This has got to be the worst SAT prep book I have gone through. The practice tests are riddled with mistakes. Even the online test has mistakes (i.g. Explanation makes sense for the choice that is not the correct one). The strategies are also misleading. If you believe you will ace the SAT with these srategies, you are sadly mistakened. If you follow this book, you will wind up guessing the entire exam. If you are serious about the SAT, avoid this book.

I had gone through at least three books when preparing for the new SAT. But the kind of tricks and elimination strategies found in this book cannot be found in any other book. The Collegeboard book is good for some practice but this is the book for preparing for it.

The Princeton Review prep-book of the New SAT is not worth it! It begins with "the average highschool student, Joe Bloggs." Not only did the book keep refering to Joe, it makes the student reading the book and studying feel like an idiot.

The strategies the book employs are flawed and do not work. They go over every single detail and step, and it got to be really boring. The book spent most of its time explaining the small details, which got super boring really quick. I do not recommend this book, unless one naturally does not test high on the SAT test, then the explaining of every detain might be nice.

If one wants a really good and excellent SAT prep book, check out the Rocket Review by Adam Robinson, which I would say is the best book to prepare for the new-SAT!

I opened this book up, expecting to find decent strategies that would enable me to crack the new sat. What i got was second-rate and unsubstantiated strategies that the authors of this book so confidently put out with no justification. For example, the book teaches us how to do "topic searches." To do this, you read the blurb, first few sentences of the first paragraph, first sentence of the remaining paragraphs, and the last sentence. Merely this plus referring back to the passage is supposed to let the test taker answer all of the questions asked. If you haven't noticed already, this is the dumbest strategy to ever use for a critical reading section and i believe that those who are faithful to this book would be misled. Much of the book is devoted to "educated guessing" and how an answer can be correctly chosen through signs given by the testmakers, even the math questions. An inane example of this was when i read about how "simple" words are usually correct in the easy portion of the sentence completions while "hard" words are usually correct in the more difficult section of the test. What about the strategy this strategy: "If you're completely clueless, skip it. Hard questions are worth the same amount of points as the easy ones."? The book even uses "Joe Blogg", an imaginary character, devoted to teaching its readers to guess. Yet, the educated guessing strategies only work on the problems that were formed by the author of this book, and is very likely to fail in the real SAT.

My recommendation is to, if you are to buy this book, question every strategy it teaches, but get the most out of the practice tests and verbal/math lessons given in this book. I believe that if i were to blindly follow this book, i would receive retrograde scores.

Princeton Review challenges the ETS party line on prepping and coaching. By studying patterns in the ETS answer choices and question sequences, Princeton Review came up with what it calls the Joe Blog approach. At its core, Joe Blog says that on easy questions, go for the obvious answer that Joe Blog (a hypothetical Joe-Average) would guess; on the hard ones, avoid the "obvious answers, because they are "tricks" to fool Joe Blog.

If you have a shot at 1350 or above this may not be the ideal approach. But for most other people, it could add some hard-fought points. Even for top scorers, the Joe Blog techniques could add points by increasing the odds of successfully making educated guesses on the toughest questions. Moreover, the Princeton Review writers do provide excellent practice beyond the Joe Blog approach. They seem to have studied the content of the test better than most authors, particularly Barrons. If there is one flaw, it is that the explanations to the practice questions need a lot of work.

While not perfectfor everyone, this book is still an important and helpful resource. I do recommend this book overall.