<p>If I am scoring around the 600's in each section, which book would be more helpful in increasing my score to atleast 2000+?</p>
<p>I have both books. You should look at both yourself, but the How to Prepare book is more in depth and it covers many more things. It has a huge section on math that covers just about everything you need to know about math, though I still think that Grubers is very good for math. 2400 gives some good strategies for CR, but the main strategy you need to know from that book is mark either a +(positive) or a -(negative) sign in each blank to really help you out. </p>
<p>The How to Prepare book is definitely for you if you're just trying to get a 2000. For people trying to get a 2100-2400, it's more helpful. Take a look at both, but you'll be better off with the How to Prepare one. ALSO, don't buy the one with the disc! That costs $30 while the one without it costs only $20. I bought it with the disc didn't know that I could buy it without the disc.</p>
<p>PR helped me a lot...u can also use the work books by Barrons for help w/ individual sections.</p>
<p>Barron's how to prepare for SAT is quite comprehensive, especially for maths. Good vocab list too (the high frequency ones). But its practice tests are way too hard compared to the real SATs. I can never seem to break 2100 on it even though I scored 2200+ on the actual SAT test itself.</p>
<p>Barron's 2400 is very good. Alot of useful tactics for CR </p>
<p>For practice tests, definitely invest in collegeboard's official SAT guide (blue book) or for additional ones, try Princeton Review's. PR's practice tests are more in line with the actual SAT standard compared to Barron's</p>
<p>is barron's 3500 vocab list in the how to prepare for the sat book?</p>
<p>i think so. the 2400 one has a much shorter list</p>