<p>do you have any recommendations on ways to prepare for the SAT without taking classes and buying books that costs hundreds of dollars?</p>
<p>Books don't cost hundreds of dollars...</p>
<p>Haha, thecomisar made me laugh out loud.</p>
<p>you can't even shell out 13 bucks for 1 book? .. look for best books on forums or book reviews ~ + you have internet access so that says something .. >.></p>
<p>There's a free practice test on the CB website, though I'm too lazy to find the exact link.</p>
<p>XD. Well, seriously. Even if you pay the exorbitant bookstore prices, it really isn't that bad. $20 for the blue book. $17 for Barron's 2400. About $15 each for SAT subject test books. And those prices can be greatly reduced by shopping on Amazon.</p>
<p>Buy books cheap! amazon.com, half.com are places to get good used books, then practice, practice, practice!</p>
<p>just go to your library</p>
<p>Yeah, my mom got me prep books from the local library (which, of course, I never opened, being the good student that I am).</p>
<p>Umm., you could also just go to a bookstore and read the books there. You can take notes on the books as well as determine for yourself which books are the best and then purchase those.</p>
<p>I have done this for some of our book reviews when I was pretty sure that the book was worthless, but needed to review it anyway (Im wont name names to protect the insipid).</p>
<p>^ Yeah, but you can't actually take the tests that way. Even if you could somehow not write in the book, they might be disgruntled to see a kid hunker down with one of their books for a couple hours XD</p>
<p>Just buy a frapp. Do you know the margins they have on those iced coffee drinks? Trust me they will be making more than enough $$$.</p>
<p>I regularly sit at Borders or Barnes and Noble for hours on end. Admittedly, I am an adult, so maybe that's why they don't bother me.</p>
<p>AND thecomisar is correct that it would not make sense to take a test in the bookstore for so many reasons, but for reading the strategies and completing practice problems, it may be cost-effective for someone who has a tight budget.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's true.</p>
<p>Or ask seniors for used test prep books (the ones that haven't been heavily marked).</p>
<p>$30-50 can give you a very good prep on the SAT (less if you borrow/buy used).</p>
<p>I'm a cheapskate, I just sneak my calculator and my notebook into the bookstore, and I take the tests on my notebook haha. </p>
<p>Although if the book turns out to be useful I usually buy it just to support the publisher. I almost never mark in the books though, even after I buy them.</p>
<p>Get CB book and go to ebay. Hope that your "cheap" test copy comes in whole. If it does, you just saved yourself a big money.</p>
<p>um i think the OP Meant that he was lookin for classes/tutors that werent 1000 dollars</p>
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um i think the OP Meant that he was lookin for classes/tutors that werent 1000 dollars
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<p>well, the OP did say, "without taking classes" . . .</p>
<p>All the people suggested great advice for SAT prep if you are on a budget.</p>
<p>you can get a great score without expensive materials/money. </p>
<p>My parents used to be very poor and they found ways to get the resources and practice they needed to pass the GRE, which is an extremely abtuse and difficult test for foreigners that has WAY harder reading and math sections than the SAT. </p>
<p>Answer: Yes.
How to do it: Get Creative and be adriot.</p>
<p>Revolution Prep is around $500.</p>