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The Official SAT Study Guide | | Author: The College Board | Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Official SAT Study Guide is the only book that features official SAT practice tests created by the test maker. It's packed with the information students need to get ready for the exam. They’ll gain valuable experience by taking eight practice tests and receiving estimated scores. With 900 pages and 21 chapters, the book helps students raise their confidence by reviewing concepts, test-taking approaches, and focused sets of practice questions. | Click here for customer reviews and to buy directly from Amazon | $13.57
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Customer Reviews102 of 113 people found the following review helpful:
Pair This Book With Barron's!!, May 24, 2000
I am a verbal SAT tutor for the past 26 years. Here is my formula for success, and it is the reason that people pay me an insane amount of money to work with their kids. Step #1 -- Get the Barron's SAT book first. Do every test. Read the answer explanations carefully. Step #2 -- Get this book. Take the 8 practice tests, sitting straight through for each exam, 4 hours with the break. This book is easier than Barrons, so you should feel an improvement when you take these real tests. Get the book HOT WORDS FOR THE SAT by Linda Carnevale, and learn a few chapters each week. Good luck on the exam!! 17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
Great buy for practice, not strategies - No Solutions , April 6, 2000
My 5 star rating is not an overral review, but a review for the quality of their practice tests. If you are looking for practice tests, this is the book for you because it inclused tests written by ETS, and after taking the March 12 exam I can tell you that the practice tests and actual tests are very similar. While this book is awesome for practice tests, it is not the book to buy for strategies. Which the book includes some strategies, CollegeBoard is not going to release a book that tells you tricks to solve the problems they test you on. Also, the solutions to problems ARE NOT in the book, and you mast pay for them through their online course. I did this, but I don't think you should have to pay for them. 134 of 161 people found the following review helpful:
Great Start to Studying for the SAT, January 27, 2000
"The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT" by the College Board is where studying starts for the famous high school exam. It is their test, and so it is important to see their prep materials. Stop with that, and you'll sell yourself short. However, if you skip this book, you will miss out on the insiders version.
What Good Is This Book?
The College Board version presents their bias. That's good because they know what is coming up in the next exam.
The practice tests are so important. The College Board gives you eight of them, but try to take more. Again, start with this book, and move onward.
What's missing? The good stuff. More exams. Other voices. The reality is, the playing field for this test is not level. Those taking courses on SAT test taking have an advantage, as do those plowing through Kaplan books, or those published by the Princeton Review. Skip those options, and expect a lower score than you could otherwise have received.
What's really missing? The hardcore strategies. The College Board isn't intending to make the test easy. They want it fair, and to be an exam of true gained knowledge. While this noble desire eventually will be the real indicator of collegiate success, the point of most students for taking it isn't about potential success. It is about money, and/or acceptance to the school of their choice.
Get into that incredible college, and continue the same effort in your courses, and the world is yours. It starts with getting accepted.
Who Needs To Buy a Book?
The SAT is coming up. If you're bright, you'll do well. Doing well isn't good enough. If getting into the local state college is your goal, consider it done. Get something above a 'C' GPA, and something above 1,000 or 1,100 and you meet your goal.
If scholarships, or acceptance at a better school are important to you, then you need to study. Good students study. Great students study a lot. "The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT" is part of that studying.
I fully recommend "The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT" by the College Board.
Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
Practice Makes Perfect, January 6, 2000
From the point of view of a high school student who had recently taken the New SAT, I found this book really useful. Especially, if you are taking the test soon and you don't need any more tutorials on grammar or math equation, this should be the best method for practicing before the actual test.
This book is written by the people of Collegeboard, who actually write the SATs. So as a student, I could grasp exactly what the Collegeboard wanted us students to know in this standardized tests. Even though, this indeed is a standardized test that supposedly is impartial and understandable to people of various backgrounds, there is a certain psychology that you have to develop in order to take the SAT's.
For example, the sentence completion ones (where there's a blank in the middle of a sentence and you have to pick a word(s) most suitable), you sort of have to know what Collegeboard wants as the answer. When a sentence says "kind and _____" the blank would be a synonym for "kind" because "and" always symbolizes synonyms in the SAT.
Even the reading section has fixed concepts behind each questions: sometimes they are asking for direct paraphrasing (or reiteration of facts) but sometimes the question wants us to analyze and interpret a portion of the text. Therefore, this book allows us to figure out exactly what the question is asking, because we get to look at exactly the types of questions that will come up on the real test.
Remember: the only thing that you will see over and over are the questions-you will be able to grasp the purpose of the question by practicing questions from this book. And if you understand the purpose of the questions, you will do well =) (hopefully)
The new ESSAY section was exceptionally helpful for me because I could begin to understand what kind of questions that I have to deal with during the test. Given the time limit (25 minutes) to write a reasonably well structured essay, only practice makes perfect. Even if you are not a talented writer, if you sort of stick to the organization that this book says, you will do well on the actual test (I actually did pretty well on my essay section by following the structure that this book suggested!).
Lastly, there's a lot of information about scholarship, other standardized tests and applying to college that may be helpful for you.
I hope this helps. Everyone's sort of frustrated about SAT's because it has become increasingly difficult after the changes in March 2005. This will really help you get to know what the Collegeboard wants from you.
And good luck on your test =) 19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
As a Secondary English Teacher/Online SAT Essay Grader..., August 4, 2000
I recommend this guide highly. As a previous reviewer cautioned, don't use it as your only means of preparation. Your study should be multi-faceted. In terms of which preparation guide to purchase, this one is the way to go. Used alone, you will increase your score. Used in combination with school classes or private classes, as well as paying attention to instruction and feeback from your writing teachers, and/or participating in study circles with like-minded students, you will increase your score greatly! Good Luck.
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