<p>I'm a sophomore who has just signed up for the March SAT. Now, I have very little experience with standardized test preparation and this will be my first time ever taking a significant standardized test. </p>
<p>I've done some reading and have found that Barron's 2400 book is one of the best prep books for those looking to achieve a high score (I'm aiming for a 2300+). My question is -- will this one book be enough? Or should I plow through other prep books as well? </p>
<p>Blue Book (official SAT Study Guide), Princeton Review and Barron's----u can try all of them. 2300+--that's a pretty tough target at first try esp when u r a sophomore, u must first of all tell us abt ur scores in the pratice tests.
best of luck!</p>
<p>Thank you all for your responses. I'll get the blue book, Barron's 2400 and the princeton review. I've never taken a practice test, but I suppose I can post back here once I've taken one! </p>
<p>I realize a 2300+ is extremely tough to achieve (and on my first try it's probably unlikely), but I still want to aim for it!</p>
<p>2300 is way up there. One book will probably not be sufficient and you will need The Official SAT Study Guide or the Official Online Course for tests.</p>
<p>Up your Score is good b/c it is so easy and entertaining to read, but it does NOT cover any advanced strategies. </p>
<p>I would recommend (assuming you have a fair amount of time to prepare)that you first read "Up your Score" then do a couple of practice tests (Online Course or Official SAT Study Guide). Review these tests by reading the explanations and reworking any problem you missed or omitted. Next, begin reading 2400 and continue doing practice problems.</p>
<p>The one glaring weakness of the Official SAT Study Guide is that the sentence completions are far too easy.</p>
<p>To clarify, The Official... (Blue Book) does not contain real SATs. The tests it has were "practice" tests from when the New SAT was being developed. I know this because one of my former students was in college and his college had the exams administered to their English classes to help CB determine accuracy of their New tests; they gave the students sections of New ques and compared their scores on these New sections to their Old SAT scores. </p>
<p>He forwarded a few of the sections to me, and big surprise all of them showed up in the Blue Book.</p>
<p>But ever since October 05 the vocab difficulty has risen dramatically, but the "level" of voacb is not consistent with that in the Blue book, the Blue Book is just too easy.</p>
<p>If you are responding to my post then please allow me to clarify my statement. I was commenting on the difficulty of the SC questions in the Blue Book relative to the actual SAT. What I have seen is that they are easier than those on the actual SAT. Students and friends of students have also commented similarly. Maybe, we are wrong; it wouldnt be the first time.</p>
<p>Also in CB online, SC is comparatively pretty easy, so I second Chris on this particular matter. guess Barron's can be the best alternative then (not saying that BB is NOT to be used anyway) Underground study guide is a good one since it gives a good attitude in an amusing manner to 'NEW" students.</p>
<p>My opinion would be: since you enjoy the barron style, take a few other company prep books and just take the practice tests in them. If you score well on those as well, then you're set. If you don't, then go back and see what that book teaches differently than barrons.</p>
<p>Do get the underground guide before (under conditions that u've enough time) it helps in a kinda way to lessen anxieties if u have any (I think I mentioned it somewhere else) Trust me, it's NOT going to be REALLY good help though, but still a fun reading is not that bad to be done before the test isn't it ?</p>