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Acknowledgments
An SAT course is much more than clever techniques and powerful computer score reports. The reason our results are great is that our teachers care so much about their students. Many teachers have gone out of their way to improve the course, often going so far as to write their own materials, some of which we have incorporated into our course manuals as well as into this book. The list of these teachers could fill this page.
Special thanks to Jonathan Chiu and all those who contributed to this years edition: Cat Healey, Amy Minster, Sara Soriano, and Elizabeth Owens.
Thanks to Brian Becker, Joelle Cotham, Julia Ayles, Lori DesRochers, Bobby Hood, Aaron Lindh, Garrison Pierzynski, Nicole-Henriette Pirnie, Ed Carroll, Pete Stajk, David Stoll, and Curtis Retherford for their work on previous iterations of this title.
Special thanks to Adam Robinson, who conceived of and perfected the Joe Bloggs approach to standardized tests and many of the other successful techniques used by The Princeton Review.
Finally, we would like to thank the people who truly have taught us everything we know about the SAT: our students.
Contents
Foreword
Welcome to Cracking the SAT! The SAT is not a test of aptitude, how good of a person you are, or how successful you will be in life. The SAT simply tests how well you take the SAT. And performing well on the SAT is a skill, one that can be learned like any other. The Princeton Review was founded more than 30 years ago on this very simple idea, andas our students test scores showour approach is the one that works.
Sure, you want to do well on the SAT, but you dont need to let the test intimidate you. As you prepare, remember two important things about the SAT:
It doesnt measure the stuff that matters. It measures neither intelligence nor the depth and breadth of what youre learning in high school. It doesnt predict college grades as well as your high school grades do. Colleges know there is more to you as a studentand as a personthan what you do in a single 3-hour test administered on a random Saturday morning.
It underpredicts the college performance of women, minorities, and disadvantaged students. Historically, women have done better than men in college but worse on the SAT. For a test that is used to help predict performance in college, thats a pretty poor record.
Your preparation for the SAT starts here. We at The Princeton Review spend millions of dollars every year improving our methods and materials so that students are always ready for the SAT, and well get you ready too.