CliffsTestPrep SAT I Preparation Guide (Cliffs Test Preparation Series) [Paperback]

Jerry Bobrow Ph.D. (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0822020742 | ISBN-13: 978-0822020745 | Publication Date: September 20, 1979 | Edition: 1st

writen on front cover and back, good binding, clean pages

Product Details

• Paperback: 446 pages
• Publisher: Cliffs Notes; 1st edition (September 20, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0822020742
• ISBN-13: 978-0822020745
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,143,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jerry Bobrow, Ph.D. is an award-winning educator and author. He is a national authority in the field of test preparation and has been administering the test preparation programs for most California state universities for the past 29 years. Each and every year he administers over 500 programs assisting over 17,000 students in preparing for standardized exams. Dr. Bobrow has authored over 30 national best-selling test preparation books including Cliffs Preparation Guides for the MSAT, GRE, GMAT, SAT I/PSAT, CBEST, NTE, PPST, ELM, GED and ACT tests.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy this book, August 23, 1998

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This review is from: CliffsTestPrep SAT I Preparation Guide (Cliffs Test Preparation Series) (Paperback)

I do not recommend this book. It does not use realistic "SAT like" questions. It is full of ambiguities. While actual SAT questions are also commonly quite ambiguous, the Cliffs book seems to misunderstand the purpose of putting ambiguities into questions. In the real SAT, the ambiguities are offered in order to distinguish one answer as clearly the 'most correct.' The Cliffs questions are cheap imitations of the ETS questions. While Cliffs maintains the ambiguity of real SAT questions, they fail to establish a clear unarguably correct answer. Questions on the SAT, on the other hand, are much more 'self-defensive,' in the sense that they have exactly one correct answer, which cannot be argued easily. Cliffs misinterprets the ambiguity in SAT questions. In particular, I do not recommend the CD-ROM of this Cliffs studyware. It is horrible. It is the same material of the book, of course, but the CD does not use the advantages of using a computer. It is practically the same thing as the book. I admit, it is very easy to use. Like microsoft products, it sacrafices content and depth for shallow user-friendliness. In addition, the Cliffs book is severely outdated. If you want to prepare for the SAT, check out Barrons or Princeton Review--do not look to Cliffs for help!