<p>Hello! I just started an sat class and the teacher is using a 2005 edition of the kaplan book for sat. I feel that this is very weird… can someone enlighten me to whether or not this could disadvantage me in any way or if kaplan has changed a lot in the past 5 years?</p>
<p>also, I bought my first sat book today, the princeton review. Is this a good book? I know a lot of people are saying to do the ziggi method and use the actual bb. But is using the princeton review okay? </p>
<p>also, how should I memorize vocab? Is there a list somewhere of all the vocab words I might need to know?</p>
<p>thanks! (as you can see, I am not very knowledgeable on sat stuff yet)</p>
<p>edit: one more question-- how important are taking the psats if I’m planning on taking the sats in the fall? I haven’t taken any psat or sat yet.</p>
<p>Look, if you’ve already read the advice on these forums, then you know that people here generally follow Xiggi’s and don’t like using other prep books. If you want to disregard our advice, that’s your own problem, but you already answered your own question. </p>
<p>“do the ziggi method and use the actual bb.”</p>
<p>kaplan are maybe one of the worst book prep for the sat, they don’t follow the same direction as college board (especially math and cr) and are total disasters. if you want to improve ur sats, go and read xiggi’s advice and use only the official study guide.</p>
<p>I’m not the one using the kaplan though. It’s my teacher, and she’s using the 2005 edition. I really want to know if they 2005 edition is very different from the 2010 edition, and could it harm me in anyway to learn from such an old edition?</p>
<p>Yeah, Kaplan is the worst. Not only are their tests easier than other tests from prep companies other than Collegeboard, they’re just inaccurate.</p>
<p>Just go order the BB2 that came out recently.</p>
<p>It probably won’t harm you since test prep companies don’t add much, if anything, to the new editions. RocketReview might be a better review book than PR and Kaplan. For vocabulary, use Direct hits and PR’s list. Definitely get the new BB.</p>
<p>I second him ^^, two books you definitely need are Rocket Review(for writing and CR), and Direct Hits (for vocab). For math, I suggest you pick up Gruber’s.</p>