what the heck? Don't ever buy Dr. Gruber's SAT book..

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<p>I bought it because I heard it was GREAT for math, I wanted to raise my 710 to an 800... I skipped right to the math section and started looking at their "tips".. THey are absolutely ridiculous, all they do is split hairs. For example, one of their "tips" was "different ways to think about problems"-- here's one "what is greater? (350<em>352) or (349</em>353)".. On the real SAT, you would just freaking multiply them out and pick the greater number, they go into this **** about having 20 different ways to abstractly "think" about which one is bigger. This doesn't help on a REAL LIFE test, maybe if your a philosopher, but not on the SAT.. Literally the whole math section is either abstract meaningless tips like that, or it's just restating SIMPLE SIMPLE concepts except they insist on making it complicated. I know if I was learning how to factor or take averages for the first time, I would NOT be able to learn from this book. It may help solidify BASIC skills, but other than that it is mostly useless. All the do is split hairs in that book. Oh and by the way, the CR and W in that book is inaccurate and unhelpful..</p>

<p>Just my .02, I just ordered Dr. Chungs Math book because i heard it has harder problems.</p>

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<p>I agree. It is stupid.</p>

<p>I am contemplating buying Dr Chung.</p>

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<p>Lol that’s hilarious. Questions involving that much multiplication don’t even exist on the SAT. A math prep book seems kind of pointless once you have the basics. Practicing makes SAT math so easy.</p>

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<p>Wait a sec, don’t buy Dr. Grubers? Dr Chungs or Grubers? lol</p>

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<p>Buy Barron’s lulz.</p>

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<p>@warlands719… I meant do not buy GRUBERS, I just bought CHUNG’s, because I heard it was better.</p>

<p>@pentupenguin, I have Barron’s 2400 but I haven’t looked at it yet.</p>

<p>If you guys want I can post my opinions of Chung’s and Barron’s after I finish them.</p>

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<p>Oh I see, so it’s useless? I mean, I want to improve my math, but now that I’ve heard this, I’m kinda skeptical of buying it lol…</p>

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<p>it’s not useless, but it’s just not a good way of learning for anyone in my opinion. If you are already scoring a 650+ in math, you will already understand the majority of everything they try to teach you… and if you are scoring lower like a 500 then you will not understand everything in the book, and you will have a hard time of learning it because of the dumb abstract way they try to teach things.</p>

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<p>lol your title says Dr. Gruber’s</p>

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<p>@parallelism</p>

<p>so?</p>

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<p>This would have been a typical problem for a pre-1995 SAT (i.e., before calculators were introduced). Or, for the current GRE. I’m not saying it is appropriate anymore, but that’s why it could be in an SAT book. Also, it is a good example of why old SAT scores can’t easily be compared to new ones, even with concordance tables.</p>

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<p>I recommend the barron’s math workbook. :)</p>

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<p>Glad I read this thread I was about to go and try to buy it</p>

<p>AWESOME!!! My 600th post! only 400 more to go!</p>

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<p>I already made the mistake :(</p>

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<p>Why does everyone keep recommending it then…?</p>

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<p>^IKR? Which one is better to CC’ers???</p>

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<p>Dr Chung has recieved Unanimous acceptance among everyone.</p>

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<p>i can’t help but feeling guilty for directly affecting Dr. Gruber financially… whatever </p>

<p>Dr. Chungs should get to my house on monday, I’ll let you guys know what I think about it then…</p>

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<p>I have yet to hear one bad review about this book</p>

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<p>Lmao. I was doing some sample tests with Gruber’s sat. I skipped all the math sections. I am still baffled by the fact that I didn’t get a 800 on my last real sat test.</p>