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Summary: An Extremely Utile Book!!
Review: I have tried Kaplan, Princeton Review, Arco and Barrons, and this is the best one yet. Even though it has strategies, they aren't things like "if question is like this, pick C" kind of things--they're the sure way to get answers right. That's more important, I feel--learning to get answers right the intellectual way than using gimmicks and tricks like the Kaplan and Princeton Rewiew folks teach you.Tons of practice, refreshing almost everything you need from Math (lacking High Logic and Pattern problems and how to attack them). Only thing I have a problem with is that I think the Verbal section lacks a little "substance". I have trouble with Critical Reading passages, and even though he touches more in the verbal section on Critical Reading, I feel that it helped me less or nothing. Other than the verbal Critical Reading section, everything is great!
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Summary: A VERY UNIQUE BOOK
Review: I think this book is very good. The only problem I get with the book is that whenever I write on the book with a pen or pencil, it sometimes breaks the page. So the paper's not very good. However, I found this book very interesting and unique from other SAT books. It offers a very complete SAT at-home preparation and it teaches you Critical Thinking Skills that last a lifetime. I also find this book very easy to read and to understand, and they make their explanations clear, to the point, and easy to understand. It offers a lot of practice tests/quizzes and I find that very helpful. Also, they suggest you memorize the roots of words instead of memorizing a whole word one by one. I can't say if I got a good score on the SAT with this book yet because I haven't taken it yet. All I can say is good luck on your SAT book search!!
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Summary: Thank you Dr. Gruber!
Review: I was unpleasantly surprised at my results with this book. I took the PSAT and received a score of 1470. I thought I really had a shot at getting a great SAT score, so I bought the Gruber book. After studying for months before the test with this book, I took the SAT and received a 1050! How could this be?! After that, my parents splurged and purchased the SAT1600 Encyclopedia for [$$$]. It was well worth it...I retook the test and got a 1590! Looks like the elite in the top 10-20% need not apply with this book.
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Summary: How the Gruber book changed my life
Review: I was unpleasantly surprised at my results with this book. I took the PSAT and received a score of 1470. I thought I really had a shot at getting a great SAT score, so I bought the Gruber book. After studying for months before the test with this book, I took the SAT and received a 1050! How could this be?! After that, my parents splurged and purchased the SAT1600 Encyclopedia for [$$$]. It was well worth it...I retook the test and got a 1590! Looks like the elite in the top 10-20% need not apply with this book.
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Summary: The Road to A Fabulous SAT score
Review: Thank you, Dr. Gruber for your fantastic book. Each time I took a test in your book I improved my score on the next one, using your great instructional material and strategies. The first test I took in your book, without any of your preparation or advice, I got 950 which is about what I got on my actual SAT at that time. After reading your specific advice on how to improve after each test, I increased my score steadily on each upcoming tests in your book. By the time I got to the last test in your book, I scored 1520. Before taking the actual SAT I brushed up again using the information in your book and got 1580 on the actual SAT-only 20 points shy of a perfect SAT score! I am convinced I could not achieved such a great final score and going from a 950 to the 1580 without your book.
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Summary: Thank you Dr. Gruber!
Review: The first time I took a sample SAT test, I got a math score of 800 (good) but a verbal score of 400 (very bad). I read this book, every day, every weekend, for months. The word lists are simply amazing, and the idea of categorizing synonyms really helped so much that two years after taking the SAT, I still remember most of the word lists (example: PRAISE :- "acclaim, applaud, commend, eulogize, ..."). Some of the words in these lists are a little easy, but that's what helped me remember them even more (It would have been very intimidiating to read a word list in which ALL words were new!). There are many useful practice tests, and quite a few of them are amazingly similar to (but a little harder than) the ones you will find on actual tests. I ended up with a pretty good score in the end: 800M (as before) and 700+V (much better than before!). But please also buy "Cracking the SAT" by Princeton Review and "10 Real SATs" by the College Board. These books are a great investment; they helped me get into my dream school.
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Summary: Extremely Innacurate Scores
Review: This book is helpful if you just use it for instruction only, and NOT test taking. The tests are ridiculously more difficult than actual SAT's. I took a legitimate "College Board" test in a different book, then I studied for about 30 more hours and took a test in Gruber's book and my score decreased by more than 200 points. The tests are useless because they are not an accurate prediction of your ability on the actual SAT. Many other books give the same detailed instruction and accurate tests to go with it. Regrettably, I found this book to be a complete waste of money. Don't buy it. I recommend the Princeton Review book, the "10 Real", and Barron's.
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Summary: Too Long and boring, helpful? maybe?
Review: This book is somewaht helpful if you were born with a number two pencil under your arm. Is too long!! If you have a lot of time to read this BIBLE, yeah it can help. But I really think that you need a teacher to go with it. My scores went up only by 10 points after reading it. So I don't think it helped me that much. yet, i will try again. I will read it once again together with other books such as 30 day to the SAT and Fast Track to the SAT & PSAT and see what results I get now. I will say it they helped me or not. Is a deal!
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Summary: Great book if you have time
Review: This is simply a great book. It is organized into clear, concise strategies. After reading this book, I can safely say that I am confident in my math abilities. I have yet to finish the reading/writing section yet, but I am sure that it will also be good. If you don't understand it, you're probably just skimming through it. Don't do that. Absorb it all, because each and every word is important.
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Summary: Excellent book, but this is an older version
Review: This is the best, most solid SAT-prep out there, and is more thorough than any other book out there. It's a great choice to help you guys reach your full potential on the SAT, but you should be aware that there's a newer edition available, so check that out first. I'm a professional SAT-prep instructor, and I like this book because it teaches all the little tricks that you need to know to raise your score, AND it gives you all the background stuff you'll need to know to do well on your test, e.g., a comprehensive math review, thousands of words that are likely to appear on the test, etc. Without a doubt the best SAT-prep book on the market.
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