picking between Rocket Review, Gruber's and Maximum SAT

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<p>I am already going to get Barron's 2400</p>

<p>and i am thinking about getting one of those 3
Rocket Review,
Gruber's
Maximum SAT</p>

<p>which one would help me the most in CR and writing?</p>

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<p>help? anyone?
if you don't mind, include which part of it helped you the most</p>

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<p>I thought the Gruber's was really nice.</p>

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<p>Rocket Review jumped my math almost 200 points and it's good for writing even though I was already getting above 750 there. Gruber's I heard is really good for math but the CR i heard is overdue for that. and Maximum SAT i've heard good things about although it's a bit more pricy than the other ones. The author of Maximum SAT is a member on this forum (his username is PeteSAT) you can check to see some of his posts to learn from if you end up not buying his book.</p>

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<p>i don't really need help with math. that part of the book is always wasted for me.</p>

<p>can you go into more details comparing the Critical Reading and Writing sections of the books?</p>

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<p>so gruber's is only good for math , which i don't need
if i am getting barron's 2400 already
which of Rocket Review or Maximum SAT will give me a more complete review on the CR and writing sections?</p>

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<p>grr.. bump
someone please?</p>

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<p>bump.....................</p>

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<p>Gramattix!!!</p>

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i don't really need help with math. that part of the book is always wasted for me.

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<p>Congratulations on your 800? If not, then read the math section of Rocket Review, because it is EXTREMELY helpful. </p>

<p>Honestly though, with CR in particular, there isn't all that much a prep book can answer for you. Compared to the dozens of types of grammar questions and scores of varieties of math questions, number of different kinds of CR questions is very small: vocab, line based, author's view, theme, author's purpose, compare/contrast. . . that's basically it. Any prep book can tell you to take your answers directly from the text and not outside knowledge, and any vocab list can improve your vocabulary. Aside from that, you'd benefit more from actually doing some passage problems and, more importantly, READING.</p>

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<p>thanks! I was done with college apps a month ago. So have been not thinking about SAT in month ... hehe
But sadly, even though I got 80 on PSAT math, 800 on SAT2 Math, 5 on AP calc BC as a sophomore... but kept getting 780 on SAT1 math lol ... oh well</p>