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Math Workout for the New SAT (College Test Prep) | 
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ISBN: 037576433X
Dewey Decimal Number: 513.1076
EAN: 9780375764332
Publication Date: October 12, 2004
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Product Description
The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Math section is very different from getting straight A’s in geometry and algebra. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about math–only the techniques and information you’ll need to score higher on the Math section of the SAT. In Math Workout for the SAT, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers and
-Eliminate answer choices that look correct but are designed to confuse you
-Tackle important material, including Algebra II problems and more challenging math concepts
-Improve your Math score with the most effective test-taking techniques, including Plugging In and Order of Difficulty
This book includes more than 50 quizzes and problem sets to sharpen your test-taking skills. All of our simulated test questions are like those you’ll see on the actual SAT. To help you improve your score even further, we fully explain every solution.
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 Very Useful Supplemental Material October 4, 2007
A. Marks (Los Angeles, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been an SAT tutor on and off for almost 2 decades, and I find this book extremely useful. It's one of the only books out there with math drills that are written like real SAT questions, and that are organized into distinct categories (fundamentals, averages, geometry etc.), so that students can focus their efforts.
The Princeton Review's main SAT prep book organizes its teaching section well, but for students who then want to practice, say a dozen percent problems so they can really internalize and grasp the concept, they're out of luck. The only practice materials in that book are in the form of diagnostic tests which, rightly, mix up all question types. This is a useful supplement.
Many reviewers have complained of errors and typos, and if I remember correctly there may be one or two mistakes still in the book, but I'm pretty sure most have been fixed in subsequent printings.
Finally, the difference between the drills here and in a more typical math textbook are crucial, as these problems are constructed like actual SAT questions, not like problems from math class... and there's a huge difference.
My only criticism of the book: not enough problems. I wish it had twice the volume of material. Would prefer to give it 4 stars for that reason, but am trying to boost the, to me, unfair average.
 Useful and to the point for the SAT math part April 8, 2008
cupiemayo (Santa Barbara, California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am not sure why the book gets bad reputations from previous reviewers. Maybe the newest printing that I own did smooth out all the editing kinks that were mentioned in those bad reviews. I have gone through about half of all the problems myself and probably found only a couple potential mistakes in them (though my reading has been cursory I must admit).
To make it short, if you want to take practice exams and get the feel for what kind of questions you may encounter in the "real" exam, there is absolutely no substitute for working with the copies of real exams or using the prep book published by whoever makes the real exam (i.e., ETS). I high recommend that approach.
However, I strongly think that Princeton Review delivers here in developing effective test-taking strategies and techniques. While I was in need of taking SAT, I did superbly on the math part without knowing these things, since I had a strong math background already. Now I am tutoring and reviewing these weird trick questions for which ETS is known for, I must say that the techniques work even for the students without strong mathematical foundations, and probably save a lot of time without doing full algebra.
On the book, I feel the harder problems tend to be a little more difficult than what the real SAT would ever have. There are also quite a few problems that are a bit obscure, perhaps due to Princeton Review's attempt to imitate the funky ability of ETS to make up weird questions, which test whatever ETS thinks is the "scholastic aptitude."
 Needs work, but not THAT awful September 14, 2006
noogie (Maryland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm teaching SAT math, and am finding these quick quizzes and problem sets helpful as warmups.
I just had to put this for the record:
While there are a number of errors, the situation isn't as dire as previous reviewers have painted it. Some of these are typographical errors which can be corrected easily from the context. The errors do not seem much more frequent than the errors present in the answer key in the appendix of your average high school math textbook (sad to say).
The laundry list of errors compiled by an earlier reviewer has some errors itself. A sampling: The reviewer has confused "subtract" with "subtracted from". (Page 18, Page 149 #5) Page 133 #8 is actually correct. (You can check this by using FOIL.)
 If I could give this book negative stars, I would. November 5, 2005
Anybody Else (Bethesda, MD USA)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
I bought this book based on the Princeton Review's reputation for being a leading name in the SAT preparation business. Having taken most of the math classes required for the SAT in middle school, I figured this book would provide a nice quick refresher to help jog my memory about all those mundane algebra and geometry rules. What I found, however was so disappointing that I am planning on writing a letter to the editor to voice my discontent.
It would appear that the folks who wrote this book did not have a very good editorial team. Problems I had with the text ran the gamut from grammatical blunders and misplaced decimals to unbalanced equations and gross typographical errors. In one example illustrating a method for determining which of two fractions is larger, the fractions given were (I swear) 5/7 and $/!!. Either there is some radical new math movement going on out there or this book's editors were completely incompetent.
Due to these highly irritating fallacies, I stopped reading the book about halfway through, so I'm sure there were more errors that I just didn't get to. Personally, I find it a bit insulting that the Princeton Review staff didn't care enough to fix obvious mistakes. Perhaps I'm being too harsh on them, but things like matching question numbers to answer numbers really should not be that difficult. Hopefully, they will re-edit this book before future publications hit the market, although I for one will never be buying another product from the Princeton Review.
This book is horrible! July 19, 2006
H. Zoch III
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I saw this book in the store and thought I'd give it a shot. When I started working through it I began to notice blatant errors on nearly every page. At first I thought maybe I was losing my mind, or just a little tired and foggy-minded. But then I looked on Amazon to see if anyone gave it any reviews and I found that I was not the only one to notice these errors.
I didn't think it was the responsibility of the reviewee to proof read and edit the material of the reviewer. This is despicable.
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