Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the SAT, 2007 Edition [Paperback]

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1080 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; Revised edition (July 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419550551
• ISBN-13: 978-1419550553
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,333,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A HUGE DISSAPOINTMENT!!!!!, July 21, 2006

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Rahul (Dunwoody, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the SAT, 2007 Edition (Paperback)

I bought this book thinking i would get some good practice..instead when i opened it i thought some questions looked familiar...so i took out the 2006 version of this book and compared the two.....BOTH ARE EXACTLY THE SAME...ALL 12 TEST..ALL THE QUESTIONS...THE ORDER...THE ESSAY...i was supremely angry....So if you have the 2006 version of this book then definitely dont purchase this book....

If you dont have the older version(s) of this book...then buy it if you want some good practice....depite dozens of errors...you will still get some good practice....i just wish that i knew this book would be the exact same as the 2006 version...then i wouldnt have bought it...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A lot for the money, but on the other hand...you get what you pay for!, March 1, 2007

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Christine M. Schroeder "mum2sparky" (Camden County, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the SAT, 2007 Edition (Paperback)

As another reviewer noted, this book is largely identical to the previous version. Less acceptable, to my point of view, is the utter failure to correct mistakes that occurred in the previous edition. Number 17 on page 124, for example, is unsolvable as written and the answer is incorrectly reasoned. I e-mailed them about this last year and they agreed that it was unsolveable as written and assured me it would be corrected in the second edition. Well it isn't! Number 12 on page 491 remains uncorrected (in addition to the answer they note, it could also have length of 85 and width of 1). Several other typos HAVE been corrected, for which I am grateful, but one would expect much greater editing accuracy in this edition, given the complete overlap with the first edition.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Remarkably easy compared to the real test. . ., June 20, 2007

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a writing teacher (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the SAT, 2007 Edition (Paperback)

I am the director of a tutoring program in Boston. Kaplan SATs can be so much easier than the real thing that I sometimes to use them to help my eighth graders prepare for high school entrance exams.

Instead of this book, buy:

1) the College Board book of real, previously administered exams (the so-called Blue Book), then
2) the more recent Princeton Review book of 11 Practice Exams.

The old College Board book, 10 Real SATs, was also great, although it did not include the writing section and the reading section was different. Still, if you are struggling with the Math section or the long Reading passages, I would buy that book even before the Princeton book. And I would buy all of those books before this one.