Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat II Spanish (Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat Ii. Spanish, 9th Ed)

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Summary: I give this Barron's SAT II Spanish book 5 stars, too!
Review: Finally, a perfect prep book to get a high score on the real SAT II Spanish test! Lots of practice tests with clear explanations of answers.

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Summary: Is he writing in spanish?
Review: I bought the Barron's book SAT II Spanish to revise for my SAT II in June'04.
After the first whole test, i just closed the book and kept it closed till the exam. The spanish used in this book is way beyond SAT II. The reading and comprehension parts are much harder than the the one's in the real test and therefore not realistic.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone!!!

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Summary: Este libro es maravilloso!
Review: I bought this book about one month before my SAT II: Spanish test. The main reason that I bought it was for the practice tests; I've found that being acquainted with the format calms my nerves and (hopefully!) allows me to concentrate more on the content than the format. The book has ten practice exams that are fairly comparable in difficulty to the actual test. I took four of the practice exams and received about a 78-80 raw score on all of them, which translates into the 750-800 range as the scaled score. On the real SAT II, I scored a 760, which I expected due to my scores on the practice exams. I glanced through the grammar review and vocabulary, and it seems to be well laid out and informative. I tended not to dwell on it because, being in AP Spanish Language, I hoped that I knew enough of the information to spare myself of the extra studying. Overall, I thought the book truly helped me score better and it was a great predictor of my score - which is helpful if you're debating whether to take the actual exam or not because you are afraid of what your score might be. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone considering taking the SAT II: Spanish test.

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Summary: This book is awesome!!!!!
Review: I took the test in November 2001 and bought this book a week before it and the test was way easier than the practice tests seemed to show, and when i finally received my scores, i was amazed, i got an 800 a perfect score, seriously all the books on the Barrons publishins company do help a lot, the same i can say for the Writing test.

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Summary: In-depth Review and Practice
Review: I used this book to review for the SAT II during a study period at school. The grammar review is 60 solid pages, and so it takes some time to get through it and learn it, even if you are a good Spanish student. I studied this book for months before taking the test. Be warned that this book will not help you get a great score unless you put a lot of time in studying it (or you already know the material). However, it really does have everything you need to score well.

I think the practice tests were slightly harder than the real thing, but they were fairly close. Just a week before the actual test I got a 670 on a practice test. Then, on the actual test, I got a 710. This really isn't much of a difference when you take into account the range of SAT II scores that accompany any score.
Rather than including an exact scoring guide after every practice test (which would have been nice, but unrealistic), the book has directions on calculating your raw score and then one chart which gives a range of scores to match the range your raw score fell into. (The only soure of SAT IIs that have actually been given in previous years is, of course, "Real SAT IIs," published by the College Board.)

There were some typos in the book. I found a few in the grammar review and one or two in practice test answer keys. None of them were terrible, but if you think that the book is incorrect about something it may very well be. Overall, I good book to study, especially if you have a lot of time before the test.

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Summary: Nice Explanations but Unrealistic Practice Tests
Review: This book provides a well-rounded review of grammar and reading comp for the SAT II Spanish Test. I was kind of annoyed b/c the book advertises 10 full tests but they are all tests made up by the author, so they don't accurately predict how you will do on the test. The book does prepare you well for the test though.