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The Official SAT Study Guide is the only book that features official SAT practice tests created by the test maker.It's packed with the information students need to get ready for the exam.They'll gain valuable experience by taking eight practice tests and receiving estimated scores.With 900 pages and 21 chapters, the book helps students raise their confidence by reviewing concepts, test-taking approaches, and focused sets of practice questions.

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The College Board is a national nonprofit membership association whose mission is to prepare, inspire, and connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 4,300 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves over three million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning.

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114 of 147 people found the following review helpful:

Great Start to Studying for the SAT, January 27, 2005

By	A.Trendl HungarianBookstore.com "Another Sorr... (Glen Ellyn, IL USA) - See all my reviews

"The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT" by the College Board is where studying starts for the famous high school exam. It is their test, and so it is important to see their prep materials. Stop with that, and you'll sell yourself short. However, if you skip this book, you will miss out on the insiders version.

What Good Is This Book?
The College Board version presents their bias. That's good because they know what is coming up in the next exam.

The practice tests are so important. The College Board gives you eight of them, but try to take more. Again, start with this book, and move onward.

What's missing? The good stuff. More exams. Other voices. The reality is, the playing field for this test is not level. Those taking courses on SAT test taking have an advantage, as do those plowing through Kaplan books, or those published by the Princeton Review. Skip those options, and expect a lower score than you could otherwise have received.

What's really missing? The hardcore strategies. The College Board isn't intending to make the test easy. They want it fair, and to be an exam of true gained knowledge. While this noble desire eventually will be the real indicator of collegiate success, the point of most students for taking it isn't about potential success. It is about money, and/or acceptance to the school of their choice.

Get into that incredible college, and continue the same effort in your courses, and the world is yours. It starts with getting accepted.

Who Needs To Buy a Book?
The SAT is coming up. If you're bright, you'll do well. Doing well isn't good enough. If getting into the local state college is your goal, consider it done. Get something above a 'C' GPA, and something above 1,000 or 1,100 and you meet your goal.

If scholarships, or acceptance at a better school are important to you, then you need to study. Good students study. Great students study a lot. "The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT" is part of that studying.

I fully recommend "The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT" by the College Board.

Anthony Trendl
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57 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

New SAT, But Not All New Questions, October 13, 2004

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

To save yourself some money, don't rush into buying this book. You may not need it. The College Board provides a copy of a complete New SAT test on its web site, which you can download for FREE. This book provides 8 additional tests. However, a fair number of questions are recycled from the guide to the "old" SAT, called 10 Real SATs, which you or an older sibling may already own. Also, this book provides only an answer key for each test, not the explanations. This somewhat limits its usefulness.

48 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

Pair This Book With Barron's!!, May 24, 2005

By	Princess "sharkdiver" (New York) - See all my reviews

I am a verbal SAT tutor for the past 26 years. Here is my formula for success, and it is the reason that people pay me an insane amount of money to work with their kids. Step #1 -- Get the Barron's SAT book first. Do every test. Read the answer explanations carefully. Step #2 -- Get this book. Take the 8 practice tests, sitting straight through for each exam, 4 hours with the break. This book is easier than Barrons, so you should feel an improvement when you take these real tests. Get the book HOT WORDS FOR THE SAT by Linda Carnevale, and learn a few chapters each week. Good luck on the exam!!

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My BEST Books for College Students...
This certainly ranks up there. My other choices for 2007, hands down:

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Published 1 day ago by Dr. Vernon M.

Great Resource
I use this book as a resource when teaching a Preparation for the SAT and ACT course with great results.

Published 2 days ago by Nancy Penry

Essential for SAT
Everyone who is preparing for SAT or PSAT needs this book. It includes 8 test that are as close to the real SATs as possible since they are prepared by the same people. Read more

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The Official SAT study Guide
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Best investment for your high schooler
I recommend this book to all parents who have children entering college and are required to take the SAT. This book is High Schools top recommendation.

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It has more than you need
OK, This is 889 pages of material. There are 8 practice tests in the book and it takes about 5 hours per test. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Lynn E. Pieterse

Wrong old version!
The book is too old!
I expected to get 2008 version.
Very dissapoint.

Published 2 months ago by Alexey Gavrilov

Best SAT study available
This book is the only source for real test questions. There are several knock offs but this is the one and only real deal. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Steve Leake

great book
On the first SAT I took, I got a 620 on critical reading, 650 on math, and a 570 on writing. I then bought this book and really got serious and organized doing a little of it at... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Patricia Pannullo

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