<p>I went to Booksamillion and spent a good hour or so looking through Grubers; the CR section was very brief with like 7 main tips and then a bunch of practice passages. It also had a 3400 word list, and Barron's has a 3500 word list. The math section did seem a little more in depth with the usual overview of all the concepts and then some more detailed concepts. Then there was an entire section on Writing that really helped me understand grammar. I don't know if doing all the practice problems would help because I've heard from experts that sometimes other companies test you on different things or on things that are way too hard and not related to what the SAT teaches. Then I looked at Rocket Review's customer reviews on amazon, and take a look at the one on the top right. Amazon.com:</a> Customer Reviews: The Rocket Review Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT (Third Edition) (Rocketreview Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT)</p>
<p>This person says that it is not worth your money because it just gives you cheap tricks to help you guess while knowing how to actually figure out the problem is better. I don't mind gimmicks on the CR section though because I do need some help on that section. But for those who have RR, do you think that it's worth it, especially for CR?</p>
<p>RR is one of the best books for CR, in fact, xiggi recommends it. Gruber's is only useful if you are completely hopeless as math and need something to turn that around. RR has the math you need, as well as a cr section better than any other commercial book. However, the most surefire way to ravage that CR section is to practice again and again with real CB passages. RR can get you only so far.</p>
<p>I'm very good at math(got a 730 on the October 2007 SAT that my friend let me take yesterday), but I might falter over a medium question here and there and I still need to try and answer all the hard questions. Gruber's has this 101 math concepts or common questions section that people report to be very helpful. I was just wondering if Gruber's was good for even a good math person. </p>
<p>I don't like practicing with the CB passages. You read the passage and come across these absurd questions with answers that make no sense. At least other books give the line references of where the evidence is mentioned and that teaches me to look around for the evidence. Basically I need answer explanations. The consolidated list of math solutions is full of every hard question in the blue book, but CR is lacking(on this fourm's stickied posts). So do you just recommend that I go to Booksamillion and look at the entire Gruber's math section for 2-3 hours or so and be done with it? I mean it wouldn't hurt to look over them for sure, but to really get the experience out of any book, you need to do their practice problems. I can't just bring a calculator, pencil, and paper to work on math problems in Booksamillion! I might just read over all their stuff and pay attention to the answer explanations for their practice problems.</p>