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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 378.1662 EAN: 9780764136320 Edition: 3 ISBN: 0764136321 Label: Barron's Educational Series Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: July 01, 2007 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Studio: Barron's Educational Series Features:
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 Rating:  - Great Verbal Workout---for the SAT and BEYONDI am a career coach who helps young people optimally position themselves to college, grad school and employers. I am also a parent who was very proactive about seeking out and purchasing SAT books which would give my son the tools to improve his standardized test scores. Linda Carnevale's book was a powerful vocabulary-building tool for my son. Its unqiue strength is its categorization of words in related-meaning clusters, so a student can learn a number of words that have similar meanings, ... Read More Rating: - HOT WORDS for the SATThis book was awesome. I am able to remember 1 lessons per 2 days by using this book. I love cluster and the key to memorize the words. Rating: - Clustering is effectiveI am taking the SAT in a week. This book uses a technique called clustering, where vocabulary words with similar meanings are grouped and studied together. It's been very helpful, as it also comes with mini self-tests and reviews. Rating:  - Not sure if it's worth it.Let's face it, chances are, we are not going to see any of these words in the SAT tests. Nevertheless, it's always good to know a few big words. This book certainly makes it easy to memorize vocabs. But if you just want to improve your SAT scores, it may not help you at all. Rating: - Great concept, useful toolI am a mom with a 10 year old who is begging to study SAT words. (Don't ask why...she just really wants to learn them) I saw this book being used by the 10th graders at the local private school and I was very impressed. The organization of words into groups with similar meanings is fabulous. It really helps you to talk about those "shades of meaning" that you get with different word choices. Of course, these are not the most difficult of the SAT words, but I think it is perfect for the average to above ... Read More 
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