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Cracking the Virginia SOL EOC English: Reading, Literature, and Research (Princeton Review: Cracking the Virginia SOL)

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This is a superb test prep book. It will undoubtedly help students prepare for the Virginia SOL EOC and get higher scores. It imparts test taking strategies in a much more effective and impactful way than other resources.

But it is more than just a test prep book. It also includes an engaging review of English literature, providing students with the context to help understand broader themes and issues. By doing so, it will provide students with the ability to solve harder questions on the test. Most importantly, it will give students and teachers confidencce, knowing that they will approach the test having worked with the best resource available to prepare for the test.

When I saw the title of this book, I admit that I didn't notice the Eoc which is really EOC, End of Course. The long and short of it is, I thought it addressed all of the VA Reading SOL tests. If I had seen the Eoc, I would have realized that this book is geared for the 11th grade test only. This book is probably more useful for self-motivated students than teachers (or for use in an at-risk group or in a remediation program). The released items are available for free to all at the VA Dept. of Ed. website. The test strategies are-- process of elimination, writing the answers in the book before transferring them to the Scantron sheet, marking difficult questions to come back to later and answering every question. If you can navigate the web, this info. can be accessed in the Teacher Resource Guides per subject. If you aren't a teacher, you can still access the guides for free.