<p>Are these books as good as they say they are?</p>
<p>No, I think they actually suck.</p>
<p>any suggestions for ones that don’t suck? I already have PR and the blue book</p>
<p>Some people have different opinions so you shouldn’t take alpha’s statement as the only one that counts, nor should you do the same for mine but know that any type of studying is always good. </p>
<p>Blue Book-best practice questions(they’re the real SAT questions, only do practice out of this because practice questions in other review books are just based on the strategies they teach)</p>
<p>Barron’s 2400-gives some great strategies for CR in my opinion but a lot of people seem to like it since it’s built to help people get a 700+ one each section</p>
<p>Barron’s How to Prepare for the SAT 2007-2008-Basically has everything. Almost every math concept, a 3500 word list(you can just memorize the 300 or so highlighted words that appear most frequently).</p>
<p>D-Yu: If you’re already scoring at a high level and just wish to get that 2400, I think your best bet would be to do every single CB test there is. With 8 BB tests, 6 online course tests, 1 online practice test, and about 7 QAS, that should be more than enough. I found that doing real/accurate SAT tests really help you formulate your own strategies on things like CR (you begin to notice the stuff they tell you in those other prep books, like no extreme choices, as well as things they dont tell you, like getting a feel for which answer is truly the correct one - if it asks within a certain line, the answer will be found in that line ONLY etc etc). With math, if you know the formulas/concepts, then its just practice. With writing, just practice essays + have examples you know very well so its almost like writing a canned essay on the test (of course you would shift some analysis to fit the topic). Grammar rules can be found in some books like Barron’s Writing Workbook or Strunk and White’s Elements of Style, but ultimately its your application of those rules on the test, and lots of practice helps you improve your execution/realize what the SAT consistently tests on.</p>
<p>Those “2400” books may help if you need to learn the “info” on the tests, but if you know that, its all about improving your test taking skill. Books can’t internalize strategies and methods as well as plain practice can.</p>
<p>In reference to what Echelon said, books don’t increase your logic skills, only you do that. **The SAT is all about using logic to realize which concept you have to use, and books just teach you the concepts. ** The more you practice, the more you’ll be able to figure out those concepts quicker and find those quicker ways. Then again, books tell you the very common strategy of substituting the answer choices and plugging in your own #s to find the answers. Those two strategies alone can help you on even the hardest of questions.</p>
<p>I’ve heard some good stuff about rocket review, (possibly because its founder also worked for Princeton Review). Is all the fanfare legit?</p>
<p>One guy here got a 2300+ using RocketReview and the Blue Book only. He said that many elite tutors say that its strategies are great and different from other books like Barron’s and Princeton Review because those books seem to have the same strategies.</p>