<p>^ For math it can be helpful.</p>
<p>Although I personally did not think his book offered anything new, I was able to return it and get my money back under his "48-hour guarantee" by filing a ticket to 2co.com (his credit card gateway; he never responded to any emails).</p>
<p>Just to let you guys know, it has been noted that this Mike Barrett person may have people on the site to promote his product...</p>
<p>alright, guys, i am not in doubt of the effectiveness of the book, at least for low scorer (i.e. 1500-1800). but one thing i am worried about is that something probably happened to his company and made him unable to give any new product anymore....#_#
i am just guessing.............~~~</p>
<p>Wait besides many people recommending the book, didn't Xiggi also recommend this book. I heard a lot of people people say that Xiggi gives the best tips. The following thread gives a more depth discussion about the grammatix book.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=53348%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=53348</a>
and one more thing, is it impossible to download the grammatix e-book. Which website are all you guys ordering the grammatix book? I know like 3 websites where I can order the Grammatix book. When you tell me the website you ordered the grammatix book, can you guys please tell if you had any trouble downloading the e-book. I want to ordert the book but am afraid, since I read the company is not functioning and I will have trouble downloading the book.</p>
<p>im reading that topic, but 45 pages ...</p>
<p>darn..</p>
<p>xiggi is not always right. He does have some good ideas, but he has some bad ones as well. One of them is do not study vocabulary. For a good score, test takers must know certain words. It is impossible to score over 750 with the average vocabulary. Grammatix is also somewhat of a hoax. It says somewhere in grammatix that just casually reading grammatix a few times for a few hours will get you results. yeah right. grammatix strategies are junk too. Not Joe Bloggs junk (a pr strategy : basically think what CB is trying to trick the average student into choosing and choose something else), but it is quite similar. Do not get it. I borrowed grammatix from a friend and looked it over. It is a pdf and it was pretty substandard stuff. Best use the 60 dollars for a nice dinner.</p>
<p>Actually, I agree with xiggi on that point. I think trying to memorize lists of vocabulary words is a waste of time and counterproductive. Read a lot, and look up unfamiliar words (my motto in life: when in doubt, consult Webster). I read everything I can get my hands on, and I consistently scored an 800 verbal (it was the math I had to practice for :rolleyes: ).</p>
<p>Hey, I'm definitely not one of those Mike Barrett promoters...
I use grammatix and let's just say it's definitely improved my CR. I suck at CR.</p>
<p>Math is still kind of shaky with grammatix, but I'd figure I'd just read concepts and understand why I got it wrong.</p>
<p>How much has it improved dude?</p>
<p>my jan06 score for CR was a 630 looking to increase 100 points</p>
<p>well...i definitely dont agree with Xiggi's idea of not remembering vocabs..after spending about 3 months memorizing vocabs, i can get 99 percent of sentence completition questions right..
anyway, memorizing words is definitely gonna help you in college when you face more high-level reading (i am a junior, but i have taken some college courses already, including english as well)</p>
<p>I did not memorize any words at all, and I usually get all the Sentence Completions except the last one</p>
<p>ROOTS PEOPLE LOOK AT THE ROOTS</p>
<p>It's not great for math but I think it is pretty good for CR and writing. It really helped me on the CR. I improved from a 690 sophomore SAT to a 75 junior PSAT. I am on block schedule and did NOT have an english class between those two tests. I was already really good at the writing (790) before grammatix, but the tools and strategies looked solid.</p>
<p>i agree with exrunner. the CR is very logical and super good. yet i dont really know how much it has raised my score...i will tell you asap as i take a practice CR</p>
<p>the math is decent, basic concepts. i suck at math anyways</p>
<p>oh..and i have no logic whatsoever.</p>
<p>it was alright on math (vocab included for math), great for CR and grammar but crap for the essay portion</p>
<p>Where did you all buy it from, im a poor HS kid trying to buy this with what little money I have, and I will hunt down the guy who made it if he steals my money or doesnt give me it </p>
<p>(based on the problems that others have been having in other threads regarding Grammatix)</p>
<p>Ordered the grammatix ebook plus hard copy on a Saturday; got the ebook right away, never got the hard copy. Book had some good tips, and was pretty well written. However, he never replied to any emails I sent; his claims to be available to personally help any student is not likely true either - every time I called his number, I got a "sorry, voice mailbox is full" message. It's been over two weeks. However, the third party credit card company will protect you - they gave me credit!</p>
<p>are the tips helpful at all?</p>
<p>i'd say some are new and useful, some are ones we've all heard before. i'll see if i can get some examples.</p>