Hey all! I just finished the math section of the Princeton Review SAT Prep Book, and there are some weird techniques they had in there. The main one is their techniques of Plugging In the Answers and Plugging in Your Own Numbers. I just think they are weird, I mean, fine it could work, but I don’t feel like I am really learning the math concepts that way since I do plan on taking the sat subject test in math 2. Therefore, do you think these are bad techniques (Plugging In the Answers and Plugging in Your Own Numbers)? Should I switch to some other book to get a better understanding, like Barrons? Or will Barrons have similar techniques like Plugging In? I have plenty of time to read another book, I am a rising Junior.
As a person who scored a perfect score on the SAT math II, I’d say the Barrons book was definitely harder but better. However, learning techniques from those books won’t really help you. You need to find the method that works for you. Yes plugging in the answers is effective (heck I used it on the actual test too) but whats more important than technique is repetition. My recommendation is buy the Barron and Collegeboard ones and just solve the practice tests (You can borrow those books from your local library if you want) and solve those problems at least twice or even three times. Yes, repetition with the same problems. Before I took the test I solved those 3 books 5+ time.
TL;DR Look for your own techniques and solve solve and solve more problems and than solve the same ones again