<p>Also, I made this thread, because I do not believe the Amazon ratings, they could be made by Dr Chungs friends and such.</p>
<p>Bump for srs thread</p>
<p>I have the book, and it is prettyy hard, and it seems like to me he has a lot of geometry and figures in his questions… so that is a plus for me because I suck at geometry on the SAT. His 20 tips are really helpful, I’m on number 5 because I got the book like 3 or 4 days ago, and i’m really trying to absorb his explanation and how the question is worded, so I know what to do on the SAT. So, yes it is a book filled with hard questions and his " 20 perfect tips".</p>
<p>^It’s 50 tips, but nonetheless I find it very useful. I was scoring 760 before starting the book and now I’m on the 24th tip and already feel more confident about the test because he basically covers every type of problem. And then the 20 tests reinforce all the types, which is an added benefit.</p>
<p>srry its 50 tips, thanks Somewhere 2017</p>
<p>1) Yes, the questions are much harder than those on the SAT. The 20 practice tests force you to think outside the box, and it makes the actual SAT look very easy after you practice intensively with this book (atleast that was the case for me). </p>
<p>2) I used the book for a month (early May to early June) and it helped my score get from a 670 to a 780, and should’ve been an 800 but I made one dumb mistake. </p>
<p>3) I will admit, some of the explanations are a bit vague and the book has a decent amount of typos, but most of the explanations are adequate enough to understand why you got a particular question wrong. I kept scoring around 620-680 on these tests, but on the actual SAT I scored much higher because the book made it much easier. I suggest you go through the 50 tips intensively before you practice the tests, and look at the explanations to find out why you got a particular question wrong. That’s the most important part, knowing why you got something wrong, so you don’t repeat mistakes.</p>
<p>Yeah about the vagueness - there’s some questions that you just won’t get no matter how much time you try to comprehend the explanation - if you run into a question like that, don’t waste time. Just move on - chances are something that difficult won’t show up on your actual SAT test.</p>
<p>Given 2 <= P <= 8 and 1<= Q<= 4. By how much is the maximum value of P/Q greater than the minimum value of P/Q?</p>
<p>This is his tip # 3 and I do not understand what he is trying to say in his tip, so can someone please explain to me how to do this question?</p>
<p>First, note that P and Q are both positive. You are looking for P/Q. Since P and Q cover a range of values, P/Q will also cover a range of values. How would you make P/Q largest?
Stop reading here if you are getting it now.</p>
<p>Otherwise, continue to here.
To make P/Q largest, you want P as large as possible and Q as small as possible. That would mean you want P = 8 and Q = 1. That means that 8 is the maximum possible value of P/Q with P and Q in the ranges specified.</p>
<p>Now, how would you make P/Q as small as possible, given the ranges of P and Q?</p>
<p>You would put 2/4…ok that really helped and it was really simple…I was overthinking it for some reason, and thanks alot you really helped me</p>
<p>Thanks guys. It really seems like not much people use Dr Chung though :(</p>
<p>I will get it. It seems really helpful. </p>
<p>How would you guys rate it from a 10 scale?</p>
<p>I don’t trust amazon ratings.</p>
<p>livelikeali, based on several of your posts, you seem to struggle with the book you are using. Perhaps you should consider changing direction and focusing on real SATs for a while, and this until you start to feel more comfortable with the issues presented in your book.</p>
<p>Fwiw, using material that is beyond the typical SAT question serves little to no purpose. This why the typical book that contains synthetic (non ETS) questions are between mediocre to close to worthless. Are the answers crystal clear to you? Does the book have typos? If you answer no to the first and yes to the second, you know you’re working with a poor source.</p>
<p>Nothing precludes you to return to the book at the end of your preparation, but I really think you are not using your time in the best manner.</p>
<p>I posted this in another thread:</p>
<p>*livelikeali, based on several of your posts, you seem to struggle with the book you are using. Perhaps you should consider changing direction and focusing on real SATs for a while, and this until you start to feel more comfortable with the issues presented in your book.</p>
<p>Fwiw, using material that is beyond the typical SAT question serves little to no purpose. This why the typical book that contains synthetic (non ETS) questions are between mediocre to close to worthless. Are the answers crystal clear to you? Does the book have typos? If you answer no to the first and yes to the second, you know you’re working with a poor source.</p>
<p>Nothing precludes you to return to the book at the end of your preparation, but I really think you are not using your time in the best manner. *</p>
<p>Bottom line? Caveat Emptor!</p>
<p>@xiggi, I think the explanations are not clear, and I don’t really understand them, but I think that when I do FULLY understand them, and how to do the question it will really help me on the math section because these are exactly similar question which I get wrong in the BB.</p>
<p>But if I do stop using this book for right now, what do you suggest I do? Should I take all of the practice tests in the BB and then understand them completely? But I feel that when I do that i’m not really preparing myself for all of the questions that may come on the SAT.</p>
<p>“But if I do stop using this book for right now, what do you suggest I do? Should I take all of the practice tests in the BB and then understand them completely?”</p>
<p>Yes!</p>
<p>"But I feel that when I do that i’m not really preparing myself for all of the questions that may come on the SAT. "</p>
<p>You will never be able to avoid any surprises, but nothing says that the book you use comes close to anything that will appear on the SAT.</p>
<p>Another way to do this problem is to use each pair of extreme values. There are 4 pairs in all:</p>
<p>p=2, q=1, p/q=2
p=2, q=4, p/q=.5
p=8, q=1, p/q=8
p=8, q=4, p/q=2</p>
<p>So max value is 8, min value is .5. Thus max value is 7.5 bigger than min value.</p>
<p>Note: It is a little quicker to reason out which will be biggest and which will be smallest without computing all 4 possibilities, but many students may get confused and pick the wrong ones. The method I provided takes a bit longer but is foolproof.</p>
<p>Remark: You should not really be attempting many problems like this unless your current math score is around a 700 or higher.</p>
<p>I did the 50 tips first, now starting the tests.
It’s boring either way…</p>
<p>true that… its really boring and a lot of his explanations are very vague. Also, do you think that the 50 tips really helped you in the areas you were weak in. Like for example, mine is like all of the geometric questions with the figures. I suck at those and it seems like this book has a lot of geometric questions, so im hoping it will make me confident in the geometry part of the math section also. One last thing, have you taken a before and after test from the BB and, if so, how much did you improve. If you haven’t taken it yest, are you going to?</p>
<p>I took the 10BB tests, hovering at a 670-700 avg. like you.
Then I planned to complete the book.
But I am really bored with it and may just do Gruber’s which I checked out from the library.
I am happy with 700 though, as I am planning to enter a CC guaranteed transfer program which doesn’t require extremely high SAT scores.</p>
<p>My problem is that I sometimes can’t get to all of the math problems. I am too slow…</p>
<p>Being boring isn’t really a helpful statement. The whole test is boring, even from the BB. Lol.</p>
<p>I just ordered Dr Chung.</p>
<p>I had a 60 on the Math (PSAT, so it’s basically a range of 600-620). I skipped plenty of questions, especially the hard ones. Let’s see what I get after it.</p>