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Not the best choiceI wish I would have gotten a different book for my son. I read the other reviews and thought I should get this book because it covered the hardest problems, better to be safe and know all of the material, right? My son just took the test for real yesterday and he said it was so easy. He thought you could take it after having Algebra II, not Pre-Calc.
Studying for the test took him a long time, since he felt he should know all of the problems covered in the book's practice tests. At one point, just 3 days before the test, he felt he wasn't ready for the test and thought he would not take it now, instead study more and take it at a later date. Thank goodness he went ahead and took it. With 40 minutes left, he was done except for one question he had skipped and checking over his answers. What a difference from the book's practice tests, which he barely had time to finish with no checking.
Please think twice about getting only this book.
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| Practice, practice, practiceThis guide does many things well. Before reading the tips and information though, it would be useful to do a practice test, either one of the online tests (preferable) or the FOUR tests, not ten, included in the book. It's important to have a baseline so you know where you are beginning to see how much your score improves - both by understanding the test and its format - and by seeing how testing anxiety can effect you even in an informal setting. I am involved in testing and if you test students at the end of the year and find out where they're at, that's all great and good, but it's a lot more meaningful when you an demonstrate growth by knowing at what level they started. This guide looks huge but it is made up of a lot of tests and explanations - the last 393 pages are only these.
I have been involved in high stakes testing in a variety of roles for the last ten years. There are a lot of things you can learn from this book, clear strategies that will help you succeed in improving your scores on the SAT. What was funny, a thing I discovered AFTER doing a practice test is that in the math section when you are trying to figure out the value of y, to start with the middle choice and figure out whether it is correct or whether you need to go higher or lower because the numbers will be sequential. LOL!!! I don't know how I missed that my entire life - probably because I don't pay much attention to the math sections.
The section on the writing portion of the SAT is woefully inadequate. Readers of this section may think that the higher scores may be gotten with quick vignettes from real life, that the essays may be written with casual vocabulary and with not very much grace in the sentence structure or voice. None of these things are true. The essays they are using at examples as Score 6s would more likely be Score 4s, if not below that, which you can see very clearly by comparing these essays with the real life examples on the college board site.
The internet changes everything. It was easy to find appropriate essays that show you what is expected from an essay that receives a score point of 6. If you go to a variety of websites, including Spark Notes and the actual College Board site, you can see examples of real essays that received the highest score point and you will see that the essays in this book are nowhere close to the highest score point. Once you get to the College Board site, look at the essays under score point 6. You will see a profound difference in the quality of the writing and the depth of thought. This guide has skipped the very first two parts in the directions: "Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, and observations." There are five or six novels that students tend to focus on in the writing of these essays - from Romeo and Juliet to The Great Gatsby. Students write about world history, and World Wars, Churchill, the Civil Rights movement, the forefathers of our nation. The essays that receive a score point of 6 tend to discuss events from history or literature or both.
This is a great guide. It is effective and it does give a lot of good advice. But I don't think this resource is enough on its own and it does not take the place of an SAT preparation class, nor the in-depth study of vocabulary that some guides promote. There are a lot of good parts but it should only be considered a part of a plan to succeed at the SAT.
In short, practice, practice, practice.
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| Roll on the floor laughing. . . I didn't know it was possible from an SAT guideI found this while looking for an SAT guide for my nephew, but couldn't put it down myself. And then I showed a friend, and he wouldn't give it back as he flipped through it. At one question, he laughed for a full minute!
The author goes through all the different types of SAT questions, teaching the real information about the questions but with hilarious examples of each of the question types. Some of them sound like late night comedy jokes, which I guess makes sense since the author wrote for Leno. Math questions are also very funny. I didn't know this was even possible!
This book is a really fun way to review the types of questions and take a practice test before going on to taking all the practice SAT tests you can get your hands on. When I was taking the SAT, I read a review book and then took 6-10 practice tests and got 2340 out of 2400. As someone who (thankfully!) doesn't have to take the SAT anymore, I found this book really funny and think it could actually help motivate someone to get started with studying for the SAT. Prior to taking a zillion practice tests.
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Excellent Vocabulary WorkbookMy daughter and I sat down together to use this workbook and I'm so pleased with the layout. Not only is it topic friendly, using Vocab from a popular novel, but it is user friendly. I would love Brian Leaf to do this with novels my younger kids read, such as Fablehaven.
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if you have already successfully passed your test, you can sell used SAT prep books at eBay!
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