Consolidated List of Favorite SAT I Preparation Aides

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<p>someone please sticky this??!! I think we really need it, especially for newcomers.</p>

<p>Guide/Strategies:
Kaplan 2400, Barrons 2400, Up Your Score</p>

<p>Practice:
Official SAT Study Guide (Blue Book)
Princeton Review 11 Tests
Kaplan 12 Tests</p>

<p>Workbooks:
Barrons-Critical Reading
Barrons-Math
Kaplan-Writing</p>

<p>Vocabulary
Sparknotes 250 Most Difficult
Vocabulary Cartoons II
Sparknotes 1000</p>

<p>Comprehensive Guide:
Princeton Review-Cracking the SAT
Kaplan-Comprehensive
Gruber's
Rocket Review
Maximum SAT
Feel free to agree/disagree..</p>

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<p>I second this concept.</p>

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<p>What's the difference between workbooks and comprehensive guides?
is it just like that workbooks are more profound on a certain topic?</p>

<p>is it a big advantage to have a workbook for each topic compared to have one comprehensive guide covering all three topics?</p>

<p>also: what do "Guide/Strategies" books contain?</p>

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<p>the guide/strategies give details on how to approach the problems. Tell you what you need to know, and not what you dont need to.</p>

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<p>'Favorite SAT I preparation Aides' ---I can feel u've kinda told all the common and pretty much all the known ones. (not disagreeing anyway :-)</p>

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<p>I thought Barron's was best for vocab? or something.</p>

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<p>My comment:</p>

<p>Comprehensive section:</p>

<p>Gruber's...Best for math but really useless for CR; writing is basically a grammar review but not really oriented for people who want quick tips to score high on writing.</p>

<p>Addition: Maybe Fiske's Guide? I haven't tried it but I heard it's good..</p>

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<p>practiice:
tests - from online CB course, QAS booklets, CB 2006-2007 and earlier booklets
math - barron's and gruber
writing - barron's</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>this will def reduce the number of repetitious questions</p>

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<p>well, I have tried Fiske's guide initially but didn't continue, it's a pretty short and concise guide w/ a lot of stats discussing abt what's SAT and why do we have to give it; what does it really test; etc.etc.etc.
I think everyone can give it a try since it literally takes two days to get done w/ it. I've seen the essay section of it only and they sound not-so-promising (usual stuffs)</p>

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<p>what is best for CR and writing sections? in that order of priority.</p>

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<p>I heard a lot abt Grammatix for its CR quality.</p>

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<p>Barron's is also good for practice you know.</p>

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<p>I'm not sure which category this falls into, but I recommend smartdoodle.com. It's free and the audio/video explanations really helped me out.</p>

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<p>I bought Barron's Critical Reading Workbook & Math Workbook and so far, they are really great because it explains how to solve/answer every single question.</p>

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<p>I've never heard of smartdoodle before, the only two I went by was number2 and study hall, smart doodle indeed seems promising :)</p>

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<p>Yea Grammatix is great.</p>

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<p>grammatix CR as in reading comprehension or sentence completions? That 10 pages Read Comp section in Grammatix seems to make sense, but it feels hard applying it to actual questions. Any advice?</p>

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<p>smartdoodle looks interesting.
i did not like split screen google links in vocab section, especially useless <google usages="">.</google></p>

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<p>the kaplan writing book was too easy/too few practice
my score only got up by 90pts from an already low score....the kaplan book was only useful for the concepts</p>