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<p>Actually, he never did that. He started with 3, then added 2 to get to 5, and another 2 to get to 7. This corresponds to the line of 2/2/3.</p>
<p>I’ve started to notice a small trend in these tips.</p>
<p>I seem to get 2/3 of those practice questions right only on each tip.</p>
<p>The 2 the questions seem to be based on the actual tips/SAT like, while one of the question just wishes to throw you off. Meaning they try to add in an extra twist to the problem. But that’s just speculation, I have only been to two tips so far, so don’t be discouraged from the book.</p>
<p>Maybe the twist is added so that you can get used to the curveballs thrown at you in the real SAT.</p>
<p>After looking inside the book, I think that this book might be legit.</p>
<p>^It definitely is legit. Trust me. But the questions are just a bit harder then the SAT. Maybe bit is a understatement. It is ALOT harder then the SAT. But so far it is a good book.</p>
<p>So far I recommend it.</p>
<p>Hmm, I’m scoring low 600s for practice tests. Do u think that it would be best for me to use Grubers to go to the 700s range?</p>
<p>^ I don’t like how Gruber is dis-organized and basic. It doesn’t give a organized way of showing what to do. So it is a pretty stupid book in my opinion. It didn’t help me one bit. </p>
<p>Chungs book is more organized into:</p>
<p>Tips –> Examples (which explain the tip) —> SAT Practice Questions (On the particular tip) —> At the end, the 20 math practice tests.</p>
<p>About 70% of the book however, are the math practice tests, so if you need practice other then the BLUE BOOK, this book is very good.</p>
<p>However, as many say, and I agree with xiggi also, that the Blue Book is the only source of ACTUAL, LEGIT practice, Dr Chung is as good as any other third party book, so you might as well get something that actually helps you (Chung) then Gruber.</p>
<p>Update:</p>
<p>I just gone through some tips. They are intimidating, however, I am getting the hang of it. I now understand EVERY single tip that I have went through so far. Thanks to the examples and practices he gives after it which are basically the meat of the informative part of the book. </p>
<p>Reading through the tips/examples/practices, I feel like I learned something unlike Grubers. </p>
<p>His explanations are OK. None that I still haven’t understood. They are brief explanations, nothing small or too long.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update!</p>
<p>That was the problem I felt with the book. I probably skipped about 10 tips because “just too hard to learn” and was better off doing anythign else even guess and test. I had extreme trouble with tip 2 also haha</p>
<p>and the SAT doesn’t throw curveballs like the one in this book. The SAT problems allow like 1 minute per question. and the hard ones come at like question 15.</p>
<p>^ Tip 2 was easy, other then that one problem (practice question 2 from tip 2) :)</p>
<p>If you want help, im here :)</p>
<p>The book is hard, yes. However, as StudiousMaximus said, it “seperates the men from the boys”. </p>
<p>You can’t give up on the tips. You have to understand them, even if it takes 30 minutes. </p>
<p>Just a heads up… It took me 30 minutes to fully understand tip 4.</p>
<p>Personally, I solved the example in Tip 4 by just making up numbers… I found that to be much easier. (I used 90 as the total number of students and worked from there). But whatever works best for you, I guess haha.</p>
<p>^ Substitution only works unto a certain degree. What if they gave fractions such as 2/23, Then 3/91? </p>
<p>They did this twist in the SAT Practice question 3 in tip 4. </p>
<p>Rather then one denominator in all four boxes, there were different denominators. So substitution would have took 40548290 minutes to do. Chungs way of doing it was much more faster and more accurate/less chance of messing up.</p>
<p>I got this book 2 days ago. I went through the 50 tips and took the first 2 practice tests already working about 8 hours per day. I think it has helped, you just have to understand how to apply the tips to a variation of problems.</p>
<p>Jd, what did you get on the practice tests?</p>
<p>Oh i didn’t bother timing or making it official or anything, but they’re pretty hard. I would usually get 15-17/20 problems.</p>
<p>I like Dr. Chung’s too. That being said, I scored a 610 on the May SAT (and quite a bit higher in the other sections) so I wanted to bump up my score as much as possible. I got 640 on a BB test before I started Dr. Chung’s and after about 10 practice tests in it and the 50 tips I got 730 on a BB test (or was it 740?). Either way, it helped me a bunch… but I think I would’ve benefited from it more if my score was a little higher to begin with. So if you are scoring below 650 then it’s probably not a good place to start.</p>
<p>I started this summer by taking a diagnostic SAT out of the Blue Book. I got a 650-ish on the Math section. </p>
<p>I have since found and used the SAT Math Bible. </p>
<p>Yesterday, I took another Blue Book test (test #7). I was 1/4th of a raw point away from a 800 on the math section. My raw math score was a 53.25, which translates to 750-800. If I had gotten a 53.5, I would have gotten an 800 on the section. </p>
<p>Reviewing my answers, I found that I made a couple of dumb errors - nothing that couldn’t be fixed with a little more diligence. </p>
<p>So the Bible seems like a decent alternative :). YMMV. </p>
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<p>Update: Chung EXPECTS you to know some of the concepts of the tip before doing them. You cannot start out with a 500 on the SAT and go straight to Chungs book. His explanations to questions are geared towards those who steadily get 600-650+. </p>
<p>For example. In explanations to questions, he expects you to know how to get a certain height with previous knowledge. </p>
<p>For example, in a isosceles triangle, with 60, 60 bases. He expected us to already have found out the height of the triangle using the special triangles cause of 30, 60, 90. Though I have done it, I am just saying that to those who get lower then 600 on the SAT Math, it might not come naturally to them. Since Chung skips this part and goes straightly to the height already.</p>
<p>So this book is specifically geared towards those who have a descent amount of knowledge, since his explanations aren’t too lenient. They are easily understandable, if only you have a good storage of knowledge beforehand.</p>
<p>okay I ordered this book and i got a 750 on my last test without it, do you think it could get me to an 800?</p>