What are the best SAT I books?

Test Preparation
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<p>Hi, I'm a senior this year and I just signed up for the December SATs.</p>

<p>I'm wondering what are the best SAT prep books that I can get my hands on, I bought a "Sparknotes: the new sat" book awhile ago, but I don't think its really that good for studying.</p>

<p>Also, could I get a 2100+ if I only have one month to study? (1840 - 590 CR, 670 M, 580 W on the June one, with minimal studying, I know I'm bad :[ ). </p>

<p>Thanks in advance for any feedback.</p>

<p>PS. Oh and what are some good prep strategies? I read one of the threads, and it said to take a practice SAT and do each section one at a time and then make sure you can get them all right, and look the explanations over to get a sense of overall patterns.</p>

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<p>-que Rocky theme song</p>

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<p>barrons is the best</p>

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<p>I personally like Grubers.</p>

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<p>bump, anyone else? probaly gonna go out to buy one today or tommorow</p>

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<p>I find Barrons workbooks to be very focused and intense, and it helps exaggerate your most common errors.</p>

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<p>study the sparknotes list of 1000 vocab words. I can tell you from experience that it hurts to miss three sentence completions on CR when the word you didn't know was on the tip of your tongue. Could end up saving you 50 points.</p>

<p>I don't know much about math because I never studied for it, just winged it and got one wrong. Read the problems over and over again.</p>

<p>Writing, i'd recommend Barron's how to prep for the SAT. I haven't tried others so i don't know if there are better books out there.</p>

<p>After you study vocab,math, grammar rules, take all the practice tests in the bluebook, study the questions you got wrong. I promise you'll see the improvement you're looking for.</p>

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<p>thanks! that was helpful. I really wanna do well on this last SAT =)</p>

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<p>gruber is good for vocabulary, but still barrons & college boarda are the best, although princeton review is sometimes relevant(for CR&writing)</p>

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<p>bump------</p>

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<p>Just got the Barron's 2009 edition SAT prep book</p>

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<p>Barron's SAT + Barron's Workbooks = 2100+, guaranteed.</p>

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<p>^ I wouldn't say its a guarantee. My friends use tons of Barron's books and they can't score above 1900. Nothing is a "guarantee" , especially when it comes to someone who only has one month left and scores in the 1800s.</p>

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<p>Fine, high probability :)</p>

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<p>I have alot of time on my hands...we will see =)</p>

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<p>BLUE BOOK BLUE BOOK BLUE BOOK</p>

<p>I took the math practice test and the math section of the practice test and skimmed the whole thing and went from a </p>

<p>2050 to a 2330</p>

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<p>Yeah, the blue book is sort of the best source of practice materials once you know the actual content. Doing BB tests allows you to "subconsciously" know what the CB answers are like and what the right ones' favor is.</p>

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<p>Hmm, so should I get the blue book? or stick with my Barrons and then move onto the blue book?</p>

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<p>DEFINITELY the blue book.
It's SO much like the real test! I felt like I was just taking a practice test during the real thing because it was so similar.</p>

<p>My scores from the practice tests in the blue book were really really close to my actual score. Like it was basically the average of all the practice tests i did </p>

<p>I also tried using Princeton Review but they had some strange CR questions (weird and hard intepretation questions) that never showed up on any of the CollegeBoard tests. The Math and Writing wasn't too bad though. It's still good practice either way.</p>

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<p>PR's horrible for CR. CB's tests are unambiguous and well written. PR's just way too...subjective/weird.</p>