<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>My D is going to take MAthIIC next week. Right now, she only finished up to 38 questions when she did one practice test from Barron's book. She spent too much time on calculator. It seems that she wants to use calculator on every question. </p>
<p>Can anyone share strategy for taking MathIIC or offer some advice?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help and sharing.</p>
<p>Barron’s, from what I hear, is pretty difficult and most of the questions there will be harder than what will appear on the test. She shouldn’t use the calculator on every question though- tell her that if it only requires a simple calculation, do it in her head. </p>
<p>Also, tell her to keep track of time and make sure to bring a watch so she can do as such. :)</p>
<p>DO NOT.
i repeat DO NOT use your calculator until you need it.
figure everything out until you really need it, this will eliminate typos.</p>
<p>for example, what is the limit of X^5+4x^3+17x^3 as X approaches 1?
this may look hard, but using a calculator for this would be useless.
you have to remmeber that 1 to any power would be 1
so just look at the coef’s 1+4+17= 23</p>
<p>the trick is to figure out connections.</p>
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<p>i think its 22, and im pretty darn good at math, but w/e</p>
<p>yo anhtimmy and foryourownpride do u have a simple formula for calculating limits? and btw the answer is 22 i checked on calculator</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>For limits, try direct substitution. If that doesn’t work (e.g. it makes the function undefined), try factoring and canceling:</p>
<p>lim x–>2 (x^2-4)/(x-2) can be rewritten as (x+2)(x-2)/(x-2). Cancel the x-2, plug in 2, and you get 4. </p>
<p>If factoring doesn’t work, graph the function on your calculator, but be careful as the calculator isn’t 100% accurate. It might show the above function as continuous over all real numbers even though it isn’t. Last resort, L’hopital (calc people know what I mean).</p>
<p>The only times I really used my calculator was to graph and evaluate functions, solve sequences, solve tedious algebra, use the “store” functions, and use my programs.</p>
<p>lol miscalculation my apologies.
for the ti89, do this
lim((equation),X, the limit), this is fast and easy.
but for the LONG equations, i suggest you factor it out, its faster to plug in a reduced formula then enter the whole shebang and risk a typo.</p>
<p>Thanks for all sharings and advices.</p>
<p>Last night, my daughter took the Practice TEst 4 of Barron’s (8th edition without CDROM) and she got raw score 25 which means only 600. I am worried whether she needs to take it in June. I hope that she can score at least 750 on it. Can anyone offer final week strategy and advice?</p>
<p>Thank you as always.</p>
<p>if you truly want to know where your D is, tell her o take a practice test from CB.</p>
<p>The Barrons SAT math subject 2 book is on the hard side (and the suggested formula list is way overkill, in my opinion). Perhaps useful for strong students who are already well-prepared (like quite a few reading this very thread :))</p>
<p>Anyway, for your D I would get the collegeboard book (called the “official subject test math level 1 & 2 study guide”) and take the two tests, the move on to something like the Princeton Review book, which is a decent study guide and has reasonably appropriate tests…</p>
<p>You should take Test 1 from CB before you start studying. Then, you should use Barron’s/Kaplan/PR to study and do practice problems (there’s really a limited number of questions they can ask). Then you should take the Barron’s Tests to practice (these are crazy hard), then before you take the real test, you should take the 2nd CB Test along with other tests (if you feel like it’s necessary). This should be ample preparation. I’ve had many students score 800 using this strategy.</p>
<p>just curious
are you allowed to use 2 calculators during the test?
my scientific calculator can display answers in fractions and pi’s, which is very useful
but then i still need my graphing calculator to do graphing calculator stuff</p>
<p>why not get the ti89 titanium? it does both lol</p>
<p>Just use your graphing calculator, and if the answer is in terms of pi, just divide your answer by pi to find the coefficient.</p>
<p>lol answer to above is 22 not 23. Yeah, just dont use calc until u need to.</p>
<p>How hard is the Princeton Review when it comes to SAT II Math?</p>
<p>what are some of the more obscure topics that are definitely tested on the real thing?
i know for sure some of them include matrices, standard deviation</p>
<p>guys for limits just use L’Hopital’s rule come on lol</p>
<p>^ L’hopital’s rule doesn’t work for EVERY limit problem. Besides, most people taking math II won’t have had calculus and trying to teach them a rule that requires a basic understanding of limits and derivatives isn’t the best idea.</p>