Anybody heard of the free princeton SAT tests? They offer two free SAT tests month near my location and i was wondering if any one has taken them or are they bound to be any good?
I never took one of their free SAT tests, but I did take a free ACT. My experience is that the test isn’t accurate in difficulty (i.e. not designed by actual test-makers) or material. The Princeton Review also tends to deflate scores so that you, as a student, will be persuaded to take their prep course (excellent marketing strategy but don’t fall into the trap).
If you’re just looking for some free test-taking practice in a strict, timed environment that simulates test day, go for it, but take the score you get with a grain of salt.
It is a standard marketing strategy and most students do poorly on a test that they are barely familiar with.
Of course this scares the students and they end up signing up for the prep course. I urge you to take your preparation in your hand. If you need a higher quality practice test, then just download the practice test from Collegeboard’s website: https://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-practice-test
Go to a public library or a quiet place, turn off your cell phone and take the tests as close to actual conditions as you can. This will give you a good baseline, if you are not familiar with the test format, your score will take a bit of a hit, but this will be a good way to get a sense of what the SAT is about. You can do the same thing with the ACT as well.
You will not find this advice anywhere because there is no money to be made with it.
Thanks guys I have taken the real sat once and my scores were really low. I just thought if tbis is free then practice is practice right? @SATQuantum @EngineBus2015
The option @SATQuantum has outlined for you above is also free! And it has the added benefit of being a real college board test. Not all practice is practice. Some of it is just marketing 
I’m buying the blue book along with the online course by cb but should I not do my Princeton 11 practice test book? @pckeller
Well not everyone agrees about this, but I have never seen a reason to use fake practice tests. Between the blue book and the online course, you have 17 tests. That is really more than anyone needs. But use them properly! Don’t just take one after another. After you take one, go back over it until you can explain every question. Pretend you are training to be an SAT tutor. You would need to be prepared to handle any question, so go over the test with that kind of thoroughness. Google the questions you are not sure of. (Most times, your search will lead you right back to this forum!) If you do this for each practice test you take, section by section, I bet you will find that you feel ready to go long before you run out of tests. Remember that it is not TAKING practice tests that raises your score. It’s the review you do afterwards.
@CallmeB You are getting some excellent advice from @pckeller.
And I highly recommend you to stick with the official SAT tests for practice, they are well written and the actual SAT will be very similar. Plus it is very important to get a hang of how the concepts are tested on the SAT, and a lot of the easy math questions are repackaged from older tests.
best wishes.