Geraldine Woods - SAT For Dummies, Two eBook Bundle: SAT For Dummies and SAT Math For Dummies

*SAT For Dummies, 8th Edition

by Geraldine Woods with Peter Bonfanti and Kristin Josephson

*SAT For Dummies, 8th Edition

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About the Authors

Geraldine Woods has prepared students for the SAT, both academically and emotionally, for the past three decades. She also teaches English and directs the independent-study program at the Horace Mann School in New York City. She is the author of more than 50 books, including English Grammar For Dummies, 2nd Edition; English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition; Grammar Essentials For Dummies; Research Papers For Dummies; College Admission Essays For Dummies; AP English Literature & Composition For Dummies; and AP English Language & Composition For Dummies, all published by Wiley. She lives in New York City with her husband and two parakeets.

Peter Bonfanti has taught high school math in New York City since 1996. Before that, he lived in Pennsylvania and was a monk. Before that, he went to school in New Jersey, where he was born and hopes to return someday.

Kristin Josephson survived the college admissions process only to drop out of MIT 16 months later to attend circus school in San Francisco. While there, she studied flying trapeze, trampoline, and acrobatics. Kristin discovered her passion for teaching while she was tutoring in the Bay Area, a passion that led her to complete her degree at Colorado College. Kristin eventually landed at the Horace Mann School, where she has been teaching high school mathematics since 2007.

Dedication

For Linda, friend of 40 years; for Gillian, an honorary New Yorker; and for Jacqueline, kindness personified.

Authors' Acknowledgments

Geraldine Woods: I would like to thank Peter Bonfanti and Kristin Josephson, good friends and accomplished mathematicians, who created the math explanations and examples for this book. I also thank Albert Wu, a former student and aspiring comedy writer, who came up with the idea for mock SAT questions and graciously allowed me to use it. I appreciate the efforts of Georgette Beatty, Christy Pingleton, Megan Knoll, and Lindsay Lefevere of Wiley, as well as those of my agent, Lisa Queen, and the technical reviewers, Cindy Kaplan and Amy Nicklin.

Peter would like to thank his parents, for making it possible for him to get up every morning, and Lorraine, for making it worth his while. (Also his brother, Paul, who put up with sharing a room with him for many of those mornings.)

Kristin Josephson: Id like to thank my friends, loved ones, teachers, and students for kindness, compassion, interest, and hilarity. I especially want to thank my mother, Lynn, who regularly astonishes me and who inspired me to be the teacher I am today, and my father, Marc, who lifted me up to the full moon as an infant and who has never missed an opportunity to teach me something new.

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