I just bought this book to review the math section, as its my weak spot on the SATs. The book is good in terms of giving you lots of practice problems, but does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to teach me the math! It is a good companion for a textbook, or something of the sort, but it will not be sufficient to be used solely as a math review book.

I bought the book expecting to be taught math. Its explanations are very brief and convoluting, and overall, its a poorly written and designed book. Skip over it, and look elsewhere.

Going through the book before recommending its use by my students, I found two serious errors in the first 25 pages (out of 290). In a math workbook, this makes the book unusable until I check every question and answer! The students must be able to rely on valid questions and correct answers.

p.13, bottom: in the example for 'number picking', answers (D),(E) are identical (and correct).

p.25, problem 5: no answer is correct for the problem as written (1.04*sqrt(0.079)). In the "Answer and Explanation" (p.27), it references a division problem.

I want to use the book, but I will have to introduce it much slower than I had hoped!

I just received Kaplan New SAT Math Workbook and have been studying with it. It does have a lot of good practice and explanations. However, this book was published even before the New SAT came out, which leaves me a bit skeptical because they don't know FOR SURE what problems or what type of problems will actually show up. It seems like they're going on what everybody already knows -- the College Board added Algebra II. There's also some spelling errors and typos. If you're looking for some practice, see this book. But I'd feel more comfortable in trusting a book to know what to tell me to study after the New SAT has actually been unleashed.

We had a snow day the other day, and I sat down and worked my way through the entire book. It helped my so much! I received a 650 on my Math PSATs last fall, and by the end of the day I managed to get 800s on both of the practice tests in the book. This is a book you have to have if you're going to take the SATs. I'd recommend getting Collegeboards "The Official SAT Study Guide" also though.

i used this book (previous edition) to get my score up.



The pluses are...



1) Many practice problems, and good tests

2) Good explanations

3) Focus on key concepts



It is worth your time to practice.



It worked (also I didn't didn't leave any blank)!!!

I still have it in my shelf now that I am a senior in college ; I don't use it now, but it brings back fond memories :)



The best thing is to sleep early the night b4 the test.