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5.0 out of 5 stars
Very funny! My son actually read it ., July 24, 2000
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This review is from: Kaplan SAT Verbal Velocity (Paperback)
I bought this book because my son's Verbal scores on his practice SAT showed he needed help. This book gives you a list of important SAT vocabulary words and a bunch of vocabulary building activities that are so funny, the whole family got into reading it aloud. I know this book helped my son because he really read it. I learned a few new words myself! Seriously, I never could have gotten my son to study as much as he did if we hadn't found this book. I highly recommend it, especially for kids who don't like to study.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
not worth it, January 11, 2002
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this book is not worth it, especially 15 freakin bucks, which is worth one of those 800 pages books...or with 15 bucks i could have gotten me a copy of 10 real sats!
the words are too basic, and the book doesnt really help u understand vocabulary... i already knew most of the words
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Engaging, but many words seem basic, August 14, 2001
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A year ago, I added this book to my wish list on a whim. I had heard that the SAT verbal was very difficult, and I thought I should study for it. I was surprised to actually receive the book as a birthday present. Recently I picked it up and began looking at it. I love to read, and I scored 760 on the SAT II writing test; English is my strong point. Nonetheless, I am no genius, and I was surprised that I already knew a good portion of the words.
Each page of this book features a few amusing paragraphs with brief exercises to teach ten or so of the few hundred words which the author feels are likely to appear on the SAT verbal. When I read the table of contents, I shuddered. I really don't care much about the Backstreet Boys or Brad Pitt's girlfriends. However, on closer inspection I discovered that many of the topics are historical anecdotes written with the author's dry humor. Topics include Watergate, prison overcrowding, Hunter S. Thompson, and Barry Goldwater.
The book is very engaging, but I know many of the words (such as condone, culpable, nefarious, aspired), so I think I will read it for entertainment and only do exercises for unfamiliar words. The exercises consist of multiple choice (after reading the word used, what does it mean?), paragraph writing (use these four vocab words to write a tv news report about Chicago's 1968 riots, for example), and definitions (after reading the word in context, what does it mean?). A glossary in the back of the books is included for reference. There are 61 different topics in the book.
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