taav_2

Okay thanks. Did you have any more formulas like the distance one?

juenatics

i read xiggi's tips on math...but did xiggi ever write anything about the CR and the new Writing section?

Kowloon

Xiggi and others have continously said that other workbooks than the Official SAT by CollegeBoard arent worth their price. I have the Bluebook, Rocket review, PR 11 practice tests, Barron's, Barron's 2400, Kaplan's 2400.

I found Barron's 2400 VERY helpful, but Kaplan's 2400 not even worth the paper.
So... are other books (especially the ones that I bought) helpful, or even worth it?

Echelon32

I agree with Xiggi, I have only used "official" materials, like the blue book, online course, and QAS. By doing them/redoing the tests/marking key mistakes and errors that i need to avoid, it was very beneficial. Also, you can order ~5 previously administered PSATs - the CR portions are pretty much the same (M and W may be easier)

Ykim917

Question:

What was the formula for average speed again? It deals with questions like:

If Bob takes 1 hour to go to work and 3 hours back, what's the distance?

Also, what is the sequences formula? It had to do with the remainder after dividing the term you have to find by the number at which the seq repeats, and the remainder is the answer or something.

Thanks.

Godfatherbob

This is the average speed formula (which doubles as a distance formula when the time is ONE HOUR) of which Xiggy initially spoke:

(2*[speed1]*[speed2]) / ([speed1] + [speed2])

However, you need the speed of Bob to determine the distance, not the time.

Double-however, Xiggy's point was that this formula is NOT NEEDED! All you need to know is that the answer will be slightly smaller than the mean of the two speeds. That knowledge will guarantee a correct answer on every one of this type of question (assuming the time is ONE HOUR) and only requires about 3 seconds of thinking. Xiggy's example is on page 2 (hit ctrl-f and type in "bicycle" to fast-forward to it).

I just discovered this thread today, and some of this stuff is ingenious. Think about it: Bob drives at 34.6mph to get to work and 85mph to get back, the round trip takes one hour, how far away does bob work? Gee, let's use POE and get a nice 400 on the SAT. Better yet, a complicated formula in which you're likely to make a computational error and waste valuable time. Or, let us instead use the Xiggy method and take the average of these two numbers, around 60, take away a little, say 5, and find the answer closest to 55. And now let us use the remaining 55 seconds to take a short catnap, read a page of the Great Gatsby, and find out ONCE AND FOR ALL how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop.

SSAT

Okay listen up y'all!! This is what brought more score up 200 points for both the Reading, Writing, and Math section!!! First more scores were 600 on all subjects, exactly 600 this sucked so bad I needed help by a man. This man, is no ordinary man, he's Soowook! I mean it! All you have to do is google him and click on the first site given and then he will provide a lot of GREAT strategies not contained in any kind of BOOK!! Please take Soowook into consideration.

collegeinfo91

umm for the College Board Online Program..
someone said the tests could be printed from online...
would anyone happen to have scans or downloads of the tests online???
i am through all the tests in the blue book and still not satisfied completely....
THANKS...contact me please =D

susandaine

Hey, anybody can tell me who Xiggi is?

Godfatherbob

When the thread started, he was a Sophomore at Claremont McKenna, so I assume he graduated last June. Unless I got the years wrong, in which case he's a Senior now.

stevehwan

i found it that i didnt have the motivation and the determination to study on my own so i begged my parents to send me to SAT prep class. so far i have improved 200 pts. can anyone help me start a post or thread or whatever its called? i am new at this

Godfatherbob

Xiggy's a genius. I took a BB test about a month ago. I spent 2 weeks thinking about his approach to math, and the second 2 weeks reading RR (maybe 20 minutes per night). About 3 and a half hours ago I took another BB test. Writing went down 20, CR down 10 (mainly because I lost track of time on a morbidly boring passage about Mark Twain), and math. . . ? Up 170! 590 to a 760! I only missed two questions (and didn't omit any).

crcowboyfan

Godfather, what did you do to study the math?

Godfatherbob

Read Rocket Review. And place special emphasis on the problem:

x^2 + y^2 = A number
(x + y)^2 = Another number
xy = ?

crcowboyfan

Is there an update to the 10 Real SATs book by TCB? If so, could you post an amazon link?