<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Boot Camp for Your Brain: A No-Nonsense Guide to the SAT I, Second Edition: M. Denmark Manning: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Boot-Camp-Your-Brain-No-Nonsense/dp/1413464718/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Boot-Camp-Your-Brain-No-Nonsense/dp/1413464718/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)</p>
<p>112 reviews? 5 stars overall? Higher rankings then the Official SAT Prep book… Just wondering if someone has studied the SAT with this book. If so what did you think of it.</p>
<p>Looking at the reviews every single reviewer has only reviewed one item, this book… Is this a big scam of some kind or is it really that good?</p>
<p>I don’t have any experience with this book, but it was published in 2004, so it would be outdated with the new style SAT. </p>
<p>This is my hypothesis:
M. Manning is a very good SAT teacher. He seems to have a solid method… having extremely small class sized to fully evaluate the student and cater towards their needs. He has them take a diagnostic SAT to see where the students are lacking and then uses his techniques with the BB to create familiarness with the test and create the good skills needed for the SAT. Instead of teaching kids bogus, useless methods, he has the kids sit down and fully evaluate their mistakes they make on REAL SAT tests. By doing so, he essentially just gets kids to sit down and do the BB as hard as they can which provides the kids a classroom setting that some need in order to study for the SAT. Meanwhile, he tells them the “Hit” vocabulary and has them memorize it. Then he, the teacher, helps students with their problems in the BB. </p>
<p>Basically, I think the person is just a BB instructor teaching the kids the correct methods and providing a classroom setting for kids who are not efficient enough on their own to study and caters to their needs by having a small class size. Then, the parents and kids, oblivious to the fact that the BB was actually the factor that made the great score increase, they attribute it to him and his book, giving him great PR. </p>
<p>I am making an assumption from the facts off his/her website, and that’s my best guess. I say stick with the Blue Book.</p>