<p>trust me, you don't need calc at all for the math II, got an 800 with only 2 months of trig even... it's basically just putting what you know together.</p>
<p>^ Ya, you don't need calc because you are actually a calculator in a human's body, doing decimal calculations to the 3rd sig figs. Who needs calculators?! </p>
<p>give me a break. don't listen to this guy</p>
<p>You need a calc for some problems. Even if the above poster claims he doesn't, it would be much more efficient if you brought one with you and you knew how to use it. </p>
<p>What's the point of reinventing the wheel because you are a human calculator? </p>
<p>Posts like the above are the posts that mislead people.</p>
<p>Math II is easy because we usually take 4 yrs of math in HS, vs only 1 yr of (name other subject) such as physics/chem/...</p>
<p>Therefore, we handle algebraic equations much better than we handle work-energy equations.</p>
<p>he was talking about CALCulus, not CALCulator. don't you feel like a jerk :P</p>
<p>^ LOL i do. woops. ><</p>
<p>in my defense, he was very ambiguous about it :P</p>
<p>:O I'm not very smart. forgive me.</p>
<p>Even for computations that are not technically very difficult, a calculator is good because it
A. reduces mistakes
and
B. saves time that can be put to use for other problems.</p>
<p>Strongly recommend bringing a graphic calculator, and knowing how to use it, like an above poster said.</p>
<p>Agreed with Pajkaj, although I didn't really end up using it.</p>
<p>I found it really easy. Straightforward material that most at my school cover by ninth, maybe two months into tenth grade.</p>
<p>Well I got a 700 on Math Reasoning and 800 on Math2.</p>
<p>But I'm a weird person generally.</p>
<p>The calculator is useful for the following: </p>
<ol>
<li>Tedious arithmetic</li>
<li>Regression</li>
<li>Matrix Math </li>
<li>Finding Zeroes</li>
<li>Calculating Intersections</li>
<li>Calculating values of trigonometric functions impossible to calculate otherwise</li>
<li>Helping you get away without knowing trig identities...</li>
<li>Saving time</li>
</ol>
<p>WOW. love how this went from a discussion of whether calculus is necessary (pg 1) to whether calculator are necessary! i would def. cry without a calculator <--why physics subject test was hell), and sry about the confusion, i figured the mention of trig would make it obvious that i was talking about classes.</p>
<p>Why would you need regression on the SAT II?
Arach's list is correct, but IIRC, the only one where calculators are actually necessary are specific trig values. TBH, I would rather they just take calculators away and ask questions that can be answered without them.</p>
<p>Like the SAT I? :)</p>
<p>SAT II Math is easy because it has a ridiculously huge curve. 6 - 7 wrong is still an 800. No other test has such a big one.</p>
<p>Ah, I suppose you mean in the "line of best fit" sense? I was thinking more the formal definition, with the SSE and such...</p>
<p>I don't use a graphing calculator..so Math II is a bit harder for me.
however, the first time I took Math II I got 600 and it was cold- I prepped for the Math reasoning but I got 590! (took it again in june and raised the scores)</p>
<p>yeah... i felt bad about my 760... until I realised that I was just using a scientific calculator not a graphing one (in our maths course, unless your doing general which is basically 1-5=-4) you aren't allowed to use graphing calcutors) but I got a 800 on the reasoning :D
There were no imaginary numbers on my test though and that made me sad... I like imaginary numbers... easiest questions ever!</p>
<p>"espada"</p>
<p>Aha. I haven't seen that used for a while. Haha. Im acutally student No 4. I call myself Cuatro Espada (Ulquiorra rules!! T-T) and Im proud of it. </p>
<p>Anyways, I go to a large mediocre school and I got an 800.</p>
<p>My SAT reasoning math was lower than my SAT II math only because SAT 1 Math has trickier problems and I always fall into one of their traps and make really really stupid mistakes.
Math II has a much better curve..haha thank goodness.</p>
<p>How much does having a TI-89 help you on MAth II??</p>
<p>^not much. Practically everything that you can do with a ti-89 you can do with a (ti-84 + brain)</p>
<p>Then there's people like me who probably won't get into the college of their choice because they didn't do well on the SAT II Math Lvl II.</p>
<p>I got 720 on the normal SAT math.
But a pathetic 600 on the SAT II Math Lvl II.</p>
<p>How much will this hurt my chances?</p>
<p>I should have retaken it...but it's too late now...
=/</p>