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The Official Study Guide for All SAT Subject Tests (Real Sats) | 
| Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
Buy New: $12.89
You Save: $6.06 (32%)
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 3985
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 816
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.2 x 2
ISBN: 0874477565
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1662
EAN: 9780874477566
Publication Date: August 8, 2006
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Product Description
The only source of previously-administered practice tests for all 20 SAT Subject Tests Every year nearly 600,000 high school students take one or more SAT Subject Tests. Many selective colleges recommend or require them for admission or placement. The Official Study Guide for All SAT Subject Tests is the only source of official questions and answers for all 20 SAT Subject Test exams, and it is the only comprehensive guide developed by the test maker. This all-new edition
includes the following exclusive features:
• never-before-published practice tests for all 20 exams
• test-taking tips and strategies from the test-maker
• two audio CDs to practice for the foreign language SAT
Subject Tests with Listening (Spanish, German, French,
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
• practice tests for the SAT Subject Tests in Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, Modern Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Includes 2 Audio CDs for language tests!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Good reference but NOT up to date January 4, 2007
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Although the book is published recently, most tests are 3 to 4 years old and NOT up to date! But that's the only real tests one can buy in the market. What can I say!? In addition, only one test per subject is not enough!
 Buyers beware! March 11, 2007
13 out of 19 found this review helpful
If you have no other ways to prepare for the exams, you can use this book. But keep in mind that this is only an overview of the exams, not the actual exams, though the book said the questions were made by the testmakers of the real tests. The questions inside the tests don't have the same difficulty of the real tests. The College Board has reserved the real tests from the past to the educators who have access to the resources. The real exams are much harder. And I doubt that finishing studying this book will prepare you for the real exams in any way.
Can be helpful January 4, 2007
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
This product could have been helpful, but there were many mistakes within the book. I was reviewing for the French SAT II test with listening, and the answers in the back of the book were not correct. Although this tool can be very helpful and can help give you a feel for what the SAT II's look like, it has many errors and can lead you astray.
A good, generalized resource June 8, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a very generalized book covering a wide range of topics. I think that it was a very smart idea to have one book that covered all the SAT subjects--however, the subjects are very generalized and don't teach you much beyond what you already know or can solve. If you've had some previous experience with an AP class in the subject that you're wanting to test in, then this book is a nice, overall study guide, but don't expect to learn or teach yourself anything in preparation of the subject tests--like I said, it is very generalized, and some concepts are never fully understood unless they are taught in a classroom setting.
 Not a Study Guide. June 7, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Official Study Guide for all SAT Subject Tests isn't a study guide at all, as is the case with most if not all of College Board's study guide publications. This book includes only one previously administered test per subject area, which isn't adequate enough to determine the knowledge you have mastered in the subject. The exams themselves must be at least several years old, and the conversion charts reflect the performance of past years; test writers change over time as well as student competitiveness. The part that probably ticks people off the most is that NO answer explanation is included. Because this is the only SAT Subject Test book published by the actual test writing company, many have no choice but to buy this. Just because there are no other publications of previously administered exams doesn't make it right for College Board to sloppily take a past exam booklet and add answer keys. Another problem with this book is that half of it is foreign language exams. Almost no student takes more than one language test, if any at all. The foreign language exams are dead weight. The CD included only contains listening parts. College Board needs to do better, especially for the prices it charges students for the standardized tests it administers. Unless College Board updates the exams, adds an answer key explanation, or includes more exams, this book doesn't help much, but for $13 (Amazon) or $19 (College Board), it's better than nothing. If you think about buying it, buy it early, since you're most likely not going to take more than four SAT Subject Tests, and using it for just one practice test is a waste.
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