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Kaplan SAT Math Workbook, 4th Edition

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I used this book for about two weeks, completing all of the sections. I looked over all of the questions I had gotten wrong on my first go-around with the book on the Thursday bfore the test. I also took one of the practice tests, and it predicted within 20 points what I got on the real Math SAT.

In my sophomore year, I had gotten a 640, which was disappointing, but after using this book for two short weeks my score shot up to a 720 (as a Junior)! I would recommend this book to anybody wishing to increase their score with a concise, concentrated workbook.

Unless your score is very low on the Math section, a book full of basic skills and tricks will probably not help you. Using this workbook could be the difference between a mediocre 640 and a pretty-durn-good 720 (and only in two weeks).

Good luck!

PS: On the SAT, there was a problem that even used the same numbers as one of the questions in the Kaplan book! Weird...

In general, this book satisfies its purpose as being a math workbook, not lesson book, which provides a large number of SAT-like math questions, partitioned into categories. The book does not teach concepts like the Barron's book, but through doing the questions and reading the explanations you can extract the concepts and the train of thought. The only part where the book is slightly flawed is that some of its questions, towards the end of a question set, titled "hard," really require more thinking than is required on the real exam. However, this can only help your practice, but do not be discouraged if you can only solve some of those!

This book helped me achieve a higher score after I went through half the workbook. I increased my math score from a 610 to 700 in 3 weeks. This book does do wonders. However, some of the explainations of the problems and how to work them are vauge and really don't give you a sense on how to apply them to other problems with the same underlying concept. In conjunction with this book, I would have to recommend Kaplan's SAT 1600 and Kaplan's SAT II Math IC for mastery of harder questions and for more review.

I would definately recommend that you buy this book. The practice that it gave me was extremely helpful, as well as the "SAT Math in a Nutshell" section. The format was easy to follow and true to the SAT, giving me plenty of practice, and help where I needed it. It improved my math SAT score 50 points - from 630 to 680. And I only did about half of the book! Imagine if I had worked through the whole thing. It's not hard, however - the book is designed so that you only tackle one (approximately) 30-minute section at a time. Just remember - for best results, make sure that you start using this book 3 weeks to a month ahead of time.

The verbal workbook helped me even more, raising my score 100 points, from 660 to 760.

Kaplan's math workbook is definately worthwhile. It WILL improve your scores!

This book contains very good practice material but the explanations to the answer choices are very vague and difficult to understand.

After using Barrons Math Workbook to learn all the math concepts, I've used this book to practice as many SAT I level problems as much as possible. I've scored 780 on my test. I've done 1 set a day for a month and few days. There are 28 days. After solving all the sets in the book, SAT I Math was just a breeze.

this book has many practice problems and is well organized with a complete math summary at the end. it helped raised my score by 100 points.

The workbook is great. I know this as my older daughter used it and felt prepared after working with it for a few weeks. My younger daughter is an "accelerated" student taking honors calculus in her junior year of highschool. The problem is she doesn't remember the basics that are more often found in the SAT. Algebra, etc. So it's important to review. Now if someone could write a book about how to get your kid to open and use the book, that would be a bestseller. So far, no dice with this one.

I got a 710 on my first attempt at the math section of the SAT. Now, I wanted to improve, so I decided that the best way to up my score was to practice. So, I got my hands on this workbook and went through it diligently -- I did every problem and every practice test. I retook the SAT some months later and scored a 780 (not what I wanted, but still damned good!)

Buy it.

If you are familiar with the SAT's already, I guess it would work well with you. It provides alot of drill practices, and I believe that after completing the book it does work. I did pretty well on the math section.