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<p>I studied a little after the 600s. I basically went through part of Barron’s (I covered the first half of Barron’s and stopped at the conics section). </p>
<p>Conics … lol.</p>
<p>^Yeah, basically the only things I don’t really plan on studying (because I’m too lazy lol) are conics, probability, and sequences/series.</p>
<p>Anybody know anything about the McGraw Hill book? I’ve only got 1 test left in Barrons and definitely need more practice and this book is the only one I have.</p>
<p>I don’t feel that bad about conics because on the last official practice test I took there was only one conic question that I didn’t know. I think it might have been the only conics question too 
(unless you count parabolas, which I do know about).</p>
<p>Anyway, does anyone find it odd that the Barron’s Math II book does NOT cover logic? Logic definitely shows up on the Math II exam and is covered by the PR Math II book.</p>
<p>On one of the Barron’s practice tests I took, there was one logic problem dealing with the contrapositive. Other than that, I haven’t seen any logic problems yet. But is the logic section just basically knowing inverse, converse, and contrapositive?</p>
<p>Wait. But the Barron’s review section definitely does not cover logic at all. Why should its tests cover logic? </p>
<p>Or am I wrong - does the Barron’s review section cover logic? If so, what page(s)?</p>
<p>It doesn’t cover logic :(. For every problem on their practice tests, Barron’s writes the corresponding section in which the review of that particular topic is found, but for that one particular problem, there was just an asterisk. So, yeah, no logic review…</p>
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<p>Lol. What practice test was this problem in?</p>
<p>Yeah, programs require a graphing calculator.</p>
<p>^^It was #29 on the second practice test.</p>
<p>I only have dr. chung’s sat ii review book. Does anyone know if it adequately prepares for the test? Or should I buy Barron’s?</p>
<p>Probability ****es me off.</p>
<p>Edit: I guess I should contibute something useful to the thread with each post.</p>
<p>@dot</p>
<p>If you want to get an 800, get Barrons. Chung’s is good but Barrons has thorough explanations within.</p>
<p>Yea, I’ve never learned probability, so that’s usually where I have to skip. I should really just sit down and learn it. It probably wouldn’t take that long and it could get me a bunch of points.</p>
<p>I just finished going through the entire Barron’s review book’s review section in less than two days. Most of it was review, but z-scoring, polar coordinates, and parametrics were new to me. Thank God for AP Calculus giving me all the limit information I could ask for.</p>
<p>I’m feeling good right now. As for the hard (*'d) questions in Barron’s, I find myself doing well on those, but I miss some more basic questions that I’ll catch more as I do practice tests (and actually check my answers, which I haven’t been doing in the exercises).</p>
<p>Aiming for an 800, as I’m sure everyone else is. What should I be scoring on the Barron’s practice tests to be in a good range for an 800?</p>
<p>High 600s or 700s is good for Barrons.</p>
<p>I have Barrons. I want to cry. Seriously.</p>
<p>Barron’s is annoying. I’ve done about 3 tests in it and the problems are extremely hard but I guess they do prepare you well for the test. The conics and other random weird problems are brutal and I usually end up skipping those and scoring 680-720 on Barron’s.</p>
<p>I also have McGrawhill’s Math 2 with 9 tests. Does anyone else have that? I think it is pretty good but it might be a little too easy. I haven’t scored below a 770 on a McGrawhill.</p>
<p>Also, what is Z-scoring? Has that shown up on the test? The 2 released practice tests from the CollegBoard don’t really go that in depth</p>
<p>Is it true that the test has been getting harder over the years? I heard a rumor…</p>
<p>I wanted to know because I took the test in that fat, blue subject test book and I’m trying to figure what score I should expect from the actual test.</p>
<p>@Parallelism </p>
<p>z-score= (x - mean(x))/(sd)</p>
<p>where: x=score of one instance you are analysing
mean(x)= the average value of the set of numbers
sd=standard deviation of the set of numbers</p>
<p>zscore allows for comparison between different sets of data (like apples to oranges). For example, if two people take different AP tests.</p>
<p>Person A takes Math 2.
average score= mean(x) = 600
sd=50
She gets 700</p>
<p>Person B takes Chem.
average score= mean(x) = 650
sd=30
He gets a 700.</p>
<p>Who got a better score? Well this is a simple case but:
zscore for A = (700-600)/50 = 2
zscore for B = (700-650)/30 = 1.6</p>
<p>A got a better score.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen a zscore question yet but its always nice to know.</p>
<p>Just destroyed a Barron’s Math Level II test … calculated score: 770. </p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>Now … about Bio … </p>
<p>Bio?</p>
<p>Oops?</p>
<p>:o? </p>
<p>I haven’t touched Bio for weeks.</p>