<p>I'm trying to find other types of resouces aside from the CB Blue Book, since I need to find more practice tests to do. What are some of the other reliable sources of study where I could obtain accurate SAT study materials/practice tests?</p>
<p>How about Princeton review? Kaplan?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>PR and K are not like the real thing, but they are still useful if you have used up the the real tests.</p>
<p>I wouldn't try PR or Kaplan, I'd try Sparknotes</a>and [url=<a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0764134493&itm=7%5DBarrons%5B/url">http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0764134493&itm=7]Barrons[/url</a>]. Simply the best.</p>
<p>why barrons or sparknotes? I heard that Sparknotes isn't really a company specialized in test prep though</p>
<p>Why sparknotes? Because I have both analyzed both the Blue Book and Sparknotes, and i must indeed point out that sparknotes is simply better in my opinion, it offers more concise explanations, whereas the blue book is just a bunch of tests, not much of an explanation or anything of such. Barrons is really great too, it's over 800 pages and it has both analytical explanations along with numerous tests. Go for it.</p>
<p>I used McGraw-Hill's book. Its test questions were pretty good, but the "teaching" sections were overly simplistic. I mainly used it for practice tests (but my score on their tests wasn't like my actual score, so I don't know how much this helps.).</p>
<p>Actually, PR tests are extremely useful. I think they are right on the money.</p>
<p>Also, you can ask to buy old tests from other students (question answer service thing)</p>
<p>Hey, promethus, how would you do that?</p>
<p>Also, what's the difference between "The 10 Real SATs" published in 1997 and the more current versions of College Board's SAT guide books? Should those test from 1997 be taken seriously? (I recently bought a real cheap one-$1.99:)- and I'm not sure whether I should look at some of its test questions.</p>
<p>What do you think of this book? People on Amazon said that it was full of errors but I bought one at Barnes & Noble which had a different publishing date (a few months later) and it doesn't seem to have any errors. It's supposed to just have the harder problems.</p>
<p>I wouldn't rely on kaplan, even though I've already spent 1000 bucks taking its course. </p>
<p>Their practice tests mainly aren't reliable, since they aren't "REAL" practice tests from the past like those ones that appear on the CB Blue book. Some questions surely will have inconsistencies with the actual test. </p>
<p>For instance, there's a math question on both the PR and Kaplan prep book that asks about "The Line of Best Fit," yet I have never seen a single question that asks that in any of the collegeboard's published guides/practice tests.</p>
<p>To answer your other question, the SAT has changed. Are you in Ireland? You should definitely get a new book. There's a whole new section - the writing section which colleges are not weighing as heavily as the other two for now but you should definitely prepare for it. It also includes an essay. Also, the critical reading section is a little different - analogies are out, there are more reading sections. The math now includes Algebra 2 - functions and some other stuff which was never included before. The test is now 4 hours long.</p>
<p>Are the colleges in Ireland more like England (3 years, very narrowly focused) or like Scotland (more liberal arts and 4 years)?</p>
<p>No I'm not in Ireland, what made you think that way??</p>
<p>Anyway, I DO KNOW that the SAT has changed ever since its march inauguration last year. </p>
<p>I have taken my new SAT once already and know perfectly well what each section's about, accompanied by a huge collection of study materials for the new SAT. </p>
<p>Perhaps you'd want to read my previous post again amazon: my concern is whether or not the materials (CR and Math) from old SAT practice tests (10 REAL SATs by CB) would help me to study for the new one. I know fora fact that aside from the new writing section, everything else basically stays the same, since the College Board is currently way to busy devising new writing questions and is still planning to recycle math and CR questions from former SATs for the next few years.</p>
<p>Yes, sorry - isn't Killarney in Ireland? We have the old book too maybe it's useful. Analogies are out, there's more reading. The math now includes Algebra II - but not too many questions. I think they were supposed to make the whole test more like the ACT - supposedly testing what you've learned in school as opposed to your innate IQ but I haven't seen any evidence of that. I guess it wouldn't hurt to use the old book if you've exhausted everything else.</p>
<p>anything but kaplan...</p>
<p>Why do any more practice tests than what are in the Blue Book?</p>