Cracking the NEW SAT, 2006 (College Test Prep) (Paperback)

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Our NEW SAT guides are thoroughly revised and updated to address the three equally-weighted test scores: Math (including ten percent higher-level questions), Critical Reading (with greater emphasis on reading comprehension and grammar), and Writing (the new essay). As America's premier test-prep company, The Princeton Review has done the research necessary to help high school students succeed in the increasingly competitive college admissions game.

·Practice with three full-length tests in the book.
·Master the material tested on the NEW SAT, including grammar, Algebra II, and the new essay.
·Learn techniques to boost scores on the brand-new writing section.
·Analyze test performance online with free personalized score reports and optional essay grading.

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Review (July 12, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375764852
• ISBN-13: 978-0375764851
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #519,611 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent practice , October 4, 2005

By	Great Faulkner's Ghost (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Princeton Review challenges the ETS (the test's creator) party line on prepping and coaching. By studying patterns in the ETS answer choices and question sequences, Princeton Review came up with what it calls the Joe Blog approach. At its core, Joe Blog says that on easy questions, go for the obvious answer that Joe Blog (a hypothetical Joe-Average) would guess; on the hard ones, avoid the "obvious answers, because they are "tricks" to fool Joe Blog. Even for top scorers, the Joe Blog techniques could add points by increasing the odds of successfully making educated guesses on the toughest questions. Moreover, the Princeton Review writers do provide excellent practice beyond the Joe Blog approach. They seem to have studied the content of the test better than most authors. If there is one flaw, it is that the explanations to the practice questions need a lot of work.

While not perfectfor everyone, this book is still an important and helpful resource. I do recommend this book overall.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sorry i don't like to crack my SAT's, i like to ACE them., September 4, 2006

By	Adil "Math wiz" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews

Cracking the NEW SAT, 2006 edition written by the princeton review, is an excellent standard approach to the SAT. The stratagies included in this book are promised to raise your score. But this book lacks review, especially on the math section. another positive part of this book is it's practice exams, which are very similar to the real SAT's. the reason i don't reccommend this book is because of it's practice questions. you recieve great stratagies but not enough practice questions to reinforce the skills you learned so you just sit there dum founded. no explanations are provided for the practice drills, so you don't know what your doing wrong and where you're going wrong with the skills you've just learned. Instead of using this book for the SAt it would be better advisable to ust it for the PSAT. if you are really serious about acing the SAT's and want to invest some money in to it. I would reccommend buying McGraw-Hill's SAT I 2nd edition. this book provides great stratagies and practice to reinforce the skills and provides excellent practice test. another book you might want to consider buying is Gruber's New SAt this book provides tough questions but it put's you in the right state of mind for the SAT. after you are done with these two books. you might consider buying Barron's SAT 2400 because after your done with the standard approach with these books. Barron's 2400 will put you up to the test. This is what happened after i used these books. my current score: 600 critical reading, 720 math, and 550 writing. for a total of 1870. but after using these book i recived 670 critical reading 800 math, and 690 writing for a total of 2160, trust me these are all the books you need trust me! good luck!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid prep book but practice tests could have been better, April 17, 2006

By	hummer - See all my reviews

Overall this book provides very good strategies for people who would rather study themselves than take a course. Joe Blog is an asset, and understanding him really helped me to root out wrong answers to alot of questions. However, the practice tests contained a few flaws and I felt some of the questions were unlike those on the actual SAT. Definetly a solid prep book, but consider the collegeboard one for better tests (although this book does provide explanations to all its questions unlike the collegeboard book).