy as I expected it to be.</p>
<p>Same here! I learned from the Barron’s book as well. and I actually believe the one today is even harder than Barrons practice test. And the old practice test of Collegeboard was definately easier.</p>
<p>I thought this test was quite hard compared my practice tests and the Math Level II test that I took last month. Hopefully the curve is very nice. And I agree with Vaeliant that there were too many questions that took time to solve.</p>
<p>okay but what if you have a raw of like 38? is that even 700s? i left 12 blank, but hopefully i got the answered ones correct…
last time i got 8 blank and a 720. is that considered a “good curve”?</p>
<p>Well for your skip 8 test, the first 5-6 questions you skipped were made up by the curve, meaning that the next 2-3 that you skipped brought you down 80 points. But that’s assuming that you got the other 42 questions you answered all right. Unless you know your exact raw score, it’s hard to determine the curve.</p>
<p>For the test that you skipped 12 on, it’s really hard to predict the curve because it depends on how other test takers did… You can always cancel your score if you are unhappy with it</p>
<p>This is from Spark Notes. I skipped 8 and at the most got 4 wrong, according to this I’m looking at a 740. I thought the test wasn’t that hard, pacing is my only problem.</p>
Goodluck!</p>