<p>I signed up to take Math 2 test and ordered two Math 2 study guides (Barron’s and Princeton Review). </p>
<p>In talking to my math teacher today, she thought it would better for me to take the Math 1 test based on what she has seen with other students’ scores. She seems to think the students have had the advantage with Math 1. I am currently in Calculus Honors.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m still undecided. If I continue to use the Math 2 guides to study, will that be a problem or should I get a Math 1 book? The PR book does have both 1 and 2, so it’s just the Barron’s book in question.</p>
<p>Math II is scaled much more nicely than Math I…nearly 15% score 800’s on Math II. </p>
<p>I think the question is, how prepared for pre-calculus are you? Math II assumes you have a good knowledge of SAT math topics, as well as limits, trig, logarithms, matrices, and a little statistics.</p>
<p>However, I’m not actually sure which of these topics are on Math I (I only took Math II). Might want to consult other students/Google/Wikipedia. Overall I think Math II preparation should still be sufficient for Math I.</p>
<p>Thanks! As I said, I am in Calculus Honors, took pre-calc last year. I do believe there were some topics that our school did not cover in pre-calc but I’m going to go over them as I study. </p>
<p>As I study, I’m gearing towards Math 2 but if, at the end of these 2 weeks, I think I’m not doing well I was wondering how much that could hurt me.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Math I and Math II have some overlap; Math II has a little more pre-calculus.</p>
<p>Also, lots of pre-calculus topics (e.g. matrices/determinant, polar/cylindrical/spherical coordinates, vectors, dot/cross products) don’t frequently occur in the standard single-variable calculus curriculum, but show up everywhere in multi-variable calculus.</p>
<p>It’ll also help to have a basic knowledge of number theory (e.g. modulo) and combinatorics techniques. That saved me lots of time on Math II, which helped me get an 800. Then again, I had previous AMC/AIME experience…</p>
<p>Just take all of them for extra practice. The math 1 is scaled so poorly for scoring, though - I mean, you can miss like 7-8 questions on the math 2 and still get a perfect score. If you’re in calculus, you should be able to do much better on the math 2 score-wise. Have you already taken the two tests from the official college board guide? How did they compare?</p>