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Gruber's Complete Preparation for the New Sat: Featuring Critical Thinking Skills (7th ed)

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If you really want to maximize your SAT score, this book is what can help you attain your goal. Not only does it thouroghly review all the elements of the SATs, it has a prominent method of finding out how you make your mistakes. I suggest two books that you should get.1: this book 2: 10 Real SATs (also a good book which has the REAL tests) P.S. Stay away from the Kaplan and the Princeton, they misrepresent people with their "famous" names. All they are good for is teaching you stuff that you already know.

I have been studying this book for the past 2 months. Although its math section has proven to be exceptional, outlining the intricacies of the questions in detail, its verbal section is sorely lacking. Moreover, the ostensibly revolutionary critical thinking skills are no more than common sense. However, the book is supplemented with a variety of sections including a useful 3,200 word list (if you have about 4 months to learn it all)and 5 full-length practice tests. Holistically speaking, it's very good. But purchase a separate verbal book.

"Gruber's Complete Preparation for the New SAT" is truly one of the best SAT Preparation Books out there. Unlike other SAT books that claim to "Prep. you for the SAT", this book focuses, not on drill, drill, drill, but on enhancing Critical Thinking skills and teaches the strategies that are needed to successed on the SAT and which will last a life time. Strategies and Critical Thinking Skills taught in this book reflect those of test makers them selves, and is a sure thing for SAT success! I would highly recommend this book to anyone taking the SAT!

Simply the best book I have ever read! Can help even a small kid learn how to think analytically. The simplicity with which logical thinking is taught is amazing! I would recommend this book to anyone even if they are not preparing for the SAT.

We've used the Gruber's text in our community SAT PREP programs for over 5 years with excellent results. The new 8th edition is even more comprehensive. Any student using this is getting a comparable experience to Kaplan or Princeton Review.

The first time I took a sample SAT test, I got a math score of 800 (good) but a verbal score of 400 (very bad). I read this book, every day, every weekend, for months. The word lists are simply amazing, and the idea of categorizing synonyms really helped so much that two years after taking the SAT, I still remember most of the word lists (example: PRAISE :- "acclaim, applaud, commend, eulogize, ..."). Some of the words in these lists are a little easy, but that's what helped me remember them even more (It would have been very intimidiating to read a word list in which ALL words were new!).

There are many useful practice tests, and quite a few of them are amazingly similar to (but a little harder than) the ones you will find on actual tests.

I ended up with a pretty good score in the end: 800M (as before) and 700+V (much better than before!). But please also buy "Cracking the SAT" by Princeton Review and "10 Real SATs" by the College Board. These books are a great investment; they helped me get into my dream school.

This is the best book i've seen in ages. this book not just helps you learn the material, it also teaches you what you did wrong. It gives you so many different tips on how to approache different types of problem questions. it raised my score from a 890 to a 1410. thank you gruber, this is the best ....

I think this book is very good. The only problem I get with the book is that whenever I write on the book with a pen or pencil, it sometimes breaks the page. So the paper's not very good. However, I found this book very interesting and unique from other SAT books. It offers a very complete SAT at-home preparation and it teaches you Critical Thinking Skills that last a lifetime. I also find this book very easy to read and to understand, and they make their explanations clear, to the point, and easy to understand. It offers a lot of practice tests/quizzes and I find that very helpful. Also, they suggest you memorize the roots of words instead of memorizing a whole word one by one. I can't say if I got a good score on the SAT with this book yet because I haven't taken it yet. All I can say is good luck on your SAT book search!!

This is the best, most solid SAT-prep out there, and is more thorough than any other book out there. It's a great choice to help you guys reach your full potential on the SAT, but you should be aware that there's a newer edition available, so check that out first.

I'm a professional SAT-prep instructor, and I like this book because it teaches all the little tricks that you need to know to raise your score, AND it gives you all the background stuff you'll need to know to do well on your test, e.g., a comprehensive math review, thousands of words that are likely to appear on the test, etc.

Without a doubt the best SAT-prep book on the market.

This is simply a great book. It is organized into clear, concise strategies. After reading this book, I can safely say that I am confident in my math abilities. I have yet to finish the reading/writing section yet, but I am sure that it will also be good. If you don't understand it, you're probably just skimming through it. Don't do that. Absorb it all, because each and every word is important.