<p>Does anyone know how good this book is? Im gonna get the blue book from Collegeboard but I can't figure out which book to buy besides this. If its not good which one do you recommend? Im looking for overall prep/workout in Math, Reading Comp, and Writing. Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>If it's your first prep book, definitely go with PR.</p>
<p>Princeton Review's Cracking the New SAT was the first book I ever went through, and my first impression of it was that it was absolutely terrible. I finished all 320 pages or so (I really do have the book; I just checked :)) of its "review" in about 3 days. It manages to throw technique after technique and shortcut after shortcut at you without ever explaining how to actually do the problems.</p>
<p>But I suppose that it depends on how you're scoring. If you're scoring on the lower end of the spectrum and actually don't think you'll be able to just sit down and study the material, then perhaps PR is for you. Then again, I was scoring very lowly on my PSATs (actual low, not "CC low"), and I still got nothing out of PR's tricks.</p>
<p>If you insist on using PR's book, however, let me distill the entire book's basic premise: The first third of questions are easy; trust your conscience. The second third of questions are medium; work through them, check your answer, but don't spend too much time on them. The third set of questions are hard; the "evil ETS" will try to trick you; do not use answers straight from the problem if it's a math problem as it's too obvious; don't go for any simple answer; soon you'll be down to 2 or 3 choices and your chances for success are great: Guess!</p>
<p>And of course some standard tricks on manipulating fractions, basic algebra, and memorizing the square roots of 2, 3, and 5, because it'll be easier to "approximate" an answer rather than resort to your calculator.</p>
<p>If you can't tell, I'm not particularly fond of PR's offering :) It left a bad taste in my mouth, I suppose.</p>
<p>BTW, can anyone tell me the deal with the Adam Robinson of Princeton Review's text, and the Adam Robinson of the RocketReview Revolution? I'm assuming they're the same people, but I can't see how the same author can write such useless strategies and filler text in one book and then concurrently write an interesting, useful book on the exact same subject. Note that I haven't actually read Adam's other book (assuming they're the same people), but I've read excerpts/parts of his site and other people seem to praise it. It just seemed a little odd to me.</p>
<p>I recommend the blue book from College Board. PR never appealed to me: it was just basically what syn recapped in the post above. College Board, IMO, makes better review books. </p>
<p>Also, consider getting "10 Real SAT's." It's great for practice, and it tells you how to score your practice tests to see what you would have gotten, had it been a real session of the SAT. I have a version I bought in 2003 or 2004, I don't know if any other versions have come out.</p>