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 - Vague ExplanationsThis book contains very good practice material but the explanations to the answer choices are very vague and difficult to understand. Rating:  - Buy this book!I would definately recommend that you buy this book. The practice that it gave me was extremely helpful, as well as the "SAT Math in a Nutshell" section. The format was easy to follow and true to the SAT, giving me plenty of practice, and help where I needed it. It improved my math SAT score 50 points - from 630 to 680. And I only did about half of the book! Imagine if I had worked through the whole thing. It's not hard, however - the book is designed so that you only tackle one (approximately) 30-minute section at a time. Just remember - for best results, make sure that you start using this book 3 weeks to a month ahead of time. The verbal workbook helped me even more, raising my score 100 points, from 660 to 760. Kaplan's math workbook is definately worthwhile. It WILL improve your scores! Rating:  - Good PracticeIf you are familiar with the SAT's already, I guess it would work well with you. It provides alot of drill practices, and I believe that after completing the book it does work. I did pretty well on the math section. Rating: - Practice Makes Perfect!After using Barrons Math Workbook to learn all the math concepts, I've used this book to practice as many SAT I level problems as much as possible. I've scored 780 on my test. I've done 1 set a day for a month and few days. There are 28 days. After solving all the sets in the book, SAT I Math was just a breeze. Rating: - A true review of this BookIn general, this book satisfies its purpose as being a math workbook, not lesson book, which provides a large number of SAT-like math questions, partitioned into categories. The book does not teach concepts like the Barron's book, but through doing the questions and reading the explanations you can extract the concepts and the train of thought. The only part where the book is slightly flawed is that some of its questions, towards the end of a question set, titled "hard," really require more thinking than is required on the real exam. However, this can only help your practice, but do not be discouraged if you can only solve some of those! In association with Amazon.com | |