[kinesis]

Is this allowed?
I'm gonna try and make a list so it'll be easier to see...

As you all know, studying and taking practice tests to evaluate your weaknesses are a good way to improve on your SATs. What books and/or study guides, through experience, would you recommend as the best for studying the following:

The New SAT Reasoning - 2400 points possible

PSAT/NMQST - 240 points possible:

SAT Reasoning (SAT I):
- The blue/official Collegeboard book - The Official SAT Study Guide (me - very similar to actual test)
- 10 Real SATs (not applied to analogies of the old SAT) (me - very similar to actual test)
- Barron's (me - harder than actual test)
- Gruber's (seohee - harder than actual test)
- Peterson's/Princeton's(??) Review (Vienne)

.. Critical Reading/Vocab:

.. Math:
- Gruber's (SAT math teacher)

.. Writing:
- Useful Literature: 1984, The Great Gatsby, Joy Luck Club, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill A Mockingbird
- Useful History/News: World War II, War in Iraq
- Useful Evaluative Figures/People: Martin Luther King Jr., Adolf Hitler


SAT II: Subject Tests - 800 points possible

Biology E/M:
- Cliff Notes (me, flyaway)
- Kaplan (me)
- Princeton Review (Vienne)

Chemistry:
- Princeton Review (oneday)

Physics:

Math IC:

Math IIC:
- REA (Vienne)

U.S. History:
- Sparknotes (gjak1117)

World History:

English:

Foreign Languages ..:


ACT Test

(I don't know what sections there are in the ACT)


AP Exams (May 2006) - 5 points possible

AP Biology:
- Cliff Notes (me, flyaway)
- Princeton Review (Vienne)

AP Calculus AB/BC:

AP Chemistry:
- Princeton Review (oneday)

AP English:
- 5 Steps To A 5 (hyerim07)

AP Psychology:
- Barron's (hyerim07)

AP U.S./European History:
- REA (hyerim07, darkdragon315x)

AP U.S. Government:
- Barron's (hyerim07)

AP Spanish:
- Cliff Notes (krnforsale)
- Princeton Review (hyerim07)

This post has been edited by kinesis: 10 October 2005 - 06:56 PM

[krnforsale]

cliff notes for AP spanish is good too...get spanish I and II

[seohee]

the gruber's book for both math and english is pretty good. the practice tests on gruber are actually harder than the real sat, so the philosophy is that if you can do gruber, you can do the real thing.

[flyaway]

all i know is all barrons are pieces of crap
bio ap cliff notes=awsome

[oneday]

TPR for chem.

[gjak1117]

sparknotes has nice tough tests... so they're pretty good for preparing you, at least for the US History SAT II

[hyerim07]

AP English (both Composition and Literature) - 5 Steps to a 5. They have good tips/writing prompt topics/samples.

AP Psychology - Barron's. Memorize this and you're done.

APUSH - REA

AP European History - REA also.

AP Spanish - Princeton Review

AP US Government - Barron's

[MONICA]

i like princeton review ones because i like how they organize the information. well for the AP ones. the SAT ones seem too easy.

[Vienne]

SAT I (the new one) I like the Peterson's review book and Kaplan
AP Bio: Princeton Review
SATII Bio: Princeton Review
SATII Math 2C: the one by REA

[darkdragon315x]

REA for both the APUSH and AP Euro.

[cafekiss]

I used

SAT I:
--the Official SAT study guide (lots of practice tests)
--Princeton Review's 11 New SATs or whatever it's called

AP Chem/AP US History/AP English Lit:
--Kaplan/Princeton Review

SAT II (US history, literature, bio, physics)
--Kaplan

The consensus among my friends is that Barron has the most detail, Kaplan in the middleish, with Princeton Review having the least.. so pick and choose depending on how much time you have left?

[grainsofrain]

Is there a good place to buy SAT study books (the official?) online?

For example, this one:

- The blue/official Collegeboard book - The Official SAT Study Guide (me - very similar to actual test)

[MONICA]

what does REA stand for...lol.

[angelzstar]

No one suggested one for SATII WOrld History......................

[sweet caroline]

I think REA (Research and Education Association) is the best for the AP US History test. And since I took the SAT II US the day after my AP exam last year, I did really well.
Sparknotes is my least favorite. And Kaplan is alright.

[kid_romantiks]

ill give u something that is NOT RECOMMENED

MOS DEF NOT BARRONS.

BARRONS AP COMPSCI...BALONEY
BARRONS AP US HIS.....BALONEY WITH A SIDE OF WTF?
BARRONS AP BIO....HALF EATEN BALONEY

[mistapooh]

I chose Barron's for SAT I. I agree, it's much harder than the real test, but Princeton was talking to me like I was 2.

[Chuu]

I think Rocket Review (http://rocketreview.com/) is better than the college board blue book. ^^;
The tips are REALLLY helpful, but the book is more expensive (about 30 bux).
I didn't buy it caz I already wasted a lot of money on SAT prep book. lol
If you're interested, go to Barnes & Noble and check it out.
I actually read the whole writing and verbal section at the bookstore. Haha. GO ME! XD

[vc1188]

For SAT I, I highly recommend the blue CollegeBoard one. It's very true to the real thing in terms of difficulty. The only problem with that book is that it doesn't give you a real score.. only a range. So it's REALLY hard to figure out just what score to expect when you take the real test.

I don't really recommend the Princeton Review SAT I book because I found it to be pretty different from the real test. But it did give me a real score, unlike the blue book.


I used Kaplan's SAT II US History book.. it was pretty good, I guess. There were A LOT OF typos though. I mean, it doesn't affect the content, but I just think it's dumb that such a big test prep place like Kaplan would have little screwups like that.