I took the SAT II Math IIC twice, once sophomore year and again my junior year. The first time, I used Kaplan only and scored only 640. Since this was an egregious result, I decided to take it again the next year, except with more preparationg and rigorous studying. I bought the Barron's book and took advantage of its 4 tests (hard questions but great practice). The second time, I got a 770, which is considered a TOP score for the SAT II Math IIC. From what I've discerned from all these review books, Kaplan is too easy, Princeton Review is just right but not particularly challenging, and Barron's is much harder. But don't we all want to practice hard questions than easy ones for a test?

If you're planning to major in anything remotely math related, chances are, you have to take the SAT Math Level 2 exam. There are lots of books on the market, but I think Barron's is by and large the best resource to prepare if you're dead set on getting a (near) perfect score. Why?

It covers all the material you'll ever need in excrutiating depth. This may not appeal to everyone, but it's better to have everything there for those who want it, than to skimp on the meat and potatoes required for the 800.

Also, the practice tests are harder than the real thing! This is good! If you can master doing well on the exams provided in here, the real thing should be a piece of cake. It's important to note that having harder questions forces the development of math maturity and reasoning skills, so even if the questions aren't the same, the mental workout you get is more than worth it. (Plus, when you realize the real test is so much eaiser than this, you'll be relieved)

This book isn't for everyone, however. If you're serious about getting an 800, this book is what you need. For those aiming for low-to-mid 700s, I'd reccomend the Princeton Review, as its tests are more representative of the real thing, and the material covered is less in depth, but presented in a "friendly" way.

I reccomend to everyone, though to pair Barron's with the official SAT math practice test book as well to gauge your performance on the real thing. While your scores on Barron's may suck, you'll feel pleasantly surprised when you ace the CB tests! (but save those for the very end)

So, yeah. It's $10, and it'll help you ace the SAT math 2. What more could you want?

This book is really good for practice, but I don't recommend this book for common student.It is too hard.

Sticking to this book and taking sample practice tests from Math 1 & 2 by collegeboard are all you should do for math level 2.
To be honest, I were not sure about how useful this book was when I bought it. But guess what, I was so engrossed in it that I forgot to have lunch the day when it was shipped to my house. It is useful for not only my math level 2 test but also for my math team.
Believe me you 're gonna love it!

I am an SAT Math Level 2 tutor, and I have been working with this test for over 10 years. This Barron's book is absolutely the worst Math Level 2 book that I have ever seen. The questions in this book are (a) significantly more difficult than those on the actual exam, and (b) nothing at all like those on the actual exam.

On this test, matrix questions are considered difficult, and uniformly appear at the end of the exam. In the Barron's practice tests, matrix questions appear very early in the test amongst the easy questions. On the real test, polar coordinate questions are pretty straightforward, and yet still considered difficult by the test makers. The Barron's book puts extremely difficult polar coordinate questions very early in the test.

The subjects covered, the difficulty, the sorts of tasks, and the wording are absolutely nothing like the actual test. Did the Barron's author even bother examining the actual test? I think not. While it might be cool to see if you can do the math in this book, it will in no way help you prepare for the test. I highly recommend never even opening this book.

I totally disagree with everyone here. This is the one I used for SAT math level 2, and I got 800 on the test. I have to say that if I had not used this book, I would have only gotten about 700 or even lower on the test. What helped me to bring up my score is this book. Most questions in the book are definitely harder than those on the real test, but the book has the same level of hard questions appeared on the real test. If you want to shoot for 750+ on the test, you should choose this one; otherwise, use Princeton review or something else.

I'm surprised at this kind of quality from Barron's.

Other reviewers have probably already said what I'm going to say- but no matter, it will give you a second opinion to verify the poor quality of this book.

First mistake: the answer sheets for every practice exam only include 4 answer bubbles for each question (there should be 5 answer bubbles, and it got annoying after a while). But this is only a minor mistake...

Second mistake: the answer key is sometimes wrong (I encountered this problem maybe once or twice each test). What's worse- when the answers are explained, the answer is still wrong! The explanation will have the wrong answer choice (like C instead of A), but the solution will be for the correct answer. This was frustrating sometimes and gives you a permanent mistrust of all of their answers and solutions.

The review section is still decent- a lot of concepts are adequately summarized. But all in all, if you can help it, don't go for this book. Choose a competitor's. I liked Kaplan (the difficulty of the practice exams more closely modeled the real thing). And of course the official College Board study guide is a good book for assessment and accurately predicting your score. I gave this book two stars because I don't think you should buy it when there are so many decent competitors out there.

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.

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.

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.

I wasn't satisfied with the reviews of Barron's Math 2 Guide posted here, but I found more useful (positive) feedback from looking at reviews for similar guides, especially the Official SAT guide for math tests (which contains sample tests but no review information). I will post another review after using this book but wanted to share this tip now. Complaints about errors in this book and the Princeton Review book refer to incorrect page references rather than incorrect solutions, so I can live with those errors. Hope this helps a bit.

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.

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

the product came very quickly and in good conditions. I will buy from this seller again. Thanks for the book