Grubers Complete SAT Guide 2010 Reviews?

kaitlin01
Sun, 09 May 2010 00:00:56 +0000

I would agree with the general consensus in this board –> use the blue book.

Like I said Gruber’s is a great starting point for math, so you could use that first and work your way up. What are your weaknesses? What exactly is the breakdown of that 1350 score?

For writing, although I did read through Gruber’s grammar review, I depended on tests to kind of make my own list of grammar rules. I suggest Sparknotes 7 Deadly Screw-Ups ([SAT: Improve SAT Score with SparkNotes: The Seven Deadly Screw-Ups](SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides)) as a starting point. And then it’s up to you if you’d like to go through the Gruber’s grammar (or any other book for that matter). Personally I don’t think they’ll help much; they either reiterate what Sparknotes had already said, or they’d just confuse me. I suggest you then start taking practice tests (from anywhere), identify which rules you have a hard time spotting, and work on those. You can always clarify grammar questions here; they’ll tell you too if certain questions wouldn’t likely be tested. If you haven’t noticed, I have a writing thread full of questions that crazybandit answers; he’s basically my grammar teacher

For CR, just remember that EVERY ANSWER IS IN THE PASSAGE. That’s it. You just have to work on speed. I did use Grammatix for some strategies (it was quite helpful), but mainly you have to practice a LOT. I would highlight the words I don’t know on every practice test I take, and that’s how I learn vocab. Barron’s CR workbook wasn’t bad for sentence completions. For passage based readings, I’d depend on CB because the questions in various books don’t always mirror actual CB questions.