<p>I just bought Gruber's SAT book for math and I ordered the Rocket Review for Reading and Writing. The Rocket Review comes in a week. Should I just wait for it? Would it even be worth it to take some reading/writing strategies from Gruber's? Or will they only give me bad strategies that will screw me up when I get to Rocket Review?</p>
<p>I bought Gruber's for math as well, but I didn't find it that useful. I took a look at the reading test sections and noticed they were worded strangely. I don't think it would hurt to take a look at their reading strategy. Just don't get too caught up in the strategies; find one that works for you and practice with it...
Of course you're taking advice from a mere novice, so take my advice with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. So how did you use the book to prepare in math? Did you do the diagnostic test at the beginning? Did you do the 101 questions thing? </p>
<p>This thing is huge and confusing. I don't know where and how to start.</p>
<p>I did the diagnostic thing and skimmed through some of the topics.
The practice test wasn't that accurate of a representation of the actual SAT math.
I bought the Gruber's book 2 weeks ago and then returned it after a few days, since I didn't find it that helpful, considering I had done some SAT math practice on my own with the blue book. If you have trouble with math, it's probably going to be pretty helpful to you, but if you already score pretty well, then it's just going to be boring. I find that the best practice has been doing a bunch of practice test questions from the collegeboard...</p>
<p>I haven't done the writing yet, but i disagree with several of his strategies for reading, such as reading the passage thoroughly first.</p>
<p>the diagnostic is actually pretty interesting, i'd recommend u do it.
its really simple if u got the skills, at the same time it also helps u understand where u're lacking. u can also review the concepts, its pretty broad, quite easy actually. its really basic.
i missed 2 questions though =s</p>
<p>I finished the whole book yesterday. You know what's funny, you guys bought it for the math section, I actually skipped the math section (I thought those math concepts are too basic) and worked on CR, writing and all practice tests. It certainly won't hurt to study these two sections. I think the grammar section is not bad too.</p>
<p>Gruber's reading strategies test at the beginning was really hardcore :/ Not the wording or the vocab, but the reasoning that it wants you to use. </p>
<p>Right now I'm just doing the math, for some reason while I'm pretty good at math, I didn't find it so BASIC as everyone else say it is. Maybe compared to Barrons, but most of the 50q tests are representative of the "hard" questions for CB tests.</p>