<p>2 questions:</p>
<li>I have good scores on verbal ( 720) and writing ( 710) but my math score ( 640) is mediocre. I want to improve the math score. If I focused my reviewing on the math secion, and did better on it, but didnt do too well on the others, will this be a “red flag” for colleges
( gonna apply to penn ed)</li>
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<p>2.what is the best book for math help?</p>
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<p>Art of Problem Solving Volume 1, and satmathpro.com.</p>
<p>The former isn't aimed towards the SAT, but it can change the way you approach math itself.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>These are not the best, just some suggestions that I'm sure will help you improve, but then again, I'm not even a freshman. :)</p>
<p>Most people would agree that The Official SAT Study Guide is a great source of math, critical reading and writing practice problems. I also think Gruber's math section is pretty good and worth working through.</p>
<p>I would not worry too much about my critical reading and writing scores dropping. Schools tend to look at the highest scores only.</p>
<p>When you said "penn ed," which penn school were you talking about?</p>
<p>Karl</p>
<p>the university of penn tehe</p>
<p>either arts and sciences or nursing:</p>
<p>I finished all the math in teh blue book......... is the barrons one ok?</p>
<p>does satmathpro.com use real problems?</p>
<p>thanks all!</p>
<p>If you already finished the math in the blue book I'd say work on some of the math from the old SAT books. There are a few types of questions that were eliminated from the math section, but in general most problems are very similar to the ones now. If not, work with the PR book</p>
<p>I do not think Barron's is a very good one.</p>
<p>Why do you say that Karl? I just ordered Barron's Math Workbook based on its great reviews; did I make a mistake?</p>
<p>I worked through a couple of barron's books a couple of years ago with some students. The just didn't seem like real SAT tests. There were problems that I though were inappropriately hard, inappropriately easy, etc. (Who knows, maybe they have improved the quality of the last two years.) </p>
<p>Now, I am not saying that you cannot learn anything from the barron's book. Simply practicing with help, regardless of the book. I just think there are other book's, like Gruber's, that are closer to the real thing. Speaking of real tests, in the past I have done GRE math sections with students who have finished the real SAT test. There is a book with real GRE's and it a pretty good one. (GRE math is at about the same level as SAT math.)</p>
<p>I hope my thoughts help. Good luck.</p>