<p>So I’m a junior (going to be a rising senior) and I’m taking the SAT II USH exam in June. Since I already paid $20 (basic fee) + $9 (USH), should I go ahead and pay another $9 to take Math II just for practice. I won’t be preparing for it at all, but for only $9 I feel that it should be some good practice for when I take it later (maybe Nov.). And there’s always a “slim” chance to do well on it haha. With score choice, I should be able to hide the score if I do bad on it, right? So what’s there to lose!</p>
<p>Then No, If you are taking other exams, even with score choice, If you want to report one score from that day, you have to report all scores from that day.</p>
<p>Actually, I don’t think that is the case. College Board says “Score Choice is a new score-reporting feature that gives students the option to choose the SAT scores by test date and SAT Subject Test scores by individual test that they send to colleges.”</p>
<p>Some colleges don’t allow score choice. If you’re not applying to one of those, I guess you could.</p>
<p>Don’t.</p>
<p>You won’t be able to review the test and see what you got wrong, which defeats the purpose of taking it for practice. Also, some colleges do not allow score choice (e.g. Stanford) so if you mess up then you’re in trouble.</p>
<p>Don’t take an official test as practice, especially if you know you’re going to probably have to retake it at a later date.</p>
<p>I agree that you should not take the test if you’re not ready and planning on applying to schools that do not accept score choice. I was just pointing out that you can send scores by individual subject (not just the whole test date) for the subject tests.</p>
<p>haha wow ur gonna pay 9 bucks for one practice test?</p>
<p>Well they say you should take it after PreCal, and I’m in PreCal right now. However, I took some practice tests on Sparknotes a few weeks ago and didn’t do too well. Of course, there is always a chance that I’ll do okay, but I’m not sure if I want to postpone it till November because I have a super busy schedule next year. </p>
<p>Should I just take it since I’m almost done with PreCal?</p>
<p>Ummm suggestion: Why don’t you just prep??? It wouldn’t kill you and you could get it over with before senior year.</p>
<p>LOL good idea but i’ve got to prep for final exams at school as well. </p>
<p>I’ve got Barron’s so I guess I could if I feel like to. Approximately how many hours (in total) does it take to go through Barrons? (be conservative)</p>
<p>I went through Barron’s in like 3 hours the night before the exam, but I’m a strong math student, so everything was pretty much a refresher. If you put some effort into doing the book, you could probably finish in 8 hours if you also spend time on the practice questions, which I didn’t really do.</p>
<p>Here’s my advice: Use kaplan, and just go through the basic chapters if you really want to take the test. I had to review a lot since I hadn’t done trig in a year, but the review took max 5 hours and I got a great score! I know people say use Barron’s, but I always avoid Barron’s when possible because it is so much harder than the actual test! And, when you have little time, you’re not looking to be conditioned. (But I guess that could be difficult since you already have Barron’s.)</p>
<p>^ I’ve heard that Barron’s is much harder than say Kaplan, but that may depend on you. I’m scoring around 670-700 on both Barron’s and Kaplan. While others claim Barron’s is 150 points “harder”. Personally, I found the Barron’s book straight forward and easy to use (expect for all the annoying mistakes) - if you’re decent at math I would guess it would take between 4-5 hours to go through the book. However, if you’re like me and you didn’t learn probability, stats, etc in school it could take much longer.</p>
<p>What is a decent score on SAT II level 2 test? Does 710 go anywhere or should I retake the test?</p>
<p>BTW, this was after using Barron’s.</p>
<p>Well I guess I’ll just use Barron’s and see how it goes. </p>
<p>I’ll probably start this weekend so I’m going to have to work super hard haha.</p>