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<p>Complete and thorough solutions for the second Blue Book are on the College Board’s Website.</p>
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Are you talking about their online course? Can you please provide a link? Thanks!</p>
<p>So basically all the books are worthless besides the CollegeBoard Book?</p>
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<p>I was referring to the part of the College Board’s Website that provides solutions for the tests in The Official SAT Study Guide, Second Edition: [Welcome</a> to the Official SAT Study Guide Book Owner’s Area](<a href=“SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board”>SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board).</p>
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<p>Other books provide valuable strategies for studying and taking the test. However, only the Blue book contains actual, past SAT practice tests, so it seems reasonable to start with the 10 tests provided by the CB rather than ones made up by test prep companies.</p>
<p>Thank you st. I’m afraid I can’t access the site yet, I can use my Ds sign-in but need to get a copy of the new edition of the BB in order to answer the verification question.</p>
<p>Hi, i was wondering if 4 months, from May to September will be enough for both SAT I and SAT II preparation??</p>
<p>I see the point which I find greatly helpful, that we should be focusing on the blue book and online tests that CB offers instead of those pseudo-SATs from infamous BARRON’s…and as sir Xiggi has mentioned, I understand that the older tests are too, valuable. And…here’s the problem: where can I get them? should I buy the first edition of the SAT study guide by CB? Can anybody help me out?</p>
<p>I personally used PrepMe and I don’t recommend it at all. There were lots of mistakes in the lessons. I used books such as Rocket Review and I found those books to be so so so much better than any of PrepMe’s lessons. When I say lesson, I don’t mean like a streaming video or animation, you’re going to be reading texts and explanations, however, there are narrations. I mean, what’s the point though, you might as well get a book if you have to read to learn, plus it’s so much cheaper while so much more effective.</p>
<p>If you pay extra big bucks for the tutoring service, it takes a while for them to respond to your chat. You can tell they’re helping multiple students at once because of the delayed reply. </p>
<p>Another downside to their service is that they are pretty new, so they aren’t as well developed as some of the well known local prep services or big name chains. They don’t give a whole lot of strategy on how to take the test, more emphasis on learning the material.</p>
<p>Don’t get sucked into their service from their tour like I did. The tour makes it seems like they put a lot of focus on exclusively you, but once you’re paying member, it’s becomes lot more independent studying.</p>
<p>This post probably sounds bitter, but I paid a lot for that service and I had expected more. I guess the moral of the story is that it’s a lot better to study on your own.</p>
<p>yeah i was wondering the same thing as pinkfloyd4life does anyone have ideas?</p>
<p>I didn’t answer initially because there are so many highly variable factors involved which would make a one-size-fits-all answer of no, little or negative value. It really depends on where you’re at when you start, what score you’re aiming for, how hard you actually study during that time period and, dare I say it, IMO your innate intellectual capacity. </p>
<p>In general, yes, 4 months of full time study over the summer is a lot of time and should be plenty for the SAT I. I would not recommend studying for SAT IIs over the summer. The best time to take SAT IIs is in the spring (May or June sittings) when you’re finishing up a year of a class that preps you for that test; eg. AP science courses for the science SAT IIs, AP US History, PreCalc for the Math 2. AP tests are generally tougher than the SAT IIs so you should need little, if any, additional prep beyond what you do for the AP exam; and exception may be Math 2. Remember, you don’t have to wait until jr year to take all of your SAT IIs, if you’re taking the appropriate coursework earlier, go ahead and get them out of the way while the material is fresh.</p>
<p>Quote: “I Hate the SATs so so much” </p>
<p>Hate it? </p>
<p>That’s one sure way not to improve on the SAT.</p>
<p>It may be unreasonable, but you have to be a little more flexible. Somewhat respect the SAT, and at least acknowledge the intricacies (although perhaps pointless intricacies).</p>
<p>That’s a big step in reaching your goals if you want to significantly increase your scores.</p>
<p>I stumbled on this site called [Simple</a> Word Game – Learn Vocabulary](<a href=“http://www.simplewordgame.com%5DSimple”>http://www.simplewordgame.com)
it is a fun way to test your knowledge in vocab</p>
<p>i had a 1950 in my SAT ,but after focusing only on the practice tests in the blue book and the 10 real SAts,my math score rose from a 620 to 740.i did not bother with the writing and critical reading,so they are both 690.</p>
<p>^Great job!</p>
<p>Great job. BTW, what was your approach when taking the tests? Time yourself? Make note of the questions that you missed and review them periodically? Work with anyone? Buy book with more detailed explanation of answers?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>will my CR improve with practice?? i mean will reading lots of novels, and good vocab, can I ace the CR?</p>
<p>I don’t really understand the Xiggi method. To me, a lot of it is just common sense. I probably didn’t understand it correctly, and would appreciate it if somebody could explain it to me, but the only difference I see is ‘use only the blue book and no others’.</p>
<p>^ The mentality is so engrained into CC now that most of it seems common sense (and much of it, indeed, is).</p>
<p>I don’t think xiggi would disagree that much of it is common sense. In addition to using only BB practice tests, some of the main points are to: not worrying about timed tests to begin with, strategies to increase efficiency, fully understanding both correct and incorrect answers to understand how the CB develops questions.</p>
<p>He’s laying out a methodology that worked for him (and has worked for countless others), it may or may not work for you, but it is a contribution to SAT prep that has taken some effort and has been given freely to the CC community.</p>
<p>hey can anyone give me the pdf of the xiggi’s sat advice…i have the older version but if he has edited or added something new then it would be really nice if you could either PM it or post in this thread…</p>
<p>thank you</p>