|  | Authors: Richard Ku, Howard P. Dodge
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 8th
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0764136925
Dewey Decimal Number: 510.76
EAN: 9780764136924
ASIN: 0764136925
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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Condition: Contains minor moisture wrinkling. Text has some answered questons..
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 Awesome! October 20, 2008
Tranganh T. Do (MN, USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
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!
 Worst Math2 Book on the Market August 24, 2008
Scott R. Tidwell (long beach, CA USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
Best one you can have for practice August 15, 2008
EJIA (New York, USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
 Barron's really messed up this time... July 26, 2008
J. Chen (Bay Area, CA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
Disappointing and inaccurate. June 7, 2008
K. Tseng
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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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