<li><p>For those who bought Preparing and Applying and took a practice test there, is the actual test harder/easier/same as the actual SSAT? </p></li>
<li><p>Also, for the Princeton Review hit parade word list, are alot of the words reused?</p></li>
<li><p>What would be a general score (overall) for an 85th percentile SSAT score (boys)?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks :-)</p>
<p>I took the SSAT and used the Princeton Review book. Are a lot of the words re-used? The answer is yes. I took the SSAT and learned most of the words on the hit parade and back for more list, and there were at least ten that appeared again.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I don't know whether the princeton review tests are harder or easier then the real test, but I studied out of a Kaplan SSAT prep guide and I honestly felt it was harder. This may be because your nerves kick in when you are taking it for real and you don't think straight or it may have been harder. I cannot really say.</p>
<p>Look into the Kaplan book as well, it helped me a lot.</p>
<p>I used a myriad of books. In the practice tests, the verbal was very similar. If you get, lets say 44 out of 60 right on the practice, the chance of that on the real test is very similar. On the math part, I got perfect on nearly all the practice tests, but 7 wrong on the real test. I'm not sure if it is because I was sick on the day of the test or not. The reading part of the real test is definitely harder, for me. Most of the questions are similar, but the answers are much more complicated. In the end, I had to guess usually between 2 or 3 very similar answers after eliminating the bad ones. The passages on the real test is much longer. They normall take up at least 1/4 to 1/2 the page in text size similar to the type i'm writing in. Also, the Essay part, there is only ONE page to write on. My practice books gave me two pages, on the real test, there is ONE page.</p>