Click the link above to see the fully up-to-date second edition of the SAT Prep Black Book for advice on the current version of the SAT, along with over 600 detailed walkthroughs of real SAT questions from the College Board! Click the "look inside" feature above to browse the Black Book and get a feel for how it approaches the SAT! The "SAT Prep Black Book" gives you unique, effective SAT strategies from Mike Barrett, an SAT tutor with clients all over the globe who pay him hundreds of dollars an hour for phone tutoring. The Black Book is a must-have, whether you need to <ul>
<li>make a perfect 2400 to be competitive at an Ivy,</li> <li>score a 450 in each section to claim a sports scholarship,</li> <li>or anything in between.</li> </ul>
The Black Book works best when used with the authentic SAT questions in the "Blue Book," which is the College Board's Official SAT Study Guide. The Black Book shows you how to beat the SAT, while the Blue Book gives you real SAT questions to practice with. (The SAT Prep Black Book has no affiliation with the College Board.) The Black Book and the Blue Book are all you need to get your best possible SAT score. The Black Book is the ideal SAT book for 3 major reasons: <ol>
<li>It actually works, making it unique in the SAT prep field. There are no lists of "SAT vocab" to memorize or anything like that. Instead, you'll exploit design flaws in the SAT, using its own "SAT tricks" against it.</li> <li>The Black Book contains 250+ solutions for real SAT questions from the Blue Book, so you know it actually works. (You'll need the 2nd edition of the Blue Book to use these solutions.)</li> <li>The Black Book is a clear, concise roadmap to the SAT. (See the table of contents below). It explains exactly how every SAT question works, and how to beat it in the least time possible.</li> </ol>
Click the "look inside" feature above to browse the Black Book and get a feel for how it approaches the SAT! SAT Book Table Of Contents (Selected) Be sure to check the "look inside" feature above. Here's a selection from the table of contents: <ul>
<li>F.A.Q.?</li> <li>Setting (the right) goals</li> <li>How to train for the SAT: mastering the ideas in this book</li> <li>Only work with SAT questions from the College Board!</li> <li>A word on SAT guessing: Don't</li> <li>How to avoid "careless errors"</li> <li>Where to find "missing points"</li> <li>Time management</li> <li>The SAT's big secret</li> <li>SAT Passage-Based Reading</li> <li>The big secret of SAT Reading</li> <li> . . .</li> <li>SAT Sentence Completion</li> <li>5 reasons memorizing vocabulary isn't the best idea</li> <li>What if we don't know enough words?</li> <li> . . . </li> <li>SAT Math</li> <li>The big secret of SAT Math</li> <li>The 2 critical components of SAT Math success</li> <li> . . . </li> <li>The SAT Essay</li> <li> . . . </li> <li>SAT Writing multiple-choice</li> <li>How to improve on the Writing section</li> <li> . . . </li> <li>Being an SAT machine</li> <li>8 things you thought you knew about the SAT are wrong</li> <li>The nature of elite scores</li> <li>Advice for non-native English speakers</li> <li>A final piece of advice</li> </ul>
Click the "look inside" feature above to browse the Black Book and get a feel for how it approaches the SAT!

The SAT Prep Black Book: The Most Effective SAT Strategies Ever Published

Test Preparation

Barrett, Mike

College & High School

Lightning Source Inc

Click the "look inside" feature above to browse the SAT Black Book and get a feel for how it approaches the SAT!Current SAT Prep for 2020, 2021, and beyondThe fully up-to-date SAT Prep Black Book, Second Edition gives you unique, effective SAT strategies from Mike Barrett, an SAT tutor with clients all over the globe who pay him hundreds of dollars an hour for phone tutoring. In addition to extensive and effective training on every aspect of the SAT, the SAT Black Book gives you detailed, systematic, easy-to-follow walkthroughs for every question in 4 of the College Board's official SAT Practice Tests. The Black Book is a must-have in your SAT preparation, whether you want to
<ul>
<li>make a perfect 1600 to apply to an Ivy,</li>
<li>score a 450 in each section to claim a sports scholarship,</li>
<li>or anything in between.</li>
</ul>
You can find the first 4 Practice SAT tests from the College Board for free on the College Board’s website, or in the "Blue Book," which is the College Board's Official SAT Study Guide, 2016 Edition or 2018 Edition---both editions contain the first 4 official SAT practice tests. (The SAT Prep Black Book has no affiliation with the College Board.) The Black Book and the real practice SAT tests from the College Board are all you need to get your best possible SAT score. The Black Book is the ideal SAT book for 3 major reasons:
<ol>
<li>It covers every aspect of the test with advice that actually works, making it unique in the SAT prep field. It doesn't just review material from your high school classes! Instead, you'll learn to exploit design flaws in the SAT, using its own "SAT tricks" against it.</li>
<li>The Black Book contains 600+ detailed, systematic, easy-to-follow walkthroughs for real SAT questions from the College Board, so you know that what you're learning actually works. You'll see every question from the first 4 official SAT Practice Tests attacked in a way that clearly demonstrates the ideal thought process on the SAT. (You'll need your own copies of those real SAT practice tests, which you can get for free from the College Board’s website. You can also find them in the College Board’s 2016 or 2018 “Blue Book.”)</li>
<li>The Black Book is a clear, concise roadmap to the SAT. (See the selected highlights below). It explains exactly how every SAT question works, and how to beat it in the least time possible.</li>
</ol>Selected Highlights from the SAT Prep Black Book:<ul>
<li>Why the SAT isn’t designed like a high school test, and how this fact influences every aspect of the proper approach to SAT preparation…</li>
<li>Why every SAT question can only have one valid answer, no matter how much it might seem otherwise sometimes…</li>
<li>How to look at SAT questions the same way the College Board does when it writes them…</li>
<li>Why it’s so important to work with real SAT questions from the College Board…and why you shouldn’t pay much attention to the College Board’s written explanations for those questions!</li>
<li>What you’re actually supposed to do when the SAT asks you about an author’s attitude…</li>
<li>Why you shouldn’t put your faith in diagnostic tests, even if they come from the College Board…</li>
<li>The important implications of viewing time as an investment on test day…</li>
<li>The simple formula that allows you to crank out a top-scoring essay (that is, if you even need to do the SAT Essay in the first place)…</li>
<li>The special grammatical rules that are followed by the SAT Writing and Language section…and how they sometimes differ from common usage in school…</li>
<li>The unwritten rules for every kind of SAT question…</li>
<li>The many ways to approach an SAT Math question, and which ones are likely to work best for you…</li>
<li>Why the “order of difficulty” doesn’t really exist…</li>
<li>Why every real SAT question can potentially be answered in under 30 seconds…</li>
<li>And much more than we can fit in this space…</li>
</ul>

SAT Prep Black Book: The Most Effective SAT Strategies Ever Published

Barrett, Patrick

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