<p>“it shows more mastery of math skills”</p>
<p>Err… if one can omit 7+ questions out of 50 and still earn a “perfect” score, I wouldn’t call it “mastery.”
On the contrary, each question is worth 10 points on the Math I exam.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s been established. Math II is the way to go.</p>
<p>Yes, no doubt she will take Math II for sure, and probably not bother with Math I as an additional exam.</p>
<p>If anyone can answer my next question that would be great: </p>
<p>In what way does Math I differ from the Math portion of SAT-I? I looked at a Math I practice test and it looks pretty similar to SAT-1 math in level of difficulty.</p>
<p>Math II Junior Year.</p>
<p>lol nobody knows the answer to ur question because nobody took the math I</p>
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<p>By that token, then a first graders who scores a 100% on his addition test shows more mastery than a high school senior who misses a couple questions on the AP calculus BC test and gets a 5.</p>
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<p>There are 50 questions on the Math I exam… 10 x 50 = 500, so a perfect score on the Math I is 500? Hrmm… some mastery :)</p>
<p>I guess Math I tests your ability to answer easy questions without making silly errors while Math II tests your ability to solve difficult math problems. </p>
<p>And maybe SAT1 Math is like doing Math I but with a more generous curve.</p>
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<p>while you miss the point (obviously), it look like no one gets below a 250 on the Math I (and less than .5% get below 300) , so 50*10 + 250 = 750 = not that far off.</p>
<p>“By that token, then a first graders who scores a 100% on his addition test shows more mastery than a high school senior who misses a couple questions on the AP calculus BC test and gets a 5.”</p>
<p>That is a stupidly exaggerated analogy.</p>
<p>“On the contrary, each question is worth 10 points on the Math I exam.
There are 50 questions on the Math I exam… 10 x 50 = 500, so a perfect score on the Math I is 500? Hrmm… some mastery”</p>
<p>Assuming a full score of 800, each omitted answer deducts ten points from that score.</p>
<p>I took Math 1 in my junior year and got a 650. I was pretty disappointed, and learned that Math 2 had a generous curve. So, In November of my senior year (this academic year), i decided to study for the Math 2 test. I registered for two tests, but other than Math 2, I was unsure of what to test to take. I had taken Chemistry in June 07 and did pretty bad, so now I figured I will do worse since I forgot chemistry. So, I ended up doing Math 2 and Math 1. When my score came, I was pretty disappointed with my Math 2 score of 650, but surprisingly my Math 1 score was 710. I don’t know how this happened, but what I concluded from this was that sometimes these tests needed to be attempted more than once.</p>
<p>archrival: Thank you very much for your candid and very relevant post.</p>