How to Prepare for the Sat I (Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat I, 21st Ed) Book

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by: Sharon Weiner Green, Ira, K. Ph.D, Wolf

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Average Rating: Rating: - This is the best review book of any kind I ever used!! This book is incredible. I studied with it all spring and took the SAT I on May 1. My scores were 290 points higher than on my PSAT!!!The best part of the book are all the strategies for solving the math problems. Using them, I was able to answer at least 10 or 15 questions that I would have otherwise had to leave out.The practice tests are really good. They are just like the real thing, so doing them is really good practice. If anything, they are slightly harder, so the real one I took in May seemed easier.I would recommend this book to anyone high school student who will be taking the SAT I. My younger brother is in 9th grade and he just started to read it. Rating: - Very useful if you want to STUDY. I bought the 20th edition of this book, and I was not disappointed by it. This is the only book I used, and it took me about 1 month of moderate effort to work through, with the exception of the vocabulary (this was the trouble spot for me, since I'm not a native English speaker). The vocabulary certainly requires more time -- and spending 1 hour a day for 6 months will help more than spending 6 hours a day for 1 month. Positive: 1) It doesn't put the whole emphasis on test-taking tricks -- knowing the tactics is useful, but tactics alone will not get you very far. You need to actually solve the questions. 2) It contains sections where material is actually presented, and explained. It also contains explanations for all the tests. 3) It seemed to me to cover very well the real test, in terms of types of questions present. 4) The vocabulary is well-tuned, and contains just the words you'll see on the actual test. The cars are helpful. It is also helpful that the lists contained words which may not be considered difficult -- this is helpful for those with different levels of English. 6) The tips for solving math problems are not just plain-old "eliminate the answer choices", but real scientific ways of achieving results -- Very Useful. Negative: 1) There's very little information on how to obtain a scaled result from the number of questions right/wrong. Therefore, at first one can't say if the tests were more difficult, or less difficult than the real test. Only after getting the Q&A Collegeboard service, was I able to conclude (as if it mattered:) that Barron's is slightly more difficult than the real test. I'll say it again: Very Good Coverage of All the Test Areas. Teaches you how to solve the questions in a smart way, not to perform answer-sheet magic in a dumb way. Rating: - 5 stars are not enough! :) Well, Well, Well. This is definitely a "must-have" for anyone who wants to take the SAT and hasn't got a 1600 for the first time. I must admit that I was skeptical that any book could help me prepare for the verbal or math section, but after following all the guidelines in "How to prepare...", I reconsidered my thoughts. I am not a native English speaker, that is why it is hard for me to learn words like "arroyo", but after some practice I found out that studying can be fun and it was largely due to my determination and this book's tips that I almost finished learning them all. I said almost since, apparently, 3 moths allocated to SAT weren't enough - this is where I come to an advice to you, all those wanting to take this test - plan much ahead! I've studied math at a high level, and even now I am majoring in Applied mathematics, but I hadn't even thought about the great tips&tricks I found in this book - "plug-in numbers" is a phrase I will certainly remember for all of my life, and it is a tactic that I've also used in my recently taken test. I won't brag about my scores - I don't know them yet (I've taken the test on the 4th of November). And I don't want to make any assumptions since I've learned that SAT is as unpredictable as an earthquake. There's one thing I can say - this book's tests were harder than the real thing, and they were really helpful! Thank you Sharon Weiner-Green Ira Wolf for such a marvelous job!

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