McGraw-Hill's SAT, 2012 Edition

 (5 customer reviews)

This is the main book I used to study for the SAT a few cycles ago back in high school, and I have to say it's perhaps the best non-ETS SAT book on the market. What makes it especially nice is its personable style it's written in; the authors have put in considerable effort into learning the student's perspective and writing every lesson from in a way the STUDENT would do best. My other SAT preparation arsenal happened to include The CollegeBoard Official 10 Tests (which you should also get) and Barron's SAT, but I found that while both of those have their own strengths--which shouldn't be discounted at all--, they aren't written on a level that is as personable as this one. (For instance, their explanations use much more "technical" language that a student may not necessarily find as meaningful as the language in this one.)

And to add to the book's strengths, what is unique is how the author graciously makes himself accessible via e-mail if you have any questions you, the...Read more

I have read this book cover to cover multiple times and I use it as the base to a SAT prep class that I teach, its a great book and I strongly reccomend it to anyone who is going to take the SAT

This book continues to be a great choice for SAT prep. It has extensive math exercises and the sentence completion explanations contain many definitions of the words users probably do not know on their own.