<p>Will working with books to help with IQ or supposedly to do so, or to improve critical thinking and logic skills help with the SAT I?
and do puzzles help with this?</p>
<p>ie do I have a reasonable excuse to do my sudoku and kakuro (however it's spelled) in place of my normal studying sometimes?</p>
<p>nope :</p>
<p>those sodoku (sp?) things are fun though</p>
<p>Working on IQ stuff won't help you, though, but practicing on the actual SAT should be a helluva lot more effective.</p>
<p>The SAT is a reasoning test, though.</p>
<p>People all over will try to say it isn't, but look at some of the questions. A great deal of them you can solve through reasoning, if you can't short-cut 'em.</p>
<p>CR is a great example of basic reasoning exercises, and math has a lot of questions where 80% of the wrong answers can be eliminated just by reasoning it out.</p>
<p>First is knowing the necessary material, second is practice, third is reasoning IMO.</p>
<p>thanks for the posts, but what is IMO?</p>
<p>In my opinion.</p>
<p>one must build experience with the test inorder to do well on sat-IMO start early for this test.</p>
<p>SAT is a reasoning test, but studying something completely unrelated and taking IQ tests wouldn't do you any good. Just stick to the actual material...</p>