A self-assessment and five model SAT II writing tests are presented with performance evaluation charts, explained answers for multiple-choice questions, and a self-scoring guide for the essay question.
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BARRON’S
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE
SAT II
WRITING
FOURTH EDITION
Choose Barron’s Method for Success on the SAT II Writing Test
Read and understand the overview of this test
Take the self-assessment writing test
Use the self-scoring guide to discover your strengths and weaknesses
Use this book’s punctuation, grammar, and style reviews to improve your skills
Take the book’s practice SAT II Writing Tests
Score your results, and gauge your learning progress
Review the book’s model essays and compare them with your own work
It’s Your Path to a Higher SAT II Writing Score --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
BARRON’S
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE
SAT II
WRITING
FOURTH EDITION
Choose Barron’s Method for Success on the SAT II Writing Test
It’s Your Path to a Higher SAT II Writing Score --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Needs improved editing,
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This review is from: Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat II: Writing (Barrons How to Prepare for the Sat II Writing, ed 2) (Paperback)
Barron's SAT II Writing covers the basic topics on the SAT II. Its essay writing sugesstions are beneficial and useful; however, the five practice tests in the back of the book are flawed. The practice tests contain typos that greatly confuse the reader. In a few cases the book stated the answer as one thing and then had a different answer for the same question in anonther location. After taking the writing test four times (twice on the PSAT and twice on the real SAT II), I feel that many of the practice questions that Barron's offers are not similar to ones found on the test. However, if one really needs help with the SAT II Writing then Barron's will provide limited help; just don't always believe the book is correct. Personally, I prefered Kaplan's guide to the SAT II Writing.
45 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
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It Should Be Called, "How NOT to Prepare",
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This review is from: Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat II: Writing (Barrons How to Prepare for the Sat II Writing, ed 2) (Paperback)
I excel in writing and thus was eager to sit for the SAT II subject in writing. I had no preperation and scored a 790. I wanted that 800, so I bought this book. I took the tests in it and found the questions ambiguous and just dumb. My grade fluctuated wildly. This book, as some of my fellow reviewers have said, has bad examples of those problems that appear on the SAT II test. I SUGGEST THAT YOU NOT BUY THIS BOOK. An excellent book is the Princeton Review book, "Cracking the SAT II: Writing" also available on Amazon.com
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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The best review book I have ever read,
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This review is from: Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat II: Writing (Barrons How to Prepare for the Sat II Writing, ed 2) (Paperback)
In preparation for all the tests administered by the College Board I'm taking, this book by far has been the most helpful in its category, if not in general. The explanations are very thorough, there are practice and review exercises at the end of every section, and other writing preps written by Peterson, Kaplan, etc. did not even come close to what this book did for me. It gave me a thorough grasp of the grammar and usage concepts tested on the SATII, and helped me write better essays by containing many practice tests with prompts very similar to the one I encountered on the real test. I truly believe this book was a significant factor in me getting an 800 on the SATII. If you only buy one review book, by all means, make this one it.
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The SAT II: Writing is meant to test your knowledge of writing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
assessing your own writing, continue your essay, restrict your writing, sentence errors errors, item that contains the error, first black major league player, limit your essay, five alternative versions, raw composite score, identifying sentence errors, faulty idiom, soccer ball past, totally accurate prediction, incorrect sentence structure, word choice choice, faulty parallelism, best revision, personal bar code, lapses competence, faulty diction, lettered parts, faulty subordination, errors major errors, faulty coordination, underlined segment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Improving Paragraphs, Improving Sentences, New York, College Board, North Korea, Frequent Severe, Great Britain, Rating Guide Each, Martin Luther King, Patriot Act, San Diego, San Francisco, Supreme Court, Best Band Web Site, Interstate Highway System, Jackie Robinson, North Carolina, Tom Wolfe, Video Music Awards, Captain Ahab, Competent Conventional, Julie Ledbetter, Occasional Several Some, Raw Composite Score Scaled Score, Reasonably Adequate New!
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The SAT II: Writing is meant to test your knowledge of writing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
assessing your own writing, continue your essay, restrict your writing, sentence errors errors, item that contains the error, first black major league player, limit your essay, five alternative versions, raw composite score, identifying sentence errors, faulty idiom, soccer ball past, totally accurate prediction, incorrect sentence structure, word choice choice, faulty parallelism, best revision, personal bar code, lapses competence, faulty diction, lettered parts, faulty subordination, errors major errors, faulty coordination, underlined segment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Improving Paragraphs, Improving Sentences, New York, College Board, North Korea, Frequent Severe, Great Britain, Rating Guide Each, Martin Luther King, Patriot Act, San Diego, San Francisco, Supreme Court, Best Band Web Site, Interstate Highway System, Jackie Robinson, North Carolina, Tom Wolfe, Video Music Awards, Captain Ahab, Competent Conventional, Julie Ledbetter, Occasional Several Some, Raw Composite Score Scaled Score, Reasonably Adequate New!
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