Questions about subject tests.

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<p>Like the title says, I have a couple questions about tomorrow.

  1. If I finish my first 2 tests (signed up for 3), could I leave without taking the third one? What would happen? I honestly don’t feel like I am prepared for the third test but I feel strongly about my potential to get 800 on the other 2 so I don’t want to ruin my scores with something like a 800,800,600 or w/e.
  2. I was going through an old Barron’s math 2 book and they have a few programs for the ti 83 plus that they recommend using. Are these programs allowed? Can I write my own and use them on the test without getting in trouble with CB or without people around me being suspicious? I don’t really think I’ll need them but they wouldn’t hurt to have at my disposal.</p>
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<p>What programs are in the Barron’s book?</p>

<p>Its okay to leave early, but you will not be refunded the $12 for the third test. Although I believe that I have heard that you can actually send only two of the three scores rather than all three?</p>

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<p>There’s five programs in the book with instructions on how to create them. Distance between 2 points, midpoint of a line segment, distance between a point and a line, angle formed by two lines, and the quadratic formula solver. I wrote a couple of others myself. </p>

<p>I’d never heard about being able to send only 2… if that’s true I might do just that.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure, so don’t quote me on that.</p>

<p>Now that you mention it, I think I might make those as well now…
Why isn’t there a SAT II for coding though D:</p>

<p>EDIT: Could you go a little more indepth about these programs? I’m kinda curious about the angle formed by two lines, the distance between a point and a line, and the others that you wrote.</p>

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<p>I’m sure there’s a simple tutorial on how to make them somewhere, it’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it. The angle formed by two lines looks like this on the ti-83,
: Disp “SLOPE1”
: Prompt M
: Disp “SLOPE2”
: Prompt N
: (M-N)/(1+MN)->T
: arctan(abs(T))->A
: Disp “ACUTE ANGLE=”
: Disp A
: Stop</p>

<p>I made programs like shortcuts for the law of cosine and finding the nth term of arithmetic and geometric sequences etc. but those are pretty simple to make once you get the hang of it.</p>

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<p>I just checked the new Barron’s Math2 book, there is no program in it.</p>

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<p>My daughter was definitely able to send only two of the three subject test scores. When she was sending them to colleges, a whole list came up and she had to check the boxes for the scores she wanted to send. It makes sense to take three and only send the best two if there is a big discrepancy in performance.</p>

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<p>That’s a relief to know then. It won’t be that big of an issue to just take a third test then, since who knows, it might help!</p>

<p>Also, I’m quite familiar with the code aspect, I was just unfamiliar with the finding the angle part. Why would you need that though?</p>

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<p>I… actually have no clue if I’ll need it, but it was one of the only 5 programs in the book so I might as well use it.</p>

<p>Thank you guys for the help, I now plan on taking all 3 exams tomorrow.</p>