<p>Are the practice tests in the Barron’s book harder than the actual test?</p>
<p>whats a good way to study for barrons?</p>
<p>Don’t bother with Barrons. It has nothing to do with the real test. You study for Barrons, you’ll end up studying for a totally different test. It has no similarities to the real thing.</p>
<p>^ Ignore this.</p>
<p>Barron’s is excellent review, and the tests are certainly harder, but there are some hard questions on the US History SAT II anyways. But instead of only having a few hard questions, Barron’s is mostly hard questions. Why practice with the easy ones?</p>
<p>Moreover, while Sparknotes is nice for tests, it has a few mistakes in each test that I noticed. Beware. I would guess there are ~3 per test, so your score is probably ± 30.</p>
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<p>Why practice with irrelevant AND hard questions? Why practice with Barron’s?</p>
<p>The questions in the Barron’s SAT II USH book are not only hard but also irrelevant. </p>
<p>Just as there is no point in practicing soccer with a baseball, there is no point in taking the Barron’s tests. Playing soccer with a baseball is one, hard, and two, doesn’t help you at all with playing soccer properly. </p>
<p>If you really wanted to up your soccer skills, you’d play against someone much better than you, not a ball much smaller than a soccer ball. Sure, the baseball would make a game of soccer a LOT harder, but … harder in the wrong way. </p>
<p>If you really wanted to get a good score on the SAT II USH test, you’d get another book.</p>
<p>800 in USH.</p>
<p>… I never said they were irrelevant. (And they really aren’t) On the contrary; I thought the questions seemed similar to the “Hard” rated questions on the official practice SAT II.</p>
<p>Also 800 in USH… </p>
<p>Are you sore about not getting a perfect on the practice exams?</p>
<p>When I was studying for the AP test, and in turn for the Subject test as well, I swore by the review book distributed by AmscoPub. It appealed to me because it wasn’t fluffy and was straight to the point.</p>
<p>I strongly suggest it.</p>
<p>[Here’s</a> a link.](<a href=“http://amscopub.com/price_list_book_information/price_list_info.html?CM=Prod&CID=19&PID=120"]Here’s”>http://amscopub.com/price_list_book_information/price_list_info.html?CM=Prod&CID=19&PID=120)</p>
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<p>Correct. I said they were irrelevant. </p>
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<p>I saw a question about Gaddafi in the Barron’s book. Funny how even my textbook (The American Pageant) doesn’t mention Gaddafi. </p>
<p>I think that’s a hint that the tests are irrelevant. </p>
<p>Not to mention the fact that I wasted 2 hours of my life taking 2 Barron’s test and feeling that neither of the Barron’s tests helped me at all after taking the actual SAT II test. </p>
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<p>Lol.</p>
<p>Did you even take an official practice SAT II?</p>
<p>Nowhere in any official practice SAT II USH exam are questions labeled “hard.” This includes the answer key. </p>
<p>Lol. </p>
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<p>Nice ad hominem. </p>
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<p>Lol.</p>
<p>There are multiple ways to skin a cat. </p>
<p>So you’re proud of taking the way that involved a toothpick, eh?</p>
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<p>Yes, it was a College Board packet that my GC gave me; ~15 questions per subject; each one with a difficulty rating at the end of the section. Not a full test, of course, but helpful for testing the water.</p>
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<p>Ah, and you are certainly wiser than the people who wrote Barron’s.</p>
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<p>Nah, just find it amusing that you use your score to validate your argument.</p>
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<p>WOW, ONE WHOLE QUESTION? Seriously, Gaddafi is pertinent to American history. Do you just care about a score, not knowledge? Like everyone else on CC…</p>
<p>Anyways, did you ever think that this way their review book can still be useful in a few decades when CollegeBoard’s US History catches up with what right now is US History? Besides, the CollegeBoard could change the exam whenever they want to add contemporary USH. Barron’s isn’t “The Official” review, so they don’t know.</p>
<p>Anyways IceQube, you come off as a gigantic ******bag, so I won’t argue with you any more. I just hope the OP picks a review guide that works for them; and ignores that Barron’s was insufficient for the mighty IceQube. Really, even if the tests are hard</p>
<p>@AustroHungarian I got the Essential Content a few days after I started this thread but thanks anyways! I always knew Barrons was crap…</p>
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<p>You’ll be a believer after taking the SAT II USH exam :).</p>
<p>I bought Kapplan and Barrons USH books. I hate barrons. I prefer Kapplan, but I found the test way too easy. I started preparing the test too weeks ago and I got a 720 and when I tried SparkNotes I was about to cry. By the way, I´m from Argentina, so all I knew from USH was that Washington was the first president and that the Wall Street Crash was in 1929. All new…</p>