Need Help Deciding Books

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<p>I need help deciding which book I should study from, I've been through a lot of the threads on CC and I still can't decide.</p>

<p>I basically need a book that would help me on the Verbal section, but where I live they don't have many of those that a specific for each section so i'm fine with buying ones that include all the sections. I don't own the BB, nor do I have any Princeton Review book other than Word Smart 1 and 2. Which book do you think I should go for? I am looking for something that would explain the types of questions and then have an exercise and then explain the answers of the exercise and then practice test with explanations. </p>

<p>I know the BB doesn't have explanations, which I think sucks, I can't afford to buy their online course thingy. I don't know how well the BB explains each question type and how many exercises it has with answers or example questions to help understand the verbal section. Is it good enough that a person can manage just on answers that have been posted on that BB answers/explanations index? Is it better than Cracking the Sat by Princeton review?</p>

<p>Cracking the Sat on the other hand or even 11 Practice Sat by them (btw which one should a person get if they are at my level?), doesn't have questions made by the real test makers, which is kinda sad but I could always complete Cracking the Sat and then do some Real Sat Exams with answers for practice. and I'm sure cracking the sat does have 4 real sat papers with explanations in it. but I'm still confused if that's what I should get.</p>

<p>Other than that I want to know if im on the right track for sat vocab prep. I am planing to do word smart 1 and then 2 Sat hit parade and then do the top 400+ words that have been posted on CC. Do you think this is the right way to go about it? </p>

<p>Although I know I am very far behind considering I will be giving the sat in October this year (might retake in November, btw does collegeboard tell the college we are applying that we retook?) I still want to aim for 2300+.</p>

<p>I would really appreciate it if you could help me figure out how I should go about this. Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>take the blue book.</p>

<p>period. nothing else remains to be said.</p>

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<p>SilverTurtle the smart one also suggested Princeton Review might be good too but the BB is the most important.</p>

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<p>Thank you guys, I read through the part of SilverTurtle’s guide where he mentioned that just now (will read the whole thing later as well, seems awesome). </p>

<p>/goes to go buy the Blue Book</p>

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<p>blue book
grubers for math(if your math score is below 650)
Dr Chungs( if your score is at 650+ and you want higher)
Direct Hits
Barrons 2400
a few administered test from the past.
Have fun with your 2300 :D</p>

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<p>Hehe, Megafund, those are a lot of books, I went to get the Blue Book today but they only had the first version, so im waiting for tomorrow to see if they can get the second version for me. I doubt it though… =[</p>

<p>I have started the Direct Hits list today, I’ll try and get it done as soon as possible and then move on to other lists while revising. </p>

<p>I have Gruber’s complete Math workbook, is that what you are refering to @Megafund, because I went through it and it was full of extremely difficult questions, even the practice tests were mostly all difficult questions which didn’t seem like ones that would normally be tested on the SAT, but I don’t know for sure because I haven’t ever given the SAT, though I have solved SAT questions here and there. also i think I can go directly to some highlevel maths book that gives faster ways to solve those tricky time taking questions. Any alternates to Dr Chungs that have online ebooks, or pdfs, or you could tell me the names and I’ll try and find them myself, because I know for sure they don’t have Dr Chungs where I live.</p>

<p>They don’t even have Barron’s 2400, but do have the normal Barrons sat guide, not sure if thats good enough.</p>