<p>To free yourself from the WHIRL of SAT books' authors, I will tell you something.</p>
<p>ANYONE WITH ANY MINUSCULE INFO ABOUT THE SAT WILL GO AHEAD AND ISSUE A BOOK.</p>
<p>Seriously, no kidding, if someone just knows that the SAT consists of W, CR, and Math, will go ahead and write a useless book, full of drivel and poor ignorant students will buy such books, remain ignorant, waste their money and be as profligate as ever.</p>
<p>Get those two books:</p>
<p>Barron's How To Prepare for the SAT.
CB's The Official SAT Study Guide.</p>
<p>REAL SATs, too.</p>
<p>Other than this don't buy anything, even Barron's other SAT books are VERY REPETITIVE AND ROTE.</p>
<p>Being a student, I can analyze why some of you are so mad about buying more books, you know, when you still aren't reaching the ultimate or the desired score, because, you really aren't trying hard with those^, you will think that the defect is from the lack of info in the book and not from you!!!</p>
<p>im not annoyed though. i haven’t shown any direct evidence of my exasperation/annoyance anything on that line of emotions. plus i can’t understand what you are saying due to your awkward diction. say what u mean. perhaps by doing so ppl will stop misinterpreting ur posts.</p>
<p>I’m not quite seeing how students who are tricked (one way or another) into buying subpar SAT review books can be described as “profligate” spenders.</p>
<p>Rote is a noun, and it cannot be used as an adjective.</p>
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<p>Whirl’s definition is:
: to move in a circle or similar curve especially with force or speed
: to pass, move, or go quickly <whirled down=“” the=“” hallway=“”>
: to become giddy or dizzy : reel <my head=“” is=“” whirling=“”></my></whirled></p>
<p>I believe that you are using whirl as a replacement for perhaps a more common word like “tornado of authors,” but that’s not how you use it.</p>
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<p>miniscule - very small; “a minuscule kitchen”; “a minuscule amount of rain fell”</p>
<p>Miniscule is used wrong. Just try saying "A very small information. "</p>
<p>Also, as others have pointed out, profligate cannot be used in that context.</p>
<p>I think its ironic that you bash on SAT books being useless, when your advice is basically useless due to poor communication that people have consistently told you about.</p>
<p>I used the blue book, Princeton Review, and lots of practice tests from diverse sources including Barron’s. I can only comment on the books I did use.</p>
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[<em>]Princeton Review strategies were useful. Especially the emphasis on plug-and-check and process of elimination to save time.
[</em>]BB practice questions and practice tests (in real SAT formatting) were really good.
[<em>]Barron’s is harder; the CR is indescribably different from the real test.
[</em>]McGraw-Hill is weird. Enough said.
[<em>]Gruber’s is useless. Borrowed it and used about 6 pages of it before realizing it was entirely garbage.
[</em>]CollegeBoard released practice tests, published once a year, are great for accurately estimating your score against ETS’ difficulty and curves.
[li]Previously administered tests are the best way to practice.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>I scored 2400 the one and only time I took the SAT.</p>
<p>I think PR Critical Reading was one of the closer approximations to the real test. The “strategies” from PR also helped in CR but not everything in the book works for me.</p>