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Barron's SAT Subject Test Math Level 2 2008 (Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat II Mathematics, Level Iic) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing and inaccurate.
Comment: When you hear Barron's, you think you're getting a good deal. Helpful tips and understandable explanations, right?

Well, this book DOES NOT live up to the standard. I found numerous mistakes throughout the book that I might as well just mark it up with my red pen. The answers and explanations don't match in some questions not to mention that the explanations are spotty; they don't go step by step to tell you how they got their answer. While I know the tests are created to be harder than the real test to make the real test seem easy, some of the problems are ridiculous! My precalc teacher couldn't even solve some of them, and he's one the best precalc teachers in the country.

If you really want to know what the test is like, buy Princeton Review. It's more accurate, more understandable, and has a lot less mistakes.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely disappointing
Comment: Don't buy this book, it's not worth your money. I suggest you buy Princeton Review instead. Like someone before me said, it is obvious that the people who published this book didn't take any time to look over it or they would've found numerous mistakes. No "e" choices for any of the answer choices? That was already kind of annoying, but the numerous printing and mistakes made in explanations makes me wonder if they printed a draft instead of the final copy. For instance, they left out the ^'s in one question, which confused me for quite a while. I found at least 3 instances when the answer was just plain wrong. What really pissed me off, though, was that one question asked you to calculate the area of the triangles in a graph shown above the questions--yet they began the explanation with "To calculate the area of the rectangles in under the graph..." It would've been somewhat forgivable as a typing mistake, but when I looked at my friend's book (the 2007 or I think 7th edition) I found that the exact same question was in her book, with the exact same mistake in their explanation. A new edition is supposed to correct old errors and improve, but they obviously just reprinted it for more money!
Another thing is that this test is WAY harder than the real exam. I was NEVER able to finish a test in the alotted time. My friend got an 800 on the real test but she said when she took Barron's exam, she got 8 questions wrong (definitely not an 800). They're supposed to give you a sense of what the real test is like and help you review for it, but they just stressed me out for the real exam because I was afraid I'd fail.
This book is definitely not worth your money. Don't buy it, send a message to Barron's that if they want customers, they need to fix up their product.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Check a similar guide to see comments on Barrons
Comment: I wasn't satisfied with the reviews of Barron's Math 2 Guide posted here, but I found more useful (positive) feedback about this book from looking at reviews for similar guides, especially the Official SAT Guide for math tests. So you may want to check around. My four-star rating is based on the comments of others.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: This book is horrible- so many obvious errors
Comment: I guess the other two reviewers didn't really use the book yet. There are so many obvious errors in the book. They aren't little spelling errors. For instance, the questions and the answer explainations don't match. There are 5 answer choices (a-e), but the answer sheet has only 4 circles (a-d). It almost like the people who made this book didn't review it at all!!!!! I just started the book the other day. I doubt that the less of the book will also have a bunch of errors in it. I'm kindly give the book 2 stars because it review through topics that you need to know. Honestly, it is NOT worth your money.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: cant find a better book than Barron's
Comment: the book is great
but my math sucks
got only 623 out of 800 on the diagnostic test... and im working on this book now

i will see how much more i can get when i finish this book

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