<p>I am not sure which book to get.</p>
<p>As a freshmen in Adv. Alg, I got a B / A
As a sophomore in Pre Calc, I got a C / C, in an extremely hard class.</p>
<p>So, I plan to get a book and review during the summer, and take it during the fall.</p>
<p>What book should I get? I heard the Barrons the best for advanced students who plan to ace it. Seeing that I got Cs in Pre Calc, should I get that? Or should I get another one? I don't plan on aceing it, but I do plan on performing well on it.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I also heard that Barrons is good. I used the Kaplan book for Math Lvl 2 and ended up getting a 650 the first time around (granted, I never took Pre-Calc AND I had been in Calculus for a year before I took the test.) I got a tutor for a couple of hours from The Princeton Review, which also helped. My tutor helped me raise my grade to a 760. </p>
<p>Anyway, if your plan is to just do OK on the test, get the Kaplan book- it's pretty straightforward and it'll help you do pretty well on the test. If you plan on truly acing it, you might as well go for Barron's (but even if you want to do OK, it might be worth it to get it.)</p>
<p>Barrons, as usual, overprepares you for the test. It gives you a lot more detail than you need (which is good) and the practice tests are wicked hard. (a lot harder than the actual test)</p>
<p>PR is about the same level as Barrons, and it explains better. The practice tests are pretty easy in PR though...</p>
<p>So my recommendation is get both, because PR doesn't go into as much detail as Barrons, and detail is good.</p>
<p>How is the Kaplan Math II? My son did Princeton, McGraw Hill and he's doing Barron's now. I was wondering what Kaplan was like.</p>
<p>I used Kaplan 07-08 edition. I though it was pretty good. The end of the chapter summaries were really clear. I got an 800 on the Math 2.</p>