SAT 2005 Books

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SAT 2005 Books

SAT Practice: The New Verbal Section presents easy-to-read-and-understand stories packed with vocabulary. Uses a side-by-side glossary -- unlike those requiring constant looking-up. Also provides extensive glossary with word variants, comprehension quizzes, grammar notes, and, believe it or not, it's fun! (Check out the sample chapter and the index in particular).

The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT Finally out: this is the official guide from the developers of the SAT itself.

Kaplan New SAT 2005 with CD-ROM

A note on Kaplan and Princeton Review SAT books by a former Kaplan manager and director: "I've tried out most of the SAT books in my educational consulting business. I also was a teacher, manager and director at Kaplan for 10 years. I find that the Kaplan and Princeton Review retail books are relatively incomplete. They basically want to give you a taste and get you to take their course." (See full context of quote.)

The RocketReview Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT
Book and CD.
Program actually attempts to grade student essays using AI natural language processing techniques. Hard to know how well it works, but for it to work well, the official College Board essay evaluation process would have to be egregiously mechanical and formulaic with little regard for creative insight. This may well be the case. We would very much like to hear the opinions of students who have used this package (contact us).