<p>So I'm taking the SAT on March 1st. I just got Gruber's New SAT two days ago and it seems like an amazing book, but it's really long and the practice questions seem too easy. I have also been studying from the College Board blue book and Barron's How to Prepare for the SAT.</p>
<p>So from each book, what do you guys recommend I should focus on? What should I ignore? How reliable are Barron's and Gruber's practice tests? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Each source has its own strengths.
Grubers is best for math, and math alone.
Barron's is good for everything, but make sure you realize its going to much harder than the real thing. </p>
<p>About practice tests.</p>
<p>I find the best thing you can do for yourself is use CB tests only. That way you do not adulterate your mind with the other patched up, irrelevant, ill-representing work other companies call practice SATs. :), If you use CB only for practice, you will, soon enough, know exactly why a right answer is right and what a wrong answer looks like. You will adopt its nature.</p>
<p>What if you already finished all the Blue-Book tests? It really stinks too because I averaged 650-700 on the practice tests(all 8 of them) and got a 560 on the real thing, which was really discouraging. I felt that I was very familiar with the answers that CB would try to fool you with and what seemed right and how to eliminate choices. I heard that Princeton Review comes close, but I don't know what to look at.</p>