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Kaplan SAT Verbal Workbook, 4th Edition

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When I purchased this book, I hoped that it would help me improve my SAT score. It has helped my improve my score, but lacked some of the tricks that I had expected to find in it. This book offers a great amount of practice problems and excellent explanations, but it gives very little information about some of the test taking tips that other books give. So, if you're looking for a book that gives you a lot of practice with verbal problems, this books is excellent. However, if you hope to find tricks of the trade in this book, look somewhere else because this book gives very minimal.

The vocabulary list contained in this book goes on for 90 pages, and contains about 2500 words. Since last month, I have taken the challenge to memorize them all. Everyday, I also took one of the 30 or so question sets (10 analogy, 10 fill-in, 10 reading). By now, I am 2/3 of the way finished. This contributed greatly to the increase of my verbal score to 750 (from 650) on the practice SAT test.

Besides, I also have "hot words for SAT 1", and the Barron's guide. This is because one book does not offer enough practices. Getting a couple books is also advantagous because the varying teaching styles makes the task of memorization less monotonous.

Well what can I say.. This book is work of art... It is the score raiser..!!^^ KAPLAN thank you.. with your SAT Verbal Workbook and Princeton Review's Word Smart, and College Board's 10 Real SATs,, I raised 200 points of SAT verbal section... My verbal score was 530 before I met these three fascinating books 9month ago.. This June, however, my official SAT verbal score was 730... KAPLAN's questions were awesome.. It gave me courage and built my vocab power!!! I always recommend ur book to people around me who are struggling with the SAT...Thank u again for restoring my dream by giving me courage...!!

I first had my experience with an SAT-like test in the PSAT, which I took in 10th grade. I did fairly well, receiving a 68 (out of 80) on the verbal section; however, this year in 11th grade when I took the PSAT again, my verbal score went down 5 points to a 63, a fact that I found quite distressing. In an effort to raise my verbal score when it came time to take the real thing, I decided that this looked like a good investment, and boy was I right. Doing a good number of the practice problems in this helped me raise my score to a 750 on the verbal portion of the actual SAT. I also purchased and recommend "The Procrastinator's Guide to the SAT," another book by Kaplan, as the use of both together will help any of you out there looking to improve your verbal score.

This book is a must-need if you are struggling in the verbal section of the SAT*. This book guides you with the the main concepts and steps you need to be able to boost your score up (i went from a 420-590). It has lots of questions to make sure you can apply the methods they give you. By the time you finish this book the verbal section feels so much easier. And yea if you are that type of person slacks off (like me) and can't be bugged to learn all the vocab, IT'S OKAY because the methods in the book are enough to boost your score. The vocab is that little extra push.
THe practice tests at the end of the book mirror the real SAT very well and is good practice for the real SAT*. And all the questions u get wrong are covered by a detailed explanation to why it is wrong and they give you the meanings of the word if its a sentence completion or analogy question.

With just a few days left before my March testing date, I purchased this book and did a few sections, most notably the anologys. My score increased by 70 points with just two 20 minute practice sections which put my verbal score over 700.

Kaplan Verbal Workbook is a book everybody should use in order to do well on verbal. Kaplan provided tons of practice problems, tons of words for me to study, and tons of tips for me to know. Well there is a downside to it becz it doesn't give lot of tricks and tips as other books but you'll be able to find out by yourself. I raised my score by 180 points using this book. I've done 1 set each day and memorized 3 pages of word list each day. I've done this for 2 months and BAM my SAT Score accelerated. Thank you Kaplan. By buying this book, you're buying youself an IVY glory or the college u want to get into.

This book was really valuable to me, and I encourage anyone who needs help on the SAT (don't we all?) to consider it. The practice is broken down into analogies, critical reading, and sentence completion. I'm really good at verbal, but the analogies always killed me. Once I got Kaplan's help and practice, however, my analogy scores shot WAY up. It also helped me with critical reading and sentence completion. I like the way Kaplan breaks it down into 7 or 10 minute drills. It's the best way to learn. The vocab list at the back is also really good. I only memorized about 30 of those words... and just out of that, 5 or 6 showed up on the SAT I took. Crazy!

I can't tell you how wonderful it was to go into the SAT and not feel panicked or stressed. I actually had extra time! The first time, I couldn't even get through the whole SAT. But after using Kaplan, I didn't feel nearly as anxious. I knew the format, understood how to approach the test, and was very familiar with the specific questions. And I'm a good test taker - I already knew all the basics. This book provides specialized strategy, which is incredibly valuable, and makes things easier to understand.

All in all, I went from a 660 to a 760 on verbal. Combined with the math workbook, I raised my SAT score 150 points. I give Kaplan the credit... well, most of it. :) I'm really glad I had these books, and I would reccommend them for basically anyone.

This Kaplan Verbal SAT Workbook really does work. It WILL raise your scores.

After using this book in hopes of being able to tackle the "level 4" and "level 5" questions on the SAT I Verbal section I was not very impressed with the level of difficulty the Kaplan SAT Verbal Workbook provided. Most of the questions in the analogy and sentence completion section are the lower level questions on the SAT I Verbal. It is quite common for the last questions in the SAT I Verbal section to have very difficult vocabulary. However, in the Kaplan's SAT I Verbal Workbook, you will find questions that are labeled by CollegeBoard with a difficulty rating of somewhere around three, sometimes four, and very rarely, five. On the other hand, this book provides a very good set of problems in the Critical Reading Sections. In addition to an accurate model of the actual exam (to some extent), the answer explanations are very clear compared to other prep books. Overall, I would give this a 4 out of 5 because, while it does prepare you well for the SAT I Verbal, if the person using this book was only to use this book, he would discover on the SAT I that the analogies that are level 4 and 5 will be rather difficult for him.

I am aware that there is a vocabulary section in the book, however, a large part of practicing analogies and sentence completion is getting used to using difficult vocabulary words in actual problems

I found this book to be very helpful. It has quality examples, a good amount of them, and great explanations. If you struggled with the verbal portion of the SAT, I would buy this book solely for the explanations.