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| Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $13.57
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Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 99
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 889
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 2.1
ISBN: 0874477182
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1662
EAN: 9780874477184
Publication Date: January 7, 2007
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 The best guide to practice SAT tests, but not on how to crack the SAT February 6, 2006
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This guide is essential for a simple reason. It is the only one that provides authentic SAT questions. When preparing for the SAT, it is critical that you practice with test samples using true SAT questions. All the other companies (Barron's, Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc...) provide imitations of such questions. Some are criticized for being too hard, or too easy. Don't waste your time and use the real stuff, this College Board guide.
Also, this guide gives you access to excellent online resources at the College Board website. These include more online SAT test samples. The most intriguing resource is the one that gives you an automated score of your essay. So, you can test what works or not for this new essay portion.
However, you can't trust the test makers to give insightful strategies about how to handle their own test. That would be like a conflict of interest. Use this book strictly to practice the test and have access to the online tools and nothing else. For strategies, you'll have to look elsewhere. Some of the best sources are from books available in pdf files on sale on the web by companies founded by students who have been extremely successful SAT test takers. One of these companies is Lazy Student's Way. If you want to spend less money, use the Kaplan SAT guide. It is much richer and better in terms of providing strategies than this College Board guide. Either way, you will be well armed to ace the SAT.
The Official SAT study Guide September 4, 2006
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Any student preparing to take the SAT should not go with out this book. The Book provides accurate practice test created by the Test makers (ETS). But don't count on this book to give you excellent review. Review for the SAT is very brief. also this book is no good without the solutions manual which you could buy on amazon. so without the soulutions manual you won't be doing anything but just taking the practice test and not knowing where you went wrong. anyways good luck!
Helped Me Kick Some SAT Bootie!!! April 4, 2006
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I worked through all the problems in this book twice before taking my SAT last year, and it obvioiusly helped as I scored in the 95th percentile. To say I highly recommend this book would be a gross understatement. You'd be foolish not to get this book if you're preparing for the SATs.
Another book I highly recommend to soon-to-be college students is called "How to Ace Your Way Through College and Still have a Life." The tips found in this book are ingenious.
A must-have tool for a successful SAT November 10, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
The Official Study Guide offers the most up-to-date material that can be found on the real SAT. The questions are realistic, and the 8 practice tests are all clevery crafted and resemble the actual reasoning test so much that i found myself wondering whether they were practice or actual tests!!! The scoring guidelines are easy and clear to follow, and unlike other SAT preparation books, they are correct and reflect the real scoring methods; in other words you will find that your actual scores are not so much different from your practice scores with the Study Guide! Before i took my SATs i purchased more than 8 books from various publishers, such as Kaplan, and The Princeton Review, but none of them matched the quality nor the level of the material presented in this blue book...I discovered that most of the other books were rushed, had spelling mistakes, and errors in the answer keys, which combined with the faulty score ranges, provided for an unrealistic and sometimes even impossible scores! The Sat Study Guide is also valuable with the fact that it combines bulletproof tested strategies, and working methods for tackling the different sections of the test! It provides real sample questions and short practice sections, as well as actual essays for refference. When i say real and working, i mean that the methods suggested by the Study Guide are efficient, clever, and yet they leave enough room for each section to be dealt with within the timed requirements (for example - one of the other books i purchased suggested that a full 10minutes whould be spent planning the essay, with additional 2 minutes at the end for proofreading, leaving only 13 minutes to write "the perfect" essay, which is unrealistic and frankly quite impossible!!!) This book is a treasure for any serious SAT test-taker! It helped me achieve scores in the 94th percentile, with one of my sections being in the 99th! It is a must-have for every High School Junior, and thus i rate it with 5 stars, and reccommend it without reservations!
The Best Book Out There December 12, 2004
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is for people who are trying the Ace the SAT's not through a bunch of cheap tricks that don't really work, but through hard studying. This book (although known only for the real questions it gives), has a better review section than even Kaplan's. And the best part is the REAL practice questions. The questions that Barron's, Kaplan etc. give are totally bogus. It's not fun, but it is for those who are serious. It's the best buy.
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