<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>I was looking at all the old threads, and people kept saying how much harder the Barron's SAT Math Level 2 (10th edition) was much harder than the real test. </p>
<p>Is this still true in 2013/2014? I just did a Barron's test and found it relatively easy (personally found it clearer than the Princeton Review practice test). </p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Would anyone who actually used the Barron’s practice tests and did the actual test like to comment?</p>
<p>Can’t speak for SAT Subjects, but I know that with ACT and SAT books, Barrons’ tends to be more difficult. </p>
<p>@TheDidactic - Fair enough, thanks. Hopefully that is true for this as well.</p>
<p>I used Barron’s in preparation for my Math II test, and I took it during the last administration (October). While I won’t get my scores back until Tuesday, I will say that I found the actual test much, much easier than the Barron’s tests.</p>
<p>@Elizabeth1315 - Awesome. I was really hoping that was the case.</p>
<p>In terms of style of questions, what did you think was different between Barron’s and the real test?</p>
<p>I had the baron’s book. Don’t use Barron’s. Mostly because it makes you overanalyze each question.</p>
<p>@Interact Recommendations?</p>
<p>I too used Barron’s, and found the October 2014 test to be significantly easier. I got in the low 700’s or high 600’s in Barron’s (can’t remember which), and I got a 780 on the real test. I’d say the primary difference is the real test just had simpler questions on it. Who knows, though, maybe the real test just happened to test over all the material I actually remembered. Also helping me on the real deal was my better ability to focus on the actual test, which may invalidate these differences entirely. </p>
<p>@Chem921 - Thanks for the insight. </p>
<p>Well, I’m preparing for Math2 to take it in NOV.
What I found is that Princeton’s tests are thoroughly more vague than Barrons’ tests; I don’t know why but Barons are mch easier than Princeton’s. However, I read that McGraw-Hill tests (8) are pretty similar to the real SAT 2 test; I took 4 of them and they are more moderate - in the number of 5-level questions- than Barrons’s.
I recommend you to give the McGraw-Hill tests a try </p>
<p>@IMTLD1 - I agree! I found the Princeton tests weird. The Barron’s tests are apparently hard, but they are so clear compared to the Princeton tests. </p>
<p>Would you mind showing me where people said the McGraw-Hill tests were similar? Usually McGraw-Hill make their tests easier than the real versions of a test.</p>
<p>I don’t remember where, but a test taker said that he used to left 2-3 on McGraw-Hill and he did the same on real test. You can try them by yourself. (Torrent)
Seriously, I’m not promoting </p>
<p>@IMTLD1 - Don’t worry! I wasn’t accusing you of promoting, I just wanted to get a second opinion that’s all.</p>
<p>I personally used Barron’s and it was much more difficult than the actual test. I constantly got high 600s or low 700s on Barron’s practices which scared me a lot before the real test. The only benefit of using Barron’s was that you learn to go faster so in the end you should have some time to check work. If you’re doing well in Barron’s though, you should be fine.</p>
<p>@xc4life - Like you, the highest I got on Barron’s is a 750 so I’m stressed out. I always mess up the probability questions (I didn’t learn it in the Canadian curriculum, I’ve been trying to learn it myself).</p>