<p>This thread concerns the CR in Barron's "How To Prepare For The SAT" (23rd ed.)</p>
<p>It is common knowledge that Barron's maths is far harder than the real SAT maths. But what about CR? I find the CR presented on this book's several practice tests slightly odd, for answers to lots of questions appear to be implausible and very far-fetched.</p>
<p>Am I the only one? To what degree does the CR on these practice tests resemble the actual SAT?</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies.
Phil</p>
<p>I THINK that Barron's is pretty much more difficult for everything except French SAT II. I really have nothing to base this on except that I once used Barron's for Math IIC and I got Barron's 2400 but refuse to look too closely at the practice questions since I keep getting them wrong.</p>
<p>In Barron's 2400 I do think that the CR questions are kind of strange. I'd take them with a grain of salt just because they're not the official CB practice questions.</p>
<p>I would look at Barron's explanations, but their tests are way too hard. This could help you, but it caused me to perform worse.</p>
<p>yeah it does seem harder.</p>
<p>i have the CR workbook by barron's and i got 700 on the first practice test. i was hoping for higher, maybe it's because of the difficulty?</p>
<p>Barron's SAT book is diffilcult than the other SAT books. I also found that the writing part is also harder than the other ones.. </p>
<p>For example, I got above 700s on writing but 600s on Barron's book..</p>
<p>ok, i see a bit light at the end of the tunnel. thanks to all of you.</p>
<p>barrons is harder always</p>
<p>I got their math workbook thing, and some of the problems in there are absurdly difficult for the SATs...kinda demoralizing.</p>