Sharon Weiner Green - SAT

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Critical Reading sections adapted from previous editions of How to Prepare for the SAT I by Samuel C. Brownstein, Mitchel Weiner, and Sharon Weiner Green, published by Barrons Educational Series, Inc.

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eISBN: 978-1-4380-8368-1
First eBook Publication: December 2010
Revised August 2012

DEDICATION

In memory of Mitchel Weiner and Samuel Brownstein, who first brought college entrance test preparation to the high school students of America.

S.W.G.

To Elaine, my wife and best friend, for all of your support and love.

I.K.W.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sharon Green started helping prepare students for the PSAT and SAT as a 13-year-old assistant at her fathers college entrance tutoring course; she has never stopped since. A National Merit Scholar, she holds degrees from Harvard College, New York University School of Education, and the University of California at Berkeley. Her test preparation books, all published by Barrons, run the gamut from the California High School Proficiency Examination to the GRE. Whenever she can dig her way out from under multiple dictionaries, Sharon enjoys folk dancing, reading Jane Austen and science fiction, and watching Little League baseball.

Dr. Ira Wolf has had a long career in math education. In addition to teaching math at the high school level for several years, he was a professor of mathematics at Brooklyn College and the Director of the Mathematics Teacher Preparation program at SUNY Stony Brook.

Dr. Wolf has been helping students prepare for the PSAT, SAT, ACT, and SAT Subject Tests in Math for more than 35 years. He is the founder and president of PowerPrep, a test preparation company on Long Island that currently works with more than 1,000 high school students each year.

In writing this edition of Barrons SAT, we have aimed to give you the advantages on the SAT that the students we tutor and teach in classes have enjoyed for decades. Therefore, wed like you to think of this study guide as your personal SAT tutor, because thats precisely what it is. Like any good tutor, it will work closely with you, prompting you and giving you pointers to improve your testing skills. It will help you pinpoint your trouble spots and show you how to work on them, and it will point out your strengths as well. After working with your tutor, you should see marked improvement in your performance.

Your personal tutor will be available to work with you whenever you like, for as long or short a time as you like. Working with your tutor, you can go as quickly or as slowly as you like, repeating sections as often as you need, skipping over sections you already know well. Your tutor will give you explanations, not just correct answers, when you make mistakes, and will be infinitely patient and adaptable.

Here are just a few of the things your tutor offers you:

It takes you step by step through thousands of critical reading, writing, and mathematical questions, showing you how to solve them and how to avoid going wrong.

It offers you dozens of clear-cut Testing Tactics and shows you how to use them to attack every question type you will find on the new SAT.

It enables you to simulate actual testing conditions, providing you with a diagnostic test and five model testsall with answers fully explainedeach of which follows the format of the SAT exactly.

It provides comprehensive mathematics review in arithmetic, algebra, and geometrythe three math areas you need to know to do well on the SAT.

It gives you the 365-word High-Frequency Word List, 365 words from abridge to zealot that have been shown by computer analysis to occur and reoccur on actual published SATs, plus Barrons 3,500 Basic Word List, your best chance to acquaint yourself with the whole range of college-level vocabulary you will face on the SAT.

It even gives you your own set of high-frequency word list flash cards in a convenient tear-out section at the back of the book. More than 200 words that have appeared regularly on previous SAT exams are presented, each with its part of speech, pronunciation, definition, and illustrative sentence. Separate the cards and carry some with you to study in spare moments. Or devise a competitive game, and use them with a partner.

No other book offers you as much. Your personal tutor embodies Barrons ongoing commitment to provide you with the best possible coaching for the SAT and every other important test you take. It has benefited from the dedicated labors of Linda Turner and other members of the editorial staff of Barrons, all of whom wish you the best as you settle down with your tutor to work on the SAT.

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Note : As stated above, the experimental section can be an extra 25-minute Critical Reading, Mathematics, or Writing Skills section. This section, which permits the test-makers to try out new questions, does not count in your score; but because there is no way to know which section is the experimental one, you must do your best on every section.

Section 1 is always the essay. Sections 27, which are each 25-minutes long, can come in any order. In particular, the experimenal section is not necessarily Section 5it can be any of Sections 27. Sections 8 and 9 are always a 20-minute Mathematics section and a 20-minute Critical Reading sectionin either order. Section 10 is always the 10-minute Writing Skills section.

The above format is used in all the tests in this book, except that the tests dont have an experimental section. Therefore, the tests in the book take 25 minutes less than an actual SAT.

*As of this writing, the College Board has not provided test dates or registration deadlines. Dates are approximate. The SAT is generally given on the first Saturday of the month, except for January and March, and regular registration is about one month before the exam date. Please check the College Boards website (www.collegeboard.org) periodically for the complete schedule.