<p>I’m from Canada, but I’m hoping to apply to Harvard, but I know little about the SATs. I understand the breakdown pretty much. Does anyone know what would be a good study guide, or what I should do to prepare (other than hiring a tutor for 100$ an hour lol). ?</p>
<p>You need some prep books, advanced prep books if you’re trying to get into Harvard. Get the official collegeboard studyguide(aka the Blue Book) for practice tests. Buy books like Gruber’s 2008 and RocketReview to aim your score for 750+ on each section. BRIEFLY look over Princeton Review as it tells you how to plug in your own #s for the hardest questions or to substitute the answer choices. Barron’s How to Prepare for the SAT 2007-2008 covers a huge array of concepts that you may like as well. You have a long way to go for the SAT! Just keep taking practice tests to see how you do, why you get answers wrong. The more questions you answer, the more familiar you will become with the questions, the answers that they expect, and how they trick you.</p>
<p>thank you so much!</p>
<p>Start with the Princeton Review book (Cracking the SAT). It has the best overall review of the test and will quickly tell you what you need to know about how it’s written and what the tricks are (the SAT has a fair amount of traps in it to mess you up, very nice of the College Board). </p>
<p>I’ve read good things about those other books too, and of course, you must also practice with the official College Board tests. They’re golden. The Princeton Review tests are great practice also.</p>
<p>I have the PR PSAT version. Are there any differences between the PSAT and SAT version strategy-wise?</p>
<p>I would say to learn techniques from Barrons 2400 for Critical Reading (try outline reading), Princeton Review for Math, Kaplan Writing workbook for writing and feel free to look up grammar concepts you miss ONLINE!! (ESL websites are actually really good even if English is your first language).</p>
<p>Then for practice: do the College Board book and the PR 11 Practice Exams book. </p>
<p>I don’t know what the PR PSAT looks like but I don’t think there are any differences between the PSAT and SAT in terms of strategy since they are pretty much the same only one is longer.</p>
<p>I would still get the SAT version, because you need to do the full SAT tests, not the shorter PSAT tests. Building up your stamina is key!!</p>