quote: Originally posted by daNNy LuV 1TYM
i heard about that book, but does it really do any good? i mean, the fat princeton review or barron's books come with practice tests already. are they the same, or do the ones in the "10 real sat's" actually help more?
the tests on the 10 real sat's are selected from past years by the very creators of the SAT each year, tailored to provide an accurate representation of what one would see when the exam day comes around.
The Princeton review and Barron's does a mediocre job in emulating the tests, but oftentimes their writers, because of the lack of problems, have to make up some questions that end up throwing off the accuracy of their practice exam.
I would stick with the 10 Real SATs because the book gives you the "real deal" and the autheniticity of its content should be incentive enough to select it over other books, which resort to assuming what kind of questions are on the tests.
Besides I don't like some of the tips they give on testing. For example, the Princeton Review (somewhere as i recall) urges the test taker to not read the reading comprehension passage and answer the questions directly from the line citations- a method that may work for a small percentage of test takers, but something that most people cannot handle.
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