<p>i am taking SAT classes and they test us on previous SAT’s given out in the past. My score seems to be stuck on the 1800-1900 range. anyone out there know for a fact which books will work best?</p>
<p>i dont know which of these are good</p>
<li>barrons 2400</li>
<li>Princeton Review</li>
<li>grubers</li>
<li>college board</li>
<li>kaplan</li>
<li>maximum sat</li>
</ol>
<p>I found the CB blue book the most helpful. That's the only one I used + lots and lots of other practice tests.</p>
<p>I liked Barrons 2400 for stratgies, and Princeton for strategies/practice tests, and Blue book just for practice tests.</p>
<p>I discourage using Kaplan's, but thats just from my experience with PSAT prep.</p>
<p>Havent tried out any of the other books CCers like, such as RocketReview.</p>
<p>i don't recommend kaplan or maximum sat. use the ones you mentioned before and if you need help on cr, i really like the cr workbook by barrons</p>
<p>Rocket Review is good for math...</p>
<p>I heard Rocket Review is also good for critical reading but I have never used it.</p>
<p>I think Barrons 2400 is really helpful. I borrowed it from the library and it has a lot of good things in it. Usually, the other practice books always talk about the same things and they're fairly simple.... but Barrons 2400 is for like higher-level thinking and strategies and such.. at least that's what I thought lol. :D</p>
<p>barrons 2400 helps a lot because it has some advanced things. but the CB blue book should suffice as long as you keep doing practice tests.</p>
<p>I used Rocket Review for writing and math (never got around doing the CR) and it was really good. I also had Kaplan's small "inside the SAT - 10 strategies" which was nice for math as an extra supplement. The only other book I had was the blue book which was only good for the practice tests, nothing more.</p>
<p>Grubers is excellent for math</p>
<p>RocketReview for Math is excellent; Gruber's covers a lot of math concepts.
The Blue Book is essential for practice tests. You can never actually simulate the actual test conditions, but timing yourself and forcing that pressure(of time) on you is what's most important on the test.</p>
<p>I recommend Barron's big book, the other one not the 2400. Because it covers everything and I loved its practice tests for Math. And McGraw and Hill works best for me in CR.</p>
<p>The entire blue book is only 8 practice tests and nothing more? it doesnt have any material!? practice questions!? strategies!?</p>
<p>i have the old 2004 cb(blue book)..should i buy the latest cb book? is the new and old one the same??</p>
<p>ivyleague104 - The Blue Book is close to 900 pages in total, with about 400 going through CR, Writing, Math including practice questions and some strategies. The strategies are mostly common sense for the most part but will help familiarize yourself with the test. At the end of each mini section (say for example correcting sentences in writing) there is a set of practice questions. It's nice because you don't have to use up your practice tests when you want to focus on working on a particular section.</p>
<p>PR is good for strategies, CB is best for practice.</p>