<p>I've been on this forum for a while, and it seems like in the past month wherever I see book suggestions the Kaplan prep book is always in the lead. Why is this one so popular? Previously I'd see a mixture of various books, but now everybody posting recommends Kaplan. </p>
<p>What's so good about this book?</p>
<p>It helped me go from a 2040 on SAT to scoring constant 230s on PSATs. Basically its word list is phenomenal, its math coverage is superb, and the grammar lessons couldn't be better. </p>
<p>It's just an all around great book that has everything needed to boost your score.</p>
<p>Well, I agree that it is quite good. Yeah, the grammar is very very helpful (they give you 15 most common sentence correction questions, 15 most common 15 most common identifying errors questions). After I learned those, my score went up to the 700's (and yes, the errors they predict are actually VERY accurate, i.e. parallelism, pronoun shift, faulty comparison, etc.) After more practice, it becomes extreemly easy. I also think they have a good method for the essay and practice can always help. Seriously, you can spend 2 days with this stuff and increase your score from a 500 to a 650.</p>
<p>I really enjoy the way they do math. They have a basic math section, where all of the more basic topics are covered, and then there are practice questions (which tell you what concept you are working with). Then they have the same for advanced math topics. Then, my favorite, a math traps section!!!!! This accounts for a large part of all the little tricks College Board uses on hard questions and can be very useful to get those hard questions right! Then in the back is the 100 math concepts that you "need to know". </p>
<p>The CR stratagies are good and although the practice might not be entirely realistic, it trains you very well. The word list is a plus and there's a root list also.</p>
<p>And 4 practice tests? What can I say, it's a solid book.</p>
<p>If you use it with Blue Book, and you score isn't very high already, your score will go up.</p>
<p>How large is the wordlist? Is it better than Barron's?</p>
<p>I found the Kaplan practice tests too easy and Barron's to difficult</p>
<p>Kaplan/PR = Too easy
Barron's/11 practice= too hard
Blue Book= just right.</p>
<p>Anyway I was asking something different.(if this was you reply to mine...)</p>
<p>By the way where did you find Barron's 11 practice tests?</p>
<p>The word list is like 500 something... I would go with Barron's first though.</p>
<p>mmm
so are we talking about Kaplan Comprehensive Program 2007 or Premier 2007....</p>
<p>I found the 2006 Kaplan edition to have lots of mistakes. Unless they revamped the entire book for the '07 edition, I wouldn't suggest Kaplans</p>
<p>Really? So what's so special about the Kaplan these fellas are talking about?</p>
<p>Either one, and yes they got rid of all the errors.</p>
<p>I would not suggest Kaplan, because the test format seems similar to real one, but in real SAT, the test format will be different from what you have practiced in Kaplan books. </p>
<p>So, only Bluebook can be validated, I think.</p>
<p>They actually changed the format to be realistic too...</p>
<p>(Sorry for the earlier, irrelevant post--it somehow posted on the wrong thread.)</p>
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<p>How is college board's huge ass book?</p>
<p>Good. Buy It.</p>
<p>Got it........</p>
<p>for a point of clarification, are we talking about the 2007 premier edition or the comprehensive one? or is there a difference between the two?</p>
<p>Either... the premier one comes with a C.D with I doubt could hurt, but its not the one I used.</p>