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

by Mike Barrett

This edition has not yet been updated for the 2016 SAT—a new edition is coming soon!"SAT The Black Book & The Blue Book Are All You Need"No SAT vocabulary lists | No annotating | No math drills | Just an SAT book that actually worksThe "SAT Prep Black Book" gives you unique, effective SAT strategies from Mike Barrett, a SAT tutor with clients all over the globe who pay him hundreds of dollars an hour for phone tutoring. The Black Book is a must-have, whether you need tomake a perfect 2400 to be competitive at an Ivy,score a 450 in each section to claim a sports scholarship,or anything in between.The Black Book works best when used with the authentic SAT questions in the “Blue Book,” which is the College Board’s Official SAT Study Guide. The Black Book shows you how to beat the SAT, while the Blue Book gives you real SAT questions to practice with. (The SAT Prep Black Book has no affiliation with the College Board.)The Black Book and the Blue Book are all you need to get your best possible SAT score.The Black Book is the ideal SAT book for 3 major actually works, making it unique in the SAT prep field. There are no lists of “SAT vocab” to memorize or anything like that. Instead, you'll exploit design flaws in the SAT, using its own “SAT tricks" against it.The Black Book contains 250+ solutions for real SAT questions from the Blue Book, so you know it actually works. (You'll need the 2nd edition of the Blue Book to use these solutions.) The Black Book is a clear, concise roadmap to the SAT. (See the table of contents below). It explains exactly how every SAT question works, and how to beat it in the least time possible. SAT Book Table Of Contents (Selected)Be sure to check the “look inside” feature or the free Kindle preview. Here’s a selection from the table of (the right) goalsHow to train for the SAT—mastering the ideas in this bookOnly work with SAT questions from the College Board!A word on SAT Don’tHow to avoid “careless errors”Where to find “missing points”Time managementThe SAT’s big secretSAT Passage-Based ReadingThe big secret of SAT Reading…SAT Sentence Completion5 reasons memorizing vocabulary isn’t the best ideaWhat if we don’t know enough words?…SAT MathThe big secret of SAT MathThe 2 critical components of SAT Math success…The SAT Essay…SAT Writing multiple-choiceHow to improve on the Writing section…Being an SAT machine8 things you thought you knew about the SAT are wrongThe nature of elite scores&l

330 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 10, 2013

Reviews

[Shauna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very practical

No nonsense, pragmatic advice that addresses what is usually hindering students from getting higher scores - themselves. He's especially good at demystifying vocabulary.