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| Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 90
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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 Flawed but indispensable February 19, 2006
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Anyone serious about preparing for the SAT needs this book for a very simple reason: it is the only one with real, as opposed to imitation, SAT questions. It should form the core of your preparation. However, the book has a number of flaws-- the most crucial is that there are no explanations of the answers. This is a crock, because you can get the answers, but only by shelling out big bucks for the College Board's online service. This is shoddy scheme,unfortunately, but the book is still indispensible. Books by other companies have imitation questions which simply do not fully prepare you for the real thing.
 The Best SAT Prep Resource March 19, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the best book to prepare for the SAT. I used this book and "10 Real SATs" to prepare for the SAT. The Official SAT Guide is the more useful of the two since it has practice tests that are like today's SAT but both gave me a very good feel for how the actual test turned out to be. The practice tests in this book looked and felt like the real test with both the format and difficulty very similar to the actual test.The practice tests have questions that start out being easy and get progressively more difficult, just as they do on the real test.
The only downsides to this book are:
1. Not much by way of concepts review
2. No explanations for answers to test questions
3. The practice tests give a possible score RANGE that you are likely to score (though the tests in "10 Real SATs" give you the exact score you would have scored).
However, no other test prep materials had tests as close to the real test as this book. The practice tests were just like the real test other than the experimental section which you have only on the real test.
This book is definitely worth the price just for the eight practice tests.
 Certainly good for now, but some short comings... February 19, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
As the "NEW" SAT approaches
(Old SAT I + SAT II Writing - Analogies - Quantitative Comparisons + Short Passages = "New SAT") people are obviously looking for ways to prepare. I purchased this book thinking it would be essentially the successor to "10 Real SATs." Indeed I found, like "10 Real SATs":
-) Description as to the format of and basic strategies for the SAT
-) More SAT practice tests than anything by other prep companies (Eight)
Overall, the strategies given are very sterile and are not very helpful as compared to something by Kaplan or PR. Typical advice is obvious and often identical to free material published by the collegeboard, "Read all the answer choices, then mark the best one on your answer sheet." The guide offers no vocabulary list. The advice and "strategy" offered by this guide could probably best be considered an extended instruction sheet.
The actual exams offered are probably the best current representation of the NEW SAT until the actual test has been administered, but they are far from perfect. While these tests are by the test-makers, unlike "10 Real SATs", which sported actual tests from past administrations, these tests are only samples of what should be expected. To add to the frustration, because the Collegeboard doesn't know the actual difficulty of the NEW SAT, they are unable to offer an accurate scoring guide to allow users to figure out their scores; a certain number of questions correct in Critical Reading will translate to the ambiguous score of "700-800", theoretically meaning one's score on the practice test could be "2100-2400" which would tell one nothing about one's performance from test to test.
At the same time, prep companies do not know the scaling of the NEW SAT either, and so the scores they list are rather arbitrary.
In conclusion, it's going to be rather difficult to get any feeling of one's performance or an estimated score on the NEW SAT prior to the actual test. Take these tests simply as an educational experience to familiarize yourself with question types/pacing, the score this book will give you will be too vague to be of any interest.
Practice testing = success April 5, 2006
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I teach an SAT Prep course and have learned from experience that after learning the skills, practice testing is the most effective way to raise those SAT scores. The eight practice tests in the back of the book are key. Best book, mainly because it's from the College Board, the people who MAKE THE TEST! Doesn't get any better than this. Look for SullivanPrep, the best skills book on the market, to become available on the Web soon!
A necessity! April 6, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
CollegeBoard creates the tests, and so their Official SAT Study Guide is the most useful and accurate SAT prep guide out there. The tests presented in this book are precisely what you will see on the real SAT. Unlike other guides, the questions found in this publication are of the same difficulty as a real SAT.
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