<p>Hey everybody, than you for reading this!!!! :)</p>
<p>I just took a free practice SAT at my school today (offered at other schools as well, maybe a county or state-wide affair?) and I almost feel like I got ripped off. I mean, we even got to keep our test booklets and we were lectured about how great Kaplan is. </p>
<p>The test seemed waaaaaaayyyyy too esay for me considering that I did not study at all (I laughed at some questions!). My mom looked at the test questions and felt that they seemed pretty easy as well. Not to sound pretentious, but this wasn't exactly challenging.</p>
<p>What do you think? Was the test water-down and simplified to quell anxious students? I would appreciate some help from somebody who took a practice Kaplan test and the real SAT, thanks! :)</p>
<p>I think in terms of reading kaplan is really easy, in math too but in writing its about accurate. And for the easy questions well there will always be some easy questions to cater to people of all levels of intelligence. Ur probably smart so those question may seem like a joke, but other people need those questions to even get a 500 in a section</p>
<p>Oh thanks! I really had no idea, but some of the English questions were in fact fairly easy. The essay did seam fairly realistic (I asked my sister, who took the SAT four times) but I would be so happy if the math section wasn’t too harder on the real thing than it was on the practice! ;)</p>
<p>Oh, I don’t plan on using it over the next two years. There was a free “practice SAT” offered at my school yesterday, and I checked it out to see what it would be like. </p>
<p>I’m assuming that the poster above either had a bad experiece with Kaplan or do you know if their practice tests are representative of the actual SAT? Please let me know! ;)</p>
<p>In my opinion Kaplan gets the closest to the actual SAT, atleast from my experience. Nothing beats the actual practice tests of course (do the online course ones, 6 of them, and all from the blue book, 8 of them) but barrons the math is too hard and the writing is messed up. And for Princeton the math is too easy. Kaplan is slightly easier, but I guess the closest you’ll get. But if you practice barrons math it’ll help push up your scores in math because after it you’ll find CB math easy</p>
<p>Oh, I had no idea.Thanks for the tips on the books! </p>
<p>How old are these “bought SATs” because if there past a certain age, does that mean that there are easy or still good? Has Kaplan helped other people because I may take a course/deciding to study on my own…not entirely sure yet. Thanks for the feedback! ;)</p>
<p>BTW, when I said that “I laughed at some questions,” I wasn’t trying to sound bombastic…I was just in a really good mood and very relaxed going in. </p>
<p>This may account for some of the happiness in finding easy questions, but I’m wondering if it was a fluke or did Kaplan choose to give out an easy test so people would take their courses?</p>
<p>alot of kaplan’s writing section contains questions that are way way different from the actual SAT. I used it before i tried real CB SAT questions and the result was pretty devastating; kaplan is useless…completely different.</p>
<p>the tests are pretty much the same since the new SAT has been released. so probably 2005 thru present tests are the same quality. there’s alot of materials(released tests–over 12 sets of actual SATs) from the collegeboard u can practice on, and their questions are very accurate, so there’s no reason to use princeton rev/kaplan/barrons.</p>
<p>I hope that College Board’s practice tests are better than their “question of the day.” I felt (and my sister) that those questions were not representative of the actual SAT…but I’ll check out those full practice tests.</p>