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<p>Read what I wrote about Gruber’s and source books. You should not use the tests in the book anymore than you should use the tests in Chung’s book.</p>
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<p>Not at all. </p>
<p>Your opinion is just as valid as mine, and perhaps even more since you are a CURRENT student going through the process. Also, we are individuals and we react to different teaching methods differently. I happen to strongly believe that going to a number of official tests is more important than spending time on tests of questionable value, and ESPECIALLY the ones that are made harder than the typical SAT. </p>
<p>My recommendation to you would be to SHARE with this forum how Chung’s tips helped you solve official questions that challenged you. This will help others, and along the way show how correct you were to look beyond my opinion.</p>
<p>I would like nothing better to be proven wrong. :)</p>
<p>^ They did steal it/or get lost in the mail. I contacted Amazon and they sent another one with UPS (first one was with USPS) with free shipping for my troubles (this time the mailman came for me to sign it).</p>
<p>Amazon has amazing customer service, that’s basically it. That’s why I love Amazon.</p>
<p>Just my opinion, but i think its overrated.</p>
<p>Studiusmaximus, do you think you can provide an example of a difficult SAT math question and the Dr. Chung’s tip that helped you learn how to solve it? </p>
<p>And also, can anyone else who has used his book give their opinion on if it’s worth it to buy?</p>
<p>Sure, I’d be glad to compile some of the most helpful tips within Chung’s at a later date. Once I get through the Blue Book’s tests, I’ll see which tips address the highest frequency of questions. </p>
<p>I’d like to note that I have no problem with tests harder than the SAT. This is probably atypical, but it’s because I’m concurrently studying for the AMC/AIME/USAMO. The way I see it, the more I learn, the better. I want to become as proficient as I can at solving ANY math problem, with SAT problems coming naturally to me as an added benefit. With that being said, I still find Chung’s to address a healthy portion of what’s tested on the harder SAT Math questions.</p>
<p>real talk, Gruber’s math workbook is pretty crappy for those scoring 700+. it won’t help you get an 800, just like it didn’t help me. i was already scoring 700ish back in freshman year, and decided to get Gruber’s per xiggi’s word. didn’t help me much, i still slip and fail to reach 800.</p>
<p>Amazon is so great. Last year, my kindle inexplicably stopped working. I notified Amazon, and a new one was in my hands within days. Gotta love 'em.</p>
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<p>What is this “real talk?” Did I tell you to get Gruber’s to improve your 700? Did you read one of my posts of six years ago?</p>
<p>Please do write a review about this book as soon as possible!</p>
<p>I actually ordered this book and will see if it helps…i’ve heard many great things…Plus I think overpreparing is better than being just “prepared”</p>
<p>I heard this book would help people scoring over 650 get an 800, so i boguht it seeing as I got a 690 my first SAT. The book honestly was not worth the price i. Sure I read the tips - they helped…barely. The tests I barely used, as they were impossbile- one question took me like 10 minutes. The explanations are brief and I couldn’t understand some. Although I got a 740 and could have gotten a 790 without my 2 careless mistakes, the book did not help. The questions on the SAT are not close to hard enough to need Chungs. I personally used Princeton review and I thought that sufficed.</p>
<p>Which Princeton review book did u use?^</p>
<p>Is pr review good for reading, writing AND math?</p>
<p>Yea LMAO basically is PR good for SAT prep?^</p>
<p>The Princeton Review is as accurate as Barrons.</p>
<p>Is that a good thing?^ lol cuz I finished the barrons 2400 and it’s a lot harder than the actual sat tests in CB</p>
<p>Lol sorry for sounding stupid I was just making sure cause some people say that it’s only good for some sections</p>
<p>I can’t really speak for CR because my scores really suck… like badly. But I thought it was great for Math- had some challenging problems including for me the dreaded functions. For writing I thought it was great with an amazing amount of excersizes. Reading I personally think it was terrible. Math good(esp the 11 PT-my strategy was to finish the math sections in 15 minutes:works great for me) Writing I mostly used the Manual. Although I think both are good- I would obviously pick the manual. Also, my first SAT: I don’t know vocab but I have a great memory. I decided to memorize the 250 words from the manual- “Hit Parade”.(bad idea) Either it was a coincidence or luck but I only got 2 wrong with that vocab - better than memorizing 700 words. People told me I was lucky all the words reappeared haha. But overall I think the manual is great, and the 11PT is good but not for reading. My real score was 30-60 points higher.</p>
<p>Okay in summary: Manual :
Reading(:/): good strategies-awful,useless, unrepresentative practice( good for sentence completions)
Math(very good) very good practice/most types of problems/easy to understand
Writing(very good): all possible errors INCLUDING idioms, perfect essay strategy- great practice</p>
<p>My first SAT all I used was PR(no BB till second time around) so it worked for me.( Raised 300 points) If you have over a 2100 , you probably know everything already.</p>
<p>feel free to ask anything else.</p>