Official SAT books review thread

<p>I have been looking for reviews of books for the SAT and it is very tedious because there are thousands of threads on this topic. Thus I came up with the idea of making one combined thread for reviewing all the books.</p>

<p>I request everyone to post their reviews on the following books (and others which I may have forgotten to mention) and rate them on a scale of 1-10.</p>

<p>CollegeBoard Official Book
Barrons + Barrons Verbal Workbook
Princeton Review
Cliffs
Grubers
Kaplan
Grammatix
Rocket Review
Arco</p>

<p>Thanx Everbody.</p>

<p>P.S. Mods, if you like the idea of this thread, please make it a sticky.
If you dont, feel free to delete it.</p>

<p>come on people..........at least reply.</p>

<p>The only book I've used so far is the Blue Book, and I'd give that a 10. I personally don't trust any other practice book because it's not made by the same company. Grammatix sounds good though. Just my two cents.</p>

<p>YA HERE IS ONE
I USED LOTS OF KAPLAN BOOKS...I FIND THEM EASY TO READ and more organized. (GIVES YOU A QUICK GENERAL OVERVIEW)
I HAVE COUPLE Princeton Review books but they include too much info...i could have just read my text book you know....(PRINCETON REVIEW GIVE YOU SURE MUCH INFO IT's BETTER IF YOU JUST READ YOU TEXT BOOK. ESP for AP EXAMS)</p>

<p>I tried BORRONS BUT THEY SUCK AT MAKING TESTS...</p>

<p>SO I SUGGEST EVERYONE TO USE KAPLAN BOOKS...</p>

<p>I Forgot The Rating...
Kaplan 100
Princeton -10
Borrons 5</p>

<p>I think everyone will agree that CB's book should receive a 10.
I'd give RocketReview a 9 because the writing portion is helpful. :) and because I like the style of the book. (my rating here is very subjective..)</p>

<p>Barrons put me to sleep, literally. I have lots of cute little drawings in the book, but, strangely...I didn't do any of the problems.</p>

<p>I was one of those losers who didn't review. It worked out okay...:)</p>

<p>c'mon guys!! keep the replies coming in!!!</p>

<p>how is cliffs??</p>

<p>the blue book gets a 10(you just can't do without all the practise tests it has)</p>

<p>barrons-maybe an 8(it's good for math and teaches ways to answer questions faster and more efficiently)</p>

<p>kaplans,princeton-I think they're over the top with all the strange questions that are way harder than the real SAT, they get my 4(and I'm being lenient here!)</p>

<p>grammatix-I tried the online course but I just ended up wasting my money.</p>

<p>10 CollegeBoard Official Book
10 CollegeBoard Official Online Course
7 Barrons
8 Princeton Review
7 Cliffs
9 Grubers
8 Kaplan
9.5 Grammatix
9.0 Rocket Review
8.5 Arco
8.5 REA
9 Maximun Sat
9 TestMasters</p>