<p>I would appreciate some advice on which of the following SAT prep books or any other, is the best for an average Scorer on the SAT. I already have CB's official study guide.</p>
<p>Maximum Sat
The RocketReview Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT
McGraw-Hill's SAT I</p>
<p>I don't know about the ones you're asking....I had CB's book, PR, Kaplan and Barron's...I liked Barron's a lot....but as far as I understood many found it complicated or difficult to work with...therefore I would personally recommend the Princeton Review book....it has tips for average students and quite realistic tests....I wouldn't recommend Kaplan's(except maybe for it's vocab part) because it has unrealistic scoring and it also seems a litle bit easy...so my advice is go for PR...as for other books...I really don't know...good luck to you!:)</p>
<p>I would say barrons too...
I really liked it a lot, and helped me I think to get a better score in June</p>
<p>McGraw-Hill's book is the only book on there that I've read, but I can honestly say that I would read it, even if it weren't for the SAT, simply to improve my math, writing, and reading. You can tell that the author(s) (it's really hard to detect the presence of multiple authors, but I suppose it's there) really enjoys his work, truly understands the material, and honestly wants to get it across to students. I don't know anything about the main author, Christopher Black, but a lot of the reading selections are written by him (and they are well written), so it seems as if he has formal writing training and perhaps has worked as a journalist. Which only enhances the prose and makes it very readable (in the sense that he can make a complex [depending on your skill level] topic understandable, rather than in the sense that the text is so trivially simple, anyone could understand it). The math sections are amazing (perhaps this is the other author's role) and actually aim to help you understand the concepts. The review questions are also very challenging, in order to reaffirm your newly (depending) learned skills.</p>
<p>It's really hard for me to describe in a paragraph why I like the book, but perhaps I can best state it in that, while reading the book, I really enjoyed reading it; it wasn't like studying, it was rather like learning, in which you actually learn things you've never known. Studying to me conjures up images of stashing yourself away in a corner, mindlessly rereading texts you've already gone over, memorizing equations and hating it. It's hard to "forget" a truly conceptual understanding, while one can forget the procedural steps for solving a problem within minutes.</p>
<p>As for whether it improved my score, I'll just say that before reading the book, there were things I either simply didn't know how to do or didn't have a good enough grasp on. Afterwards, I knew how to do them. Suffice to say, my scores improved (OK, I suppose I said more :)).</p>
<p>P.S. It's really sad when one can pour his or her heart out for an SAT review book; it's really gone way too far. Maybe it's just me :D</p>
<p>Snake24
I tried rocket review 1.5 month before the June SAT
and the CR part really helped(english is my second language).
Writing part was useful, but i used Kaplan for writing MCs because i thought it was more organized.
I'm not sure about the math part because i skipped it.</p>
<h1>I would recommend it. go to barnes&noble and skim over it to see if you like it or not.</h1>
<p>can anyone provide review for the Maximum SAT?</p>
<p>look at the reviews on amazon</p>