Algebra II & Trig can be a difficult course! It’s one of those courses where it’s pretty much necessary to teach a topic a day if you’re to have any hope of finishing the syllabus…a snow day (or 2 or 3) can kill you.
You mention a 95 on the quiz. OK, that’s a great sign; it means you can do the material. But dropping 23 points on the test tells me that one of a few things happened:
- you didn’t understand which directions meant what (for example, you found the actual roots instead of the nature of the roots)
- you rushed, either because time was a legitimate issue or because you were afraid it was
- you made careless mistakes.
I suspect it’s a combination of those factors, but my money is on the first. Does your textbook have a chapter review section? If not, can you find a textbook that roughly correlates to yours that does? Start using that chapter review; it will mix up the questions the way a test does.
Here’s a great practice site: http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/math/algtrig/math-algtrig.htm
Good luck!