<p>I live in Canada so my school doesn't prepare us for SATs as very few of us take them... I went to Chapters to find a prep book and there are just so many of them... :?</p>
<p>my guidance counselor told us to get all three- princeton, college board, and barrons. Therefore I got all three of them and so far barrons and college board seem the best to me. And i really the princeton SAT vocab book but you can find that somewhat in the back of barrons.</p>
<p>the blue one from college board.....thats the best one right now</p>
<p>I prefer "Spot Goes to the Beach". It gave me good pointers.</p>
<p>Seriously though, in my experience, Barrons tends to make you prepare more than you need to, which is good if you have the time, but stressful if you don't. (I didn't). For example I bought barrons and was scoring like 670-690 on math IIc and i was like.."F this S", and bought a sparknotes, and got like 770's
I got a 780 in the end.</p>
<p>what about "tiger went to the pool"???????????</p>
<p>"Tiger went to the pool" is for people who want to score 1200 new scale. Tiger didnt know what he was getting himself into when we hent to that pool, and now he has to pay child support for 3 kids he doesn't know.</p>
<p>A good fun one is "Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT." It's written by young people who have all aced the SAT (I think most had 1600s, and the others were all over 1500). it gives a lot of tips that I don't think you'd find elsewhere, about strategies for guessing if you have no clue and a huge list of common SAT words with funny sentences to help you memorize them. It's a nice break from the conventional SAT prep book.</p>
<p>DEFINITELY</p>
<p>College Board's Official SAT Study Guide. </p>
<p>Eventhough half the book contains useless advise on how to approach the SAT throught the "official" ways, the real cream of the book are the 8 REAL Practice SATs. Those 8 tests are you lifelines, for they provide the most reliable foundation for your studies. Study those tests, review EVERY Question AND Answer, and gradually you'll find out and understand a pattern the ETS uses. </p>
<p>As for Princeton Review and Barrons and Kaplan, I can only see and use them as normal practice exercises, since afterall, they are only "sample" tests that are devised from the past and the current 8 Real SATs published by College Board. If you work carefully through them, you'll certainly find inconsistencies when comparing with the actual official tests, esp. for the critical reading sections. Do your Practice tests by using the Real SATs by Collegeboard, that way you'll get an accurate score.</p>
<p>check out rocket review, the official collegeboard book, and grammatix.</p>
<p>Get Word Smart Books and Make Index Cards of Vocab Words and Read like crazy.</p>
<p>i second "Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT" as a fun book. Especially if the kid isn't study orientated.</p>