I recently got Dr. Chung’s SAT math book. It was decent; the only problem I had were poor-ish explanations and questions that don’t resemble the difficulty of usual college board math material. Just today, I was on YouTube and stumbled upon a guy named Steve Warner. He finished a section of the math SAT in the official study guide right under 8-9 minutes. This amazed me but I’m still skeptical about his claim that he didn’t look over the questions before he did his video I checked out his website, and it turns out that he published a whole slew of SAT prep books. Are they any good? Anyone have any good or bad experiences with his books?
As a tutor, I can tell you 8-9 minutes for a math section is not hard at all. Most tutors can do that. If not, they’re not a very good tutor.
I actually own most of Steve Warner’s SAT books. They’re okay. I don’t find the questions/concepts included to be comprehensive enough though. They seem to have been created by looking at old, official questions, then changing the numbers to create new questions. While those questions are good, I’ve worked through dozens of official SATs, so the types of questions are pretty apparent to me. I don’t see a ton of those concepts show up in his math books at all.
Still, for the questions that are included, they are solid. (Some typos throughout his books though, which makes learning math difficult because then you believe the faulty math is actually correct).
So what books do you recommend?
I have a higher opinion of Dr. Steve’s books. I think they’re excellent. I also like PWN the SAT and The New Math SAT Game Plan by P Keller.