<p>I haven’t seen the Blue book for any SAT. I am just using sparknotes. But I think Maths and Physics are very easy and can be easily aced. Not sure about Chemistry though.</p>
<p>@tizil you mean the reasoning test,right? well i didn’t use the blue book, plan to get it now for the second test. but i can tell you about barrons, i got ~2100 on the practice tests and 2210 on the real one.</p>
<p>Ah, thanks!</p>
<p>Hmm … another question for all of you: What exactly do you consider high HS grades? Answer as (if possible):</p>
<p>9th: <strong>% - __ %
10th: ___ to </strong> CGPA
11th: <strong><em>% to _</em></strong>%
12th: <em>% to </em>% (half yearlies/midterms/preboards)</p>
<p>Here’s what I think:</p>
<p>9th: 85%-95%
10th: 9.4 - 10 CGPA
11th: 85%-95%
12th: I am not in a position to gauge this one :P</p>
<p>9th : 90% - 97%
10th : 9.4 - 10
11th : 85% - 95%
12th - 90% - 95%</p>
<p>@tizil: 9th and 10th, the range is fine. But in 11th and 12th 80-90 is more appropriate. I am second in my class and get around 85-86. The topper reaches 88-89. 90 is unheard of.
Although the boards are another story. A lot of people get above 90 so 85-95 is fine.</p>
<p>Well I agree with karan. Though it’s not impossible to cross 90%</p>
<p>Oh well, in my class of 1000, around 5-7 people got above 90% in 11th.
I think I might be somewhere in the top 3% though.
And wow iamthebist, you have stringent standards for 9th grade :D</p>
<p>@tizil7 - when we consider a class size, we take the number of students in that class overall or the number of students who have that subject common to ours? (do we include commerce students or not?)</p>
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<p>Oh darlin’, I had an emergency to tend to. I’m sorry. Will you ever forgive me?</p>
<p>I might have overlooked a comment if someone mentioned this, but has anyone tried Princeton Review’s practice books? I use their material (Princeton Review and Barron, actually) to study for the AP Exams (I have their SAT books too), and I know that they’re pretty good at summing things up and highlighting the concepts that the SAT actually tests you on.</p>
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Oh! Your chemistry! Brings a tear to my eye ;)</p>
<p>Also, here’s my personal experience with 6 months of studying:
CB BB = Best for tests
KP = Barrons 2400 (Grammar)
CR = Barrons 2400 and Nothing. Though D&D suggested 501 CR, I cannot vouch for it. The best way would be to practice tests from the BB and then see why you made mistakes. One golden rule though: If it’s not in the text, it shoudl not be in your answer.
Math = Barrons 2400</p>
<p>Now you might be questioning the bias of my answer (or lack thereof) but after studying from: Kaplan, Princeton Review, Petersons and Barrons 2400, I find the latter to be the most useful of them all. It’s so rigorous, you can almost do anything after you prep from it.</p>
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I’ll take that as a compliment. Love ya too, brobot (:</p>
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JACKPOT! Barron’s books are EXTREMELY useful. They don’t put anything you dont need to know in there. So if it’s in there, know it. More often than not, what you study from Barrons will be on the SAT.</p>
<p>Okay, whats the ‘blue book’?</p>
<p>Weeel, my 9th %age is around 90%, 10th: 97%, 11th: 84%, 12th: 90%+ (almost sure of this result).</p>
<p>I studied for the SAT from the kaplan book. Ws getting ~2200 every time. But then i had these 70% portion tests in school (studying CBSE 70% syllabus in 13 days is not a joke, and that is all the time we got to prep) until 2 days b4 the sat test, and ws TOTALLY burned out by then. So actual SAT=2140.</p>
<p>HAHA if i get 800 in chem and lit it will be a miracle. I have Barrons; gonna go over it today 
(Chem)</p>
<p>I just woke up. With tousled hair and sleepy eyes I wander like a homeless zombie to my computer. I click on cc.com. Is there something wrong with me?
I agree with Tizil and Tennis about the barron’s book. I also think that the cb blue book will be very useful because it’s gonna adapt us to their way of thinking. Anyways carry on comrades. I gotta go brush my teeth. :)</p>
<p>Anyone of you applied to Ivies under SCEA/REA/ED?
To be specific, did anyone apply HYP?
Just curious. :)</p>
<p>Haha CC we’re suffering from CC addiction!
Has anyone of you tried the “Gruber’s guide to SAT” or “Dr Chung SAT math”?
Reviews much?</p>
<p>Not me but I am sure the rest of them have…</p>
<p>LOL @Karan. We are officially obsessed xD
@Veethi- nopes i toh havent. 
@khittee- ^^ditto. What about you? :)</p>
<p>And. *I have Princeton review (have no idea why i wrote Barrons :P)</p>
<p>EEEE countdown to TWO days!
And again, whats the blue book??</p>
<p>Oh. Got it. Considering the kinda samples CB puts up on the website, wuoldnt the blue book be way easier than the real test? :O</p>
<p>@veethiv : yes (about the addiction)
no (about the books)
and which graphing calc. are you going to use for the math exam?
@cobalt :the blue book is the official sat prep. book by collegeboard</p>