<p>I have been making a lot mistakes in each of their passages, but not so in other books. Am I the only one, or is Gruber's passages tougher?</p>
<p>I only have a Gruber's of 1996 from my teacher. I think their strategy sometimes work, somtimes not. This discrepancy is understandable because not all SAT original passages follow the same way they assume. I usually get only 65% or...0% for their passage actually.</p>
<p>Did you try Princeton Preview? I scare to death their Math, for some reasons, very uncertain, I cannot get through their problems easy. Perhaps there must be a sort of element for each of us to maximise our performance in each kind of SAT Guide Book.</p>
<p>Cuong, PR is good but dont follow their Joe math methods.</p>
<p>Anyone else tried out Gruber? I have the 2005 edition 1st for the New SAT edition? Please tell me are their CR passages worth doing or is theirs seem different frm the regular CR stuff.</p>
<p>I don't know this or not, but the only passage that I did really good upon Gruber's is about Chinese History. It is my major interest so I get 100% from that. The rest of them is very odd. I think it is the ability of comprehending which decide whether or not such passages in Gruber's become easy or not. I would suggest that you should get back to the passages which you make mistakes, look carefully where the question focus, and then come to the Blue book, compare them. This sounds a bit absurd, but sometimes it works.</p>
<p>For example, there is a passage in my current version which talk about Doctor B.F Skinner's and his About Behaviourism. This is a really professional and hard passage, which I think we hardly find in SAT I. I don't know whether your version still retains this passage or not.</p>
<p>Mine is a 2005 one, but I did the very same passage on Skinner!</p>
<p>Good, how did you perform upon this passage?</p>
<p>(: 4 wrong out of 8. I hardly make such mistakes in the blue book, Barron even</p>
<p>To Skygirl, some of the Joe math ones are actually good. A hard question will almost never have an answer of the answer can't be determined, and it is very true that the answer that you feel at the very beginning is usually not the answer(that's only true for easy questions). I do better on math questions because I always think that one of the answers that looks at me in the face saying PICK ME!! is a trap because it seems too easy. </p>
<p>Joe Bloggs represents the type of person that ETS tries to fool with, and knowing Joe Bloggs inside out can immediately let you eliminate 1-3 answers at the very start.</p>
<p>My friend said like this:" For the hard question, if the first sentence I can comprehend, then I know I am going to win this all game. If I cannot understand anything in this first sentence, I know it is over."</p>