SAT Prep Black Book: The Most Effective SAT Strategies Ever Published

SAT Prep Black Book: The Most Effective SAT Strategies Ever Published by Mike Barrett (Author), Patrick Barrett (Author)

Selected Highlights from the SAT Prep Black Book:

• Why the SAT isn’t designed like a high school test, and how this fact influences every aspect of the proper approach to SAT preparation…
• Why every SAT question can only have one valid answer, no matter how much it might seem otherwise sometimes…
• How to look at SAT questions the same way the College Board does when it writes them…
• Why it’s so important to work with real SAT questions from the College Board…and why you shouldn’t pay much attention to the College Board’s written explanations for those questions!
• What you’re actually supposed to do when the SAT asks you about an author’s attitude…
• Why you shouldn’t put your faith in diagnostic tests, even if they come from the College Board…
• The important implications of viewing time as an investment on test day…
• The simple formula that allows you to crank out a top-scoring essay (that is, if you even need to do the SAT Essay in the first place)…
• The special grammatical rules that are followed by the SAT Writing and Language section…and how they sometimes differ from common usage in school…
• The unwritten rules for every kind of SAT question…
• The many ways to approach an SAT Math question, and which ones are likely to work best for you…
• Why the “order of difficulty” doesn’t really exist…
• Why every real SAT question can potentially be answered in under 30 seconds…
• And much more than we can fit in this space…