| The Official SAT Study Guide, 2nd edition |  | Author: The College Board
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 Great book, but there are some errors July 27, 2009
Richard Corn
131 out of 135 found this review helpful
I am a private math tutor and author of Math Study Guide for the SAT®, ACT®, and SAT® Subject Tests - 2010 Edition. I gave this book five stars because it has the best collection of practice tests. However I found some errors:
pg 618. The answer to problem 6-14 is 5, not 6.
pg 641. Problem 13 should be c(x)=((600x-200)/x)+k.
pg 680. Decimal points are missing from problems 4-15 and 4-17.
pg 804. The decimal point is missing from problem 3-9.
pg 866. The answer to problem 7-17 is B, not C.
The only book you *must* have for SAT preparation August 4, 2009
Ashraf Eassa (New Hampshire, USA)
68 out of 70 found this review helpful
It's been a few years since I wrote my original review for the earlier edition of this book. Back then, I was a student taking the exam in order to get into college. However as a tutor I have taken the exam multiple times since I applied to college, gotten a few more 2300+ scores, and now pass on my knowledge to the next generation of students vying for competitive college admissions. The first thing I tell my students to do is to buy the Official SAT Study guide. It's simply the best. Why?
Well, first off, let me start with the changes to this new edition. It now has 10 practice tests, three of which are recycled from the new administration (now that they've given enough tests to disclose them) and seven from the original book. So I'll say now that it may not be a good idea to buy this if you have the older edition, but this newer edition is much more useful since there are three *real* exams. Other than that, it's pretty much the same as the old book.
The review sections are divided into three categories: critical reading, math, and writing. The reading section isn't all that helpful. A few obvious test taking tips and some practice passages with explained answers. Good for a warmup, but not much else. The math section, the most substantial in the book, is pretty useful. It contains most of the facts from middle schoool/early high school math that you've likely forgotten by the time you're a junior or a senior. It also has some sample problems to show you the kind of "out of the box" thinking you'll have to do: SAT math isn't a factual recall or "plug 'n chug" exam, but the section does give you the facts you need to survive. And finally the writing section. The review section has a lot of information, including good writing habits as well as a set of grammar rules.
The review sections, as I've mentioned, have good sets of review problems (that do NOT overlap with th practice tests) that will get you used to the *type* of questions, but it is the practice tests that will take you from small sprints to the longer marathon. Each practice test is comprised of real questions or questions of real-standard (mostly recycled from 10 Real SATs -- the predecessor to the first blue book). I usually suggest to my students to do two or three exams untimed but continuously, two exams in pieces (do individual sections timed), and the rest under real, pressured conditions (in a library or other quiet place preferably). Not only does this get the student used to the format, but it will get the student to try to devise ways to make his or her thinking more efficient and suitable for the exam.
The College Board, when it says the SAT can't be prepped for, is telling a half-truth. No, you can't prepare for it by cramming lots of facts, but you can prepare through practice, and in that practice your SAT skills don't just go up, but your ability to handle academic situations. Your thinking becomes clearer.
So I wholeheartedly reccomend this second edition of the Official SAT Study Guide. It's more useful than its predecessor because it has more tests and more accurate tests, and if used effectively can be the single best tool to prepare for the SAT.
Good luck and best of luck with college admissions. Don't see the SAT as an obstacle; see it as an opportunity to show what you can do.
A must have book!! December 2, 2009
Mike Erickson (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A must have book!!
This is from the people who make the real test and it has real tests. Practice with these tests, and you will do well. Practice with the tests from the other books and you will waste time. The only grip that I have is that you have to pay to get explanations to the tests.
This Book Is Good But Needs A Companion!! July 15, 2010
Leo Gardner
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is fantastic as long as it is accompanied by the right companion book. "The Offical SAT Study Guide" provides great testing material exactly like the real tests since the College Board produces the exams and this book. So it is the book to get for practice exams. The shortcoming is the lack of question explanations. Even explanations posted on-line are not very clear or useful, as my daughter an SAT test taker tells me. This dilemma is simply solved by ordering the book "STEP-BY-STEP SAT with Official SAT Study Guide Solutions" (ISBN 978-0-557-46336-7) by Dr. Ronald Fikar. This book provides detailed solutions to the College Board book, and it also has vocabulary and math formulas, which my daughter found extremely valuable. So we bought both of these books, and my daughter did well on the SAT exam. That made me appreciative enough to write reviews for both of these books!
REAL SAT QUESTIONS are the only way to go. July 24, 2009
Elizabeth King (New York, NY)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm the author of Outsmarting the SAT and I recommend that my students always use my book in tandem with this book, the College Board's official study guide. This book includes some older tests that a lot of tutors had floating around anyway, so no, it doesn't include any truly new material, but that's not really the point here. Naturally the College Board isn't going to teach you to crack its test, but the real questions in the Official Study Guide need to be your first source for sample questions. I've written test prep questions for publications for other big companies, too, and the fact is that my opinion about a possible SAT question isn't going to be as good as the real deal. Get this book, work through it, and use it in tandem with Outsmarting the SAT. Best Wishes!
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