Cracking the NEW SAT, 2005 Edition

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Summary: Cracking the NEW SAT
Review: Adam Robinson is a genius! Follow his advice and you will ace the SAT, new or old. His latest book is packed with great test taking advice. He helps you work smarter, not longer. My two older sons, now at Amherst and UPenn, used his materials very successfuly and now our high school aged daughter hopes to do the same on the "New" test. This is the ONLY test prep book you should buy!

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Summary: A MUST HAVE
Review: Princeton Review challenges the ETS party line on prepping and coaching. By studying patterns in the ETS answer choices and question sequences, Princeton Review came up with what it calls the Joe Blog approach. At its core, Joe Blog says that on easy questions, go for the obvious answer that Joe Blog (a hypothetical Joe-Average) would guess; on the hard ones, avoid the "obvious answers, because they are "tricks" to fool Joe Blog.

If you have a shot at 1350 or above this may not be the ideal approach. But for most other people, it could add some hard-fought points. Even for top scorers, the Joe Blog techniques could add points by increasing the odds of successfully making educated guesses on the toughest questions. Moreover, the Princeton Review writers do provide excellent practice beyond the Joe Blog approach. They seem to have studied the content of the test better than most authors, particularly Barrons. If there is one flaw, it is that the explanations to the practice questions need a lot of work.

While not perfectfor everyone, this book is still an important and helpful resource. I do recommend this book overall.

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Summary: good book
Review: very good, helped my sister and her friends a lot. much better than the kaplan one-- full of mistakes.