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(Dec sat 09'). He said that it helped him increase by 70 pts from a 670 to a 740. So, a friend of mine recommended this workbook to me. I have to say that I am thoroughly impresseed with this book. I bought it, did most of the sentence completions, studied the vocab., and did the passages. I went from a 670 on the critical reading (March sat 09') to a 750. It arranges the sentence completions in three sets according to difficulty and the passage based reading questions are harder than the real sat which definitely prepared me. Highly recommended.
My main issue with this book is that the questions in the practice tests ARE NOT similar to the questions you will actually see on the test. Other practice tests that I have seen had a lot of questions asking about main ideas, tone of the passage, comparing passages, and specific detail questions (citing specific lines). I used Baron's for the SAT Math Subject Test and it was great. Baron's had a lot of "pretty general" questions that would ask about details from a group of paragraphs. Lastly, the sentence completion questions were alright and the vocabulary lists were good. Most books especially Collegeboard's have acurate questions. Baron's asks a lot of these.
My point is that Baron's may make you a better critical reader through these exercises, BUT it will not prepare you well for the types of questions you will see on the SAT reading test. However, for the reading Baron's was terrible. Baron's had a few of these questions types, but definitely not as many as on other tests. However, this book had styles of reading comprehension questions that I had not seen in a dozen practice tests. I had never seen this sort of question. There were also a lot of typos in the book. However, this does not make up for the inadequate reading passage questions.
I bought this book for my daughter to prep for the PSAT and Act and she said of all the study materials she had, this was the best book ever. It not only explained the answers throughly but it was challanging and had materials that were very much related to these tests.
I teach SAT prep/review classes independently, and have been using the Barron's workbook for several years. The material is challenging, and provides students with a large number of high-frequency SAT words used in context. The vocabulary lists, root origins of words, and practice tests are all excellent. Kate Connors,Holliston MA
I get 200 point more at self SAT exam,after I did all problems in this book.
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