Kristina Semos - Math 2 Cram Plan [SAT 2 Math Test Prep]: The Ivy Lounge Test Prep Guide to High-Speed, High-Impact Prep for the SAT II Subject Test in Math Level 2

Kristina Semos founded Ivy Lounge Test Prep after serving as head tutor for two different elite Manhattan tutoring agencies...and realizing that SHE was the one telling THEM the latest testing news, the patterns she'd noticed, and the strategies she'd developed to keep her students one step ahead of the tests.

Kristina grew up in Dallas, TX, breaking city and state records for math and general academic achievement. She graduated as valedictorian of Dallas's Talented and Gifted Magnet High School and then Magna cum Laude from Brown University (MIT was her backup school). She speaks all over New York about test prep and the college process, writes the Ivy Lounge Test Prep blog, and reaches students on six continents with the magic of the internet. When not at work, Kristina can be found tearing up a dance floor or reading her friends' astrological charts. She lives in Jersey City with her wife Linda, their rescue pit bull Polo, and her beloved tomato plants.

So, in an ideal world, you'd have started preparing for your Subject Test weeks, even months ago. But you know what? Life happens. (If you're reading this book about cramming, you almost certainly DO know that!)

Here's the thing that I want to make sure is clear before we get started on our high-speed, high-impact prep together: cramming is a strategy that CAN workbut only in the right circumstances. You need to be sure that it can work for you. Otherwise, this isn't going to be the best use of your time, and I know that your time is precious right now. So let's make sure we're using it wisely before we jump right in.

If you already have math knowledge tucked away in your brain somewhere from having learned it before, this ebook will be a great refresher and help you make differentiations and connections between ideas and concepts that makes them clear (maybe for the first time in your life!) and thus memorable. It offers condensed versions of concepts, and picks out the most important key terms, formulae, and trickshelping you focus on what the Math 2 exam actually tests.

Basically, this ebook will help you target the "low-hanging" math "fruit" and harvest it for points...sometimes quite a few of them. So if it's in that noggin of yours somewhere, this might be exactly the boost you need to reach your target score!

But if you look through the list of topics that the Math Level 2 Subject Test covers and MANY of them are totally unfamiliar to you? Then what you need isn't cramming, it's LEARNING...and that's something you just might not have time for right now.

Phew! I just HAD to get that one off my chest! Because without a basic understanding of things, this guide won't help you...because cramming won't help you.

Taking an SAT 2 Subject Test at all is optional. You're either CHOOSING to apply to a specific school or degree program that requires it (in which case having a grounding knowledge of math is necessary to succeed in that school or program, and you'd be in bigger trouble than one Subject Test can give you if you arrived at their school without it!), or else, if you simply need ANY Subject Tests, you're CHOOSING to take one in math. And then you picked the more advanced one! And if you don't even NEED Subject Tests to apply to your particular college list? Exactly. That means CHOOSING to take the Math Level 2 Subject Test is doubly and entirely optional.

Since you CHOSE to take Math 2, you probably have a basic understanding of the subject matter already. This book works on the assumption that your decision to take Math Level 2 was a pretty wise one: that is, I'm going to assume you'll need some help refreshing, fine-tuning, and filling in knowledge gaps (otherwise you wouldn't need to read this!), but that I'm not teaching you math from scratch. Like, you've learned how to solve equations.

If that assumption is true for you, you're in the right place. I'm glad you're here! Following the Cram Plan that best fits your schedule can maximize the impact of your prep time and boost your score...potentially dramatically.

Still, even for the people for whom cramming IS a good fit, there's one more thing I need to emphasize about cramming as a method...especially as a method for approaching Math Level 2.

See, you can cram your way into a GOOD score or even a VERY GOOD score, but you probably will NOT cram your way to a PERFECT score.

That's especially true on Math Level 2 becauseas I'm about to explain to you in the section that lays out the facts about the Math Level 2 Subject Test it covers a much bigger and more advanced range of mathematical topics than the Math Level 1 test does, and you'd have to get about 43 out of its 50 questions correct to get a perfect score. Now, I've helped lots of students get perfect 800s on Math 2, and if you had the time to prepare carefully, you might TOTALLY be one of them...but by the very nature of the fact that you're cramming, you simply don't have time to cover every single base. In my vast past experience working with elite families in Manhattan and across the globe, I know it almost always takes more practice than a week (or even a week plus a few days!) permits.