Sat 1600

By Kaplan Inc. and Kaplan Test Prep

Book Overview

Students aiming for the top score--and admission to a top college--will want this handbook--Kaplan's answer to the SAT's toughest questions. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743225996
• ISBN13: 9780743244398
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Kaplan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.7" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Good Challenge for those who have read normal prep books.

I took a Kaplan course which did not help me a huge amount and I was just bridging 1400 (my goal) because I was getting 1370-1390 on the practice tests. While I wouldn't advocate the strategies listed here, they're worth reading for alternative approaches. The much more challenging problems (compared to standard prep books) were very helpful though. According to the 10 Real SATs practice book my scores raised an average of about 40 points a test which was completely worth the price to me. Just my $0.02.I'd recommend it for those who have already done other forms of preparation and who are already getting 1250's or above on practice tests.

Great Book Great for verbal

This book was very good I read through it the day before the sat's and I got a 1430. However this book should not be used alone. It is best to supplement it with 10 real sat's. Go through a few tests and read this book. This book was extremely helpfull with analogies and critical reading. It helps you see the tricks that are in the sat's. Even if you dont know words, this book will help you easily and corectly recognize speciously correct answers as wrong

Extremely helpful for those tired of

This book only focuses on the worst of the worst, meaning that no time is spent reviewing elementary algebra or ...guessing strategies like in other books. I found it extremely helpful, as it reviewed most of the common slipfalls for high test-takers and strategies for avoiding them, and also contained a slew of pratice questions at the end of each chapter. Definitely not for the faint of heart, but if you can ace this stuff, you'll be pleasantly surprised on test day. Works best with 10 Real SATs.Addition: I just got back my June, 2003 SAT score. It increased 90 points from 1510 to 1600.

Excellent book!

This book was great. Basicly, there is a profusion of SAT prep boks out there - Barron's, Kaplan,Princeton Review,etc....this book is the perfect amalgam of the important concepts. It says that it has the harder questions, and by comparison, it truly does. Along with 10 real SATs, this book will give you more practice and great shortcuts in order for you to improve your score. There are so many prep books out there, but this one stands out. Great book with the original, amazing Kaplan approach.

Get a High Score

I am Italian and English is not my first language. However I have to take the SAT to get into college.At first I was really scared, especially for the verbal part of the SAT.I rushed into buying all the test prep material that I found, namely Kaplan's Higher score on the SAT, and the Princeton Review's Inside the SAT and ACT Deluxe. They are both softwares.Additionally I bought 10 Real SATs, the official prep from the Collegeboard. I learned all the strategies on the CDs, and tried some test from 10 Real SATs. I began with a 1,180, then I got a 1,260, then a 1,480. This was merit of the CDs, of getting more confident, of the strategies, and of practicing on the real tests of 10 Real SATs. At this point, after you know how you'd score without techniques, how you are going to score with the techniques, it's time to get some extra prep. I think that in two weeks one can master all the stuff on all the common test prep material. After this you understand that this books or CDs are prapared to get you confident about your potentialities, and teach you some basic and obvious techniques. At this point I think that SAT 1600 is the ideal book to continue you preparation. It's imporant because it takes the techniques you already leart to the next step. In all the normal test prep materials, techniques seems prepared for the average test takers, and sometimes are not fully explained because the writers fears that the reader cannot understand the technique. This is a big downside to it because learning a technique by heart ubstead that understanding it can lead to costly mistaked during the test. On the other hand SAT 1600 is a great book because it explains all the techniques you already know a step further. I particularly apreciated that each question is really explained step by step, and the logic behind works, they don't just tell you "because it cannot be anyway else", and you don't understand how to improve yourself. They also tell you what you should think "In your brain". This approach is essential to develop yourself and be able to tackle any question with confidence. I suggest this book not only to advanced test takers, but to everybody. It's a review of all the techniques you already learnt, plus if you can understand difficult questions, magically you will find that easy ones are a piece of cake. One big problem on 10 Real SATs is that the answers of the 10 tests are not explained. This means that while there is no better source that real test, you need to have some questions explained, and in SAT 1600 I found the best explanations of question. They tell you "Why is this question hard?" and which is the strategy to a question like that. In the meantime practice with 10 Real SATs. First take 1 test without time restrictions, and see how you do. This is you mental potential if there were no time constraints. After try to take two or three test in timed conditions, but first take all the Verbal sections, and then the Math ones, or vice