ITT: we list books which we did not find useful

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>I got good reviews for the "Bootcamp for your brain" book. Yet I found it pretty much useless. It glossed over many of the sthings needed to succeed, and I found it taught some stuff at an elementary level.</p>

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<p>Princeton Review's CR/Writing workbook is complete garbage.</p>

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<p>Line your bird cage with every book published by:
PR
Barron's
Kaplan
McGraw Hill</p>

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<p>Kaplan Critical Reading.
Nearly everything published by Peterson's or REA.</p>

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<p>Oh, and the College Board's own explanations for the Writing section of their online course (the one with the add'l tests) are, surprisingly, garbage. Or at least they were as of a year ago. Who'da thought?</p>

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<p>@Godfatherbob: Why did you list Barron's? I used their books for the SAT and scored over 100 points higher on each section (after finishing the relevant book for each section).</p>

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<p>Let's see....the 12(11?) practice tests from Kaplan are terrible, terrible, terrible. The math questions are exponentially easier than the actual, and their CR doesn't ask the same types of questions that actually appear on the test.</p>

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<p>I agree. Kaplan is a waste of time and money. Practice tests are terrible and vocab list is absurd.</p>

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<p>Any book that says "2400" on it appears to be for people who actually don't want to get 2400's. If you're getting a perfect score, you shouldn't be so short on time on the CR that you have to skim the passages or guess on vocab.</p>

<p>Also, I have yet to find a writing book that adequately explains the sentence correction line between wrong and imperfect sentences (essentially, when to put E). I've also never found a good list of idioms or prepositions in print, and the explanations of parallelism are faulty at best.</p>

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<p>The worst piece of advice that PR and Barron's give: don't guess/don't answer too many questions if ur not sure.</p>

<p>I used to leave out 12 questions on CR each time...
The last time i did the SAT...i just guessed (or thought i guessed) and ended up with 800</p>

<p>the key: just answer everything and don't agonize over ur choices</p>