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Summary: The simple beauty of "1600 Perfect Score"...
Review: The simple beauty of "1600 Perfect Score", much like "The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People" and "The Millionaire Next Door", is that it focuses on one of life's most highly desirable objectives and after careful research and observation by the author, reveals the most common, relevant traits practiced by almost all who have actually achieved it. The formula then offered is simple but effective: if you want to achieve this objective, practice these traits as best you can and you too may get there--or at least a lot closer than you ever thought you would. By understanding the deceptively simple "secrets" offered by books like "Perfect Score", the willing but uncertain reader can acquire probably the most important traits of all required for success: confidence and motivation. What "Habits" did for achieving self-actualization and "Millionaire" for building wealth, the well-written and carefully thought-through "Perfect Score" can do the same for maximizing your child's educational potential. Reading "Perfect Score" and applying its "Seven Secrets" consistently throughout your child's life will obviously not guarantee them a perfect 1600 SAT score any more than reading "Millionaire" will guarantee you an extra million in the bank: natural skills and abilities obviously do play a role. But just as you will almost certainly become at least a little more wealthy than you were by following the "Millionaire" template, consistent, long-term application of the "Perfect Score" principles will almost certainly result in a higher level of academic achievement for your child. What book then could be more important to you as a parent? If you're a parent, buy it, and if you have friends who are parents, do them a favor and buy each of them a copy too!
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Summary: Great Information, NOT your average SAT prep book
Review: This book reveals what the real test takers who aced the SAT did to succeed, which no other book has ever done. What a bright idea! The book even created charts comparing what all the other SAT prep books recommend and what the 1600 kids say. There are differences that surprised me. The book takes it a step further than that, it shows how these high academic achievers have succeeded as students, and how parents can help their kids be successful in life. The book also has another use that is not that apparent because of the focus on the SAT. The commonalities found in the 1600 students serve as a guideline to prepare college applications and the essays. Their personal attributes are exactly what college admissions officers are using to select students from the pile, once you get past the scores and GPAs.
Rating:
Summary: Great Information, NOT your average SAT prep book
Review: This book reveals what the real test takers who aced the SAT did to succeed, which no other book has ever done. What a bright idea! The book even created charts comparing what all the other SAT prep books recommend and what the 1600 kids say. There are differences that surprised me. The book takes it a step further than that, it shows how these high academic achievers have succeeded as students, and how parents can help their kids be successful in life. The book also has another use that is not that apparent because of the focus on the SAT. The commonalities found in the 1600 students serve as a guideline to prepare college applications and the essays. Their personal attributes are exactly what college admissions officers are using to select students from the pile, once you get past the scores and GPAs.
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Summary: While interesting, this book thinks the SAT is everything
Review: This book sheds light on some of our brightest students, illustrating that even students with 1600s are not nerds who lock themselves studying in their own cloisters all day long.
However, this book is too praising of the SAT and is not representative of our nation's top students. It assumes that the best students are the ones who receive 1600: those with 1590s are automatically discredited from participating in this book's study, even if 1590s are just as intellectually capabkle as 1600s, probably only slightly more likely to make minor mistakes.
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