Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT (Barron's Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT) [Paperback]

Sharon Weiner Green (Author), Mitchel Weiner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764133810 | ISBN-13: 978-0764133817 | Publication Date: February 1, 2006 | Edition: 12

Concentrating on the Critical Reading section of the newly structured SAT college entrance exam, this test-preparation workbook presents tips, questions, answers, and answer explanations for the section’s two main question types—sentence completion questions and reading comprehension questions—as well as extensive vocabulary review. Both the sentence completion and the reading comprehension exercises are organized according to level of difficulty and presented in three sections, labeled from A to C. Students who master Level C in both parts are well on the road to achieving a high Critical Reading score when they take the actual SAT. This new workbook replaces Barron's Verbal Workbook for the New SAT, 11th Edition.

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From the Inside Flap

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Hundreds of exercises with questions and answers that reflect the current SAT format

Exercises cover sentence completion and reading comprehension

Test-taking tips plus an extensive vocabulary review

Instructions on creating your own test-preparation flash cards --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

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Choose Barron’s Method for Success on the SAT’s Critical Reading Section

Read the Critical Reading overview and understand how the section is scored

Use the book’s vocabulary review to sharpen your reading comprehension

Do the Level A practice exercises and score your results

Review the answers and explanations for all Level A questions

When you have mastered Level A exercises, progress to Levels B and C

It’s Your Path To a Higher Test Score

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 12 edition (February 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764133810
• ISBN-13: 978-0764133817
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #490,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It helped me, March 21, 2008

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Naseem Rakla "Blag" (NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT (Barron's Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT) (Paperback)

HEY i'm a highschool junior and I had a projected 650 for the SAT critical reading from the PSATs but i worked through the practice sections (and there are A LOT of good practices in this book) and got a 740 after 2 weeks working through this book on the actual SAT. so yeah, it's definitely helpful. It also has a lot of good vocabulary practice and tip and several critical reading practice tests.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent practice tests and vocabulary, September 1, 2008

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This review is from: Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT (Barron's Critical Reading Workbook for the SAT) (Paperback)

Obviously, this book can not be your only guide to the SAT;it only covers a third of it. But it does a very thorough job with the Critical Reading section. The sentence completion practice tests (4 tests per set, 3 different difficulty level sets) are very close to the real College Board ones. The reading comprehension pieces are decent; nothing amazing, but as good as close to the real SAT as you can find.

The most valuable part of this book (for the average person), is the comprehensive vocabulary list. It consists of 800 words (80 sets of 10 words). Being very familiar with the actual SAT, I can say that the words on the list are indeed very high-frequency SAT words. If you know every word on that list it would be hard to answer more than 2 sentence completion questions incorrectly on the real SAT. For the vocabulary list alone, the book is worth the buy.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Disapointing, July 23, 2009

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This review is from: Barron's SAT Critical Reading Workbook (Critical Reading Workbook for the Sat) (Paperback)

I used Baron's for the SAT Math Subject Test and it was great. However, for the reading Baron's was terrible. My main issue with this book is that the questions in the practice tests ARE NOT similar to the questions you will actually see on the test. Most books especially Collegeboard's have acurate questions. However, this book had styles of reading comprehension questions that I had not seen in a dozen practice tests. Baron's had a lot of "pretty general" questions that would ask about details from a group of paragraphs. I had never seen this sort of question. Baron's asks a lot of these. Other practice tests that I have seen had a lot of questions asking about main ideas, tone of the passage, comparing passages, and specific detail questions (citing specific lines). Baron's had a few of these questions types, but definitely not as many as on other tests. My point is that Baron's may make you a better critical reader through these exercises, BUT it will not prepare you well for the types of questions you will see on the SAT reading test. There were also a lot of typos in the book. Lastly, the sentence completion questions were alright and the vocabulary lists were good. However, this does not make up for the inadequate reading passage questions.