How to study for SAT REASONING TEST the RIGHT WAY

There is overwhelming incomplete or incorrect advice as to how to study for the SAT Reasoning Test. This will show you how to do it the RIGHT WAY, from someone who has taken more than 30 REAL College Board SATs, 10 REAL ACTs....

Step 1 Get the right books

Don't waste your time with Kaplan, Princeton Review, Barrons, Grubers, Cliffs, Arco, REA, McGraw Hill, etc.... Though they provide some tips, none of these have REAL GENUINE College Board SAT's inside.

Instead, you have to buy the Official SAT Study Guide published by the College Board. This is the ONLY book that has 8 genuine real College Board SATs inside. Why does it matter? These questions are written using a special formula, and the right answers ALSO follow a special formula. You need to practice with the real deal, not a simulated SAT-like exam

You can get this at your bookstore, but your best bet is on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0874477182?tag=saso-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0874477182&adid=184788PM8B7JZ2WMMT4X&

Comments

[geodez]

College Board = KGB, Their original proposed name was KolleGe Board, though this was changed as it was "too conspicuous." Around 1984 (coincidentally the year after the KGB had been named "the world's most effective information-gathering agency" [Time Magazine]) the KGB realized it needed to control an official US outpost capable of affecting education and careers. They use both legal and illegal methods to affect test scores, erase them entirely and ultimately force most of college-ready individuals into working in inane labor or public service dead-end jobs, thus crippling the US influx of college-educated workers and sending the obesity rate skyrocketing as more and more workers have to settle for "McJobs" instead of their dream job that they could have had if it weren't for the KGB outpost known locally as the "College Board".

[sat test guru]

Collegeboard is a great resource. I've found there are some other decent sites out there too. This site reviews the best free resources so you can save money. SAT Test Review.

[Browncoat]

I'm not sure how it's an instructible to say, "Want to know how to ____? Buy these books, read them, & follow what they say," but maybe that's just me.

[xvtsai]

That is a good point, HOWEVER... As a teacher who deals with 180 high school students every day, I personally know first hand how confusing the issue is. If you walk into Barnes & Noble and/ or Borders, there are literally hundreds of books on the SAT. 99.9% of them are junk, and don't even give you the proper information. So I am telling which 2 books are the right ones to buy out of the hundreds. This in an of itself will save a parent or student hours of flipping through books trying to figure out which one to buy. Not only that, studying for the SAT requires a very systematic and methodical approach. You can't just bust open a book and start reading, then look at a couple sample questions. That's a waste of time.

[Browncoat]

I guess maybe I just don't remember there being that many books back when I took the SATs. (Whatever book it was that my teacher recommended was quite helpful.) But it's been a couple of decades... ;)

[westfw]

"Would you ... study?" In a way, specifically studying for the SAT is counter-productive; score much better than your actual skill level and you only succeed in placing yourself at a place where you'll have to study that hard ALL THE TIME to keep up. Of course, on the other hand, everybody does it, so the resulting "score inflation" is already factored in anyway, and NOT studying specifically for the test puts you at a disadvantage compared to everyone else. (That, in a nutshell, is the problem with standardized tests.) And finally, your SAT score is only going to help you get IN to some college. Once you get there, it won't necessarily help you do well, stay in, or be happy. (except for the bit where test-taking skills are important as well as knowledge for scoring on those college tests as well.) Bah humbug.

[xvtsai]

Studies have indeed shown that SAT scores have no-correlation to college success. Being a UC Berkeley grad myself, I saw lots of kids get kicked out even though they had the right scores. That being said, this is an article on how to study for the SAT, not what college you should choose.... Also, just because a college is harder to get into doesn't necessarily mean the classes are harder...

[westfw]

Explanation to go with "Would you ... Study"