<p>Please recommend me the best critical reading and writing prep book for the SAT</p>
<p>the ones that are sold separately (by sections of the test)</p>
<p>I already have the SAT book from Collegeboard and Princeton Review
I just have to work on the writing/grammar and CR</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
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<li>I'd like to purchase it really soon (like, perhaps, tomorrow)
So it's sort of an urgent question...
Any legit response would be appreciated</li>
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<p>someone please!!</p>
<p>The PR book is the best for verbal overall...have you gone through it yet? The CR methods are good and it has templates for the essays. For grammar, I would get Grammar Smart.</p>
<p>In my opinion, I think Critical Reading prep books are useless....</p>
<p>The best CR prep is to read magazines like Scientific American, Time, The New Yorker, etc.; this helps increase your reading repertoire, in addition to vocabulary.</p>
<p>If you want a really good writing prep book, get Kaplan's SAT II Writing, a stand-alone prep book when writing was still an SAT II.</p>
<p>grammatix and grammar smart</p>
<p>I second Grammatix though that might now be ideal if all you want to do is to practice.</p>
<p>i went from 620 to 750 in cr 2 weeks before the test using grammatix. the book definitely helps. just follow the method and practice.</p>
<p>neoprototypeazn - damn dude, thats pretty sweet. i think i'm in the same boat as the poster here... i got an 800 on math, and then 620CR and 660WR. honestly, i'd rather have triple 700 - or at least something more evenly distributed - than have the lop-sided scores that i have.</p>
<p>so grammatix really works, huh? i'll have to check that out. what's grammar smart? are the two book pretty much the same?</p>
<p>and one other thing, you went from 620 to 750 in reading or writing??? (after using grammatix) you said "cr" but assuming that stands for critical reading, i find it interesting that a grammar book helped your reading score... did you mean to say that for the writing section??</p>
<p>whats a link for the Grammatix book? i cant fnid one</p>
<p>grammatix is a company. i was referring to its sat preparation book. the math and writing sections in the book are pretty useless, but the critical reading section definitely makes up for them. i recommend reading the cr portion of the book two to three times, understanding mike's examples, and practicing with real test questions. i started practicing about 2 weeks before the test and even managed to score a few 800s on my practice tests after a week of practice. grammar smart is a concise, easy to read grammar book. since i never learned grammar in school, grammar smart really helped my writing score (600 something to 740).</p>
<p>Grammatix raised my score by 140 in CR as well.</p>