<p>A- Official Study Guide for the SAT (aka Blue Book)
B - Barron's
C- Kaplan SAT
D- Sparknotes
E - McGraw Hill</p>
<p>This is my opinion
A- Official Study Guide for the SAT (aka Blue Book)
B- Princeton
C- McGraw Hill
D - Kaplan
E -Baron
F-Sparknotes</p>
<p>Oh I meant choosing One letter.</p>
<p>But why do you think Barron's is in E? is there anything wrong, missing, or lefout?? I have kaplan, barrons, and blue book but blue book looks very superficial. Barron;s is comprehensive and esp. the math part is really long. Share some opinions. Thnanks1</p>
<p>why would you not include PR in that list? It's one of the biggest ones...</p>
<p>yeah i forgot. </p>
<p>We can change the subject to "Strengths and Weaknesses of the following books"</p>
<p>PR, barron's, kaplan, sparknotes, mc graw hill, blue book</p>
<p>might as well add Rocket Review</p>
<p>rocket review is just a good strategy book. However it lacks the practice tests provided by baron, princeton, etc.
The reason i choose baron as last is that the questions wasn't similar to the collegeboard one. However this is my preference.
Having all of those books will benefit you anyone-more practice = success.</p>
<p>so then you mean many of the questions shown in the Barron's book won't appear in the actual test?</p>
<p>LOL. I don't think you're going to get any real consensus on the best book other than College Board tests, but I would PR right behind them.</p>
<p>i like Grubers(CR, Writing, + Math), Grammatix (CR + Writing). Math I think princeton review was pretty good</p>
<p>I liked McGraw-Hill, myself.</p>
<p>I like Princeton Review for it's math prep... but I don't like any critical reading practice from any book but the Blue book.</p>
<p>UP YOUR SCORE: The Underground Guide to the SAT</p>
<p>The only one that was at all helpful.</p>
<p>I have an old edition of that book... I like the way it teaches vocab with the funny sentences and pictures.</p>
<p>Yeah. The other books are so dry it's impossible to gain anything from them (at least for me). However, while the vocab helped me immensely, I went back after taking the SAT and looked up the words I knew I had missed -- and none of them were in Up Your Score. Though I doubt that they would have been in the other books, either.</p>
<p>I also liked Up Your Score, primarily for its vocab section. I read it a couple of months ago and I still remember some of its entertaining sentences.</p>
<p>there are so many opinions about different books.. this is what I get</p>
<p>1 barron's - good but hard. many questions don't appear on the real test.
2 blue book- overall good. (it's from college board)
3- PR - best bet.
4- McGraw - mixed comments.
5- kaplan - meh, OK.</p>
<p>correct me if I'm wrong. BTW, Im using Kaplan, Barron's and Blue book.</p>
<p>My favorites are the Blue Book, PR, and Kaplan. Hard to rank them.</p>
<p>so is barron's or PR the hardest book?</p>