<p>Hello, everyone.</p>
<p>I am appearing for the SAT in October and I just bought Kaplan's 12 SATs prep book, because I have almost exhausted PR's 12 SATs and I'd like to do more unofficial SATs before I attempt the last 5 Practice Tests on the Blue Book. </p>
<p>Could anyone help me do the following comparisons:</p>
<ul>
<li>Kaplan vs Official SATs (level of difficulty of each section etc)</li>
<li>Kaplan vs PR </li>
<li>Kaplan vs Other Prep Book, for example Barrons (I personally think that the other prep books are unduly hard. Does Kaplan fall into the same bracket?)</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I only did the reading and writing sections in this, so I’ll talk only about them. I found the writing sections to be more simple than those found in the BB. However, they have, of course, the same errors and ideas you need to be practicing on, so I’d say that they are average. </p>
<p>While reading sections have somewhat easy questions, I’d say that it is still good for those who are not very familiar with reading or SAT as a whole (not assuming that you are one of these people). So, I’d say that the Reading difficulty in it is slightly below average.</p>
<p>I don’t have PR, but I tried Barrons and I can give you my thoughts on that. Barrons is actually harder than Kaplan overall I’d say. </p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that what’s hard for me might be easy for you and vice versa, so try the Kaplan out and tell me your opinion. :)</p>
<p>-HelloKitty</p>
<p>I’m taking the SAT in Oct. too!</p>
<p>I’ve completed all the BB Tests. From what I’ve noticed, Barron’s, PR, and Kaplan are all a bit harder than the BB tests.
Then again, it depends on the types of passages/questions you get.
For more actual Collegeboard SATs, I just google it and a few pop up.
I think there’s one site called sat quantum, which has a few tests with its answers in pdf format.
Good luck to both of us!</p>
<p>I’ve taken the Kaplan tests and in my opinion the Math in Kaplan is much easier than the Math questions in the CB Blue book. </p>
<p>I would say the writing is close to the Blue book questions but if I have to choose a side, I would say Kaplan might be slightly easier. </p>
<p>Because the Critical Reading section is the most difficult section to emulate, I would suggest you to stick with the official SAT practice tests. Personally, I found the Critical Reading passages with mixed accuracy. Some passages I found like the Kaplan book to be close in difficulty with the Blue book passages. There are however some passages that were unusually long and unlike the official sat reading passages. In my opinion I also think that some of the questions in the Kaplan book are very arguable. I’d say every practice test, I’d find 2 questions or so where I strongly believed I had the right answer with good proof too but when I read the answer explanations, I found both answer choices to be fairly correct. If I had to choose a side, I’d say that the reading section in Kaplan isn’t necessarily harder, but that its just somewhat different.</p>
<p>What it boils down to is that if Kaplan CR deserves a try.</p>