jumpngo

maybe. you need to learn the basicsa though that pertain to each question

Godfatherbob

No.

The idea behind taking practice tests is not to diagnose yourself (although that is a useful boon), but to learn from your mistakes. Granted, those last problems are the hardest. Yet, that should in no way mitigate the value of thoroughly going through them and understanding why you got each one wrong. Go through it thoroughly enough so that if you were to change every number in the problem, you could solve it in 30 seconds.

As you begin to get better at solving math problems you'll notice your error pattern will shift from a lack of knowledge to an abundance of mistakes. Maybe you'll distribute wrong, or solve for the wrong variable, or confuse radius and diameter. Then, you work on your strategy, using prep books--I recommend Rocket Review, others have recommended Grubers.

Tilgaham

Thanks!

Too bad my library does not have anything other than a few tattered copies of the Princeton Review and Barrons books.

Thankfully I have one of two of the "Cracking The New SAT" from PR available =)

archonx123

Is there some sort of complete document with Xiggi's wealth of information? If so, I would love a PM with it!

entomom

Go to my post #575 on pg. 39 for a summary of the Xiggi method:

Xiggi's SAT prep advice

ayeleswarapu

I have to say, I used the advice from this forum to prep for yesterday's exam, and I am feeling so confident walking out of there. I will admit, I am one of those people who forked over the 1100 to Kaplan to learn from them, and it was truly a waste of my time and money. After taking the test for the first time in December 07, I have a 2050. To tell you the truth, I didn't use any of Kaplan's strategies at all. However, thanks to all of you wonderful people on this forum, I am feeling a high 22 or maybe a 23 for yesterday. Thanks to all the people, Xiggi and Godot specifically, though.

Ren the SAT'er

GOSH!!!i spent.... about 5 hours.. total, reading thru all the pages.
i am planning to get the rocketreview, testmaster(maybe? is it really good?), maximum sat, grammatix.
i have SAT tutor,but i feel like im not learning anything right now, because my classmates aren't bright, so im delayed.
like everyone else,i have problems with CR, but i have a VERY resolute determination. i used to devote 2 hrs each night(during school time), for SAT. but now i fear, i fear that i can't beat the CR section.
i'm going to use xiggi's method soon, as soon as school's over, my SAT spirit will rise!
hopefully i will return, and thank you for the helpful advice.

mcgyver1

There is no substitute for taking practice tests AND most importantly, reviewing each problem as to why it is right or wrong. IMO the blue book and testmasters answers are the two most valuable resources and they can be further supplemented with RR.

Preptastic

Obviously you wouldn't be able to do this and nothing else, but what does everyone think about the efficacy of an audiobook, in addition to practice tests and the like, instead of a traditional book? Would your kids be more willing, excited, etc. to prep for the SAT if they could do it with, oh, about a three and a half hour audiobook, as opposed to a regular book?

Thoughts?

jenchow1992

Hi sorry i probly spelled his sn wrong but i just started reading this post and its great full of info but can someone give me the LO down who this person is ? yall practically treat him/her like a god of the SATs on here.lol

mediocresniper

Grammatix is by far the best piece of SAT test prep I've ever seen.

It's hard to describe how good it is with words. I didn't believe the author of the product when he said that he had managed to raise his brother's SAT score (BTW, this is the old 1600-scale SAT) from like 1200 to 1600 in 9 hours simply by teaching him the techniques presented in the Grammatix SAT guide... now I do.

Ren the SAT'er

08-20-2005, 01:04 PM #279
tanman
Senior Member


Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Student @ JHU (Baltimore, MD) / Houston, TX
Threads: 26
Posts: 2,117 Is there anyone out there who has used the CB Online course, the Testmasters solutions book and the Studyhall.com service or any combination of the three? We've had reviews of all three services, but I've never seen a comparison of any of the solution services



i still wanna know this, can someone answer this?

3365

anyone know what's best to improve CR? i got 640 on the march sat in cr and would like to be up in the 700's. anyone?

entomom

For CR, my D liked Maximum SAT.

Frogmaster13

Personally I think most studying for the SAT is a waste of time. People obsess about the SAT way too much; they've developed all these little tricks and strategies (I've heard a lot...from "ignore the quote on the essay; it's designed to mislead you" to "don't read the long passages, just hunt for the answers"). If students would just take the test like they would take any other, the scores would probably stay about the same.

Now I'm not saying don't study at all, but if you take the test once, get a feel for it, and maybe look over some vocabulary the second time, you should be fine.

I've taken it twice; got a 1920 the first time and a 2170 the second. I didn't prepare for more than an hour either time. I'm not trying to sound arrogant but I think a lot of time is wasted preparing for this test that could be spent preparing for other aspects of academics.