Princeton Review harder than real thing?

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<p>Actually, the fact that it gets asked so much indicates that </p>

<p>1) people don’t know how to use the ‘search’ feature of this forum
and/or
2) there is no definitive answer, therefore there is no consensus</p>

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<p>There’s a large consensus that CB tests are far more useful than PR tests. There isn’t a consensus about the relative difficulty of PR for the very fact that it is unreliable.</p>

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<p>^ My point exactly</p>

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<p>lol @ the OP…</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/541760-cancelled-my-google-page-ranking-class-after-joining-yesterday.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/541760-cancelled-my-google-page-ranking-class-after-joining-yesterday.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Bigb14, you were once a newcomer before and people didn’t spaz out. Why didn’t you use the search thread then? And to answer the OP’s question, I have taken those tests (not the prep course, though I’m assuming they are similar) and they seemed harder for CR and math, but of same difficulty for writing.</p>

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<p>I in fact DID look around, hence my cancellation of the class. Otherwise, my thread would have said, “OMG SHOULD I TAKE A PR COURSE???” Not to mention that at the time, we didn’t have the google search, and the forum search results were crap. Not to mention the fact that we didn’t have a useful sticky at the top of the page directing us to all useful threads. </p>

<p>You sure did put a lot of effort into finding some evidence against me. </p>

<p>To answer the question, for the 500000 time: YOU CAN’T COMPARE THE 2 SCORES. PR is not standardized the same way as the SAT (nobody knows how the SAT is standardized), and therefore, the scores are not comparable because the QUESTIONS are not comparable. It’s like comparing your MathII scores with your SATI Math scores. They test different concepts and one is not an accurate comparison to the other. In fact, PR has been known to rig its tests so that the first test you take is harder than the last test you take, hence the “guaranteed score increase.” PR is out for your money, the could care less whether you actually improve on the SAT.</p>

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<p>How was it a lot of effort? It was JUST a SIMPLE thread search…(took me less than 30 seconds. I spotted the one that said PR in it)</p>

<p>P.S. I’m also annoyed by these questions but I’m not shunning them. Just think of it as spam, it’s hard to ignore unless you have a spam filter which we unfortunately don’t have for cc…but what can we do?</p>

<p>ok great his or her question was answered. The moral to the story is use CB material ONLY.</p>

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<p>alright, fine, question semi-answered. got it. if u readin this, DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD. IT IS OVER.</p>

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<p>I’m gonna post once to thank the people that, grudgingly, answered the question. :)</p>

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<p>haha, grudgingly, Moxxess? check out this lil artifact i found from bout two weeks ago:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/760544-princeton-review-books-harder-than-real-sat.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/760544-princeton-review-books-harder-than-real-sat.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and looky here who tha creator is!</p>

<p>shove ur head up ur a ss n leave.</p>

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<p>wow rish you’re an idiot and a dick. did you even understand moxess’ statement? it certainly doesn’t seem like it.</p>

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<p>^not really. At first I also mistook moxess to be offensive by using the word “grudgingly”. In that case Rish was justified in doing so. But seeing as moxess also wanted to know the answer, that’s prolly not what he meant.</p>

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<p>it doesn’t justify his actions… he’s like this in every thread</p>

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<p>My opinion: I would strongly recommend PR, Barrons and CB to those taking the SAT. I think PR and Barrons are a little harder than the real SATs, so they’re good practice. But I feel that the CB blue book is a little easier than the actual one, but for people taking the SATs, it’s a MUST to do the book cos’ after all it IS from the testmakers themselves (so maybe there’re some clues in there?). I have used all three books, and I think CB helped me the most, mainly cos I was able to pick out some trends in the qn types.</p>