Kaplan SAT Math Workbook, 4th Edition

Maximize Your SAT Math Score

Targeted Review

Kaplan's SAT Math Workbook: Fourth Edition focuses your preparation on exactly the key concepts you need to know. This targeted review helps you maximize your study time and builds the skills you need to score higher.

Realistic Practice

Each chapter in this book comes with in-depth practice sets with complete explanations for every answer. In addition, you can test your skills on 2 practice math exams. Question after question, practice set after practice set, you will build the skills and confidence you need.

Tips & Tools

In SAT Math Workbook, you receive helpful techniques and strategies for conquering the toughest math questions on the SAT. In addition, you can get a bird's eye view of the test with Kaplan's exclusive Top 100 SAT Math Concepts.

In my sophomore year, I had gotten a 640, which was disappointing, but after using this book for two short weeks my score shot up to a 720 (as a Junior)! I would recommend this book to anybody wishing to increase their score with a concise, concentrated workbook.

Unless your score is very low on the Math section, a book full of basic skills and tricks will probably not help you. Using this workbook could be the difference between a mediocre 640 and a pretty-durn-good 720 (and only in two weeks).

Good luck!

PS: On the SAT, there was a problem that even used the same numbers as one of the questions in the Kaplan book! Weird...


Get a better score   October 10, 2000
12 out of 13 found this review helpful

I purchased and studied this book along with the Kaplan SAT Verbal Workbook, and my score shot up! If you're like me and math isn't your strong suit, this is the book for you. It breaks down each kind of SAT math question and offers easy-to-understand strategies that really work. I especially appreciated the thoroughness of the answers to all the practice questions. I wouldn't have gotten into college without this book!


A true review of this Book   July 31, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

In 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!


Practice Makes Perfect!   November 14, 2003
Gstdf Gfgf (Los Angeles)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

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.


Kapan Math Worked Best   December 13, 2007
D. Medrano (Texas)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

We tried and reviewed all the workbooks:Grubers, McGraw, Princeton, Barron. My two teenagers thought that Kaplan did the best job of preparing for the SAT.

However the practice tests in the book are not exactly like the real SAT. For that you need the Official SAT Study Guide.