Customer Reviews

Kaplan SAT & PSAT 2002 with CD-ROM, Spring Edition

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This book is ok, better than Princeton Review's SAT book which is essentially a joke. Kaplan's book is also more visually appealing. Their practice tests are almost as unrealistic as those in the Princeton Review book, but the material in here is pretty decent. If you're looking between Kaplan and Princeton Review, defintely go with Kaplan. This could help your score - probably raised my score 40-50 points.

I like this book better than the other brands because the format is easy to follow and it gives detailed explanations to each and every question. Some of the other brands, their info is scrunched together, making it look messy and complicated. Kaplan makes it a step-by-step process that makes you believe that you really can improve and succeed. I highly recommend it.

I have done a number of SAT prepatory books; the 10 Real SATs. Barron's, Grubert, and recently I finished this one. There are actually only 3 tests in the book, the rest of the tests are in the cd rom. The book itself is decent, although the tests and examples are a bit easy, and the scale for the scores are too high. However, if you really want to get ready, you'll be better off buying the Grubert first.

I bought this Kaplan SAT book, and their verbal and math workbooks for the SAT. In comparison, I would buy the 2 workbooks over this book. I feel like I have learned more strategies, which were also more clearly presented, and got better examples from the combination of those two books, than what I learned from this book. Also, the scales for the practice tests aren't true to a real SAT.

If you don't believe me, then listen to this true story:
I got this book in the mail 2 days before my SAT exam. The day before the exam, I decided to read the verbal section, and then when I did a practice SAT, my verbal score jumped 100 points from 630 to 730. Amazing, non?

Very good book. I recommend it for anyone.