Product Description

Even the brightest and most hard-working students aren't expected to score a perfect 2400 on their SAT college entrance tests, but students who approach perfection with scores of 2100 or higher are virtually guaranteed acceptance at the country's most prestigious colleges. The new edition of this popular guide for high-achieving college-bound students bypasses the standard test preparation drills and offers novel advice and innovative strategies for tackling the SAT's hardest questions. The book presents Critical Reading strategies for both long and short passages, concentrated help for writing a near-perfect SAT essay, and extra coaching in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, statistics, and math word problems. Students will also find difficult practice questions with explained answers in all SAT test areas, upper-level vocabulary lists, and useful math formulas.

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Product Details

Publisher	Barron's Educational Series
ISBN	0764138057
Format	Paperback
Author	Linda Carnevale M.A.,Roselyn Teukolsky M.S.
EAN	9780764138058
Label	Barron's Educational Series
Edition	2
Dewey Decimal Number	378.1662
Studio	Barron's Educational Series
Number Of Pages	384
Title	Barron's SAT 2400: Aiming for the Perfect Score
Publication Date	2008-08-01
Manufacturer	Barron's Educational Series

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Customer Reviews

a lot of easy problems, not enough hard ones

Review by Daniel C. Eiblum, 2010-07-05

How does one get a 2400 if they practice many easy problems as opposed to difficult ones. There are too many easy problems in this book, which is a waste of time for high acheiving math students.

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Not at all what I expected

Review by D. McCarthy, 2010-06-24

When I bought this book, I expected it to be better than the Official SAT Guide at preparing me to get a 2400. However, after going through the first few chapters, I realized the questions are HORRIBLE.

I've gotten an 800 in both Critical Reading and Writing sections on the SAT both times I've taken it, and really just wanted this book to help with math. But, since I bought it, I figured I should look at the Critical Reading and Writing sections anyway. I was surprised to find how different the practice questions are from the actual SAT-Barron shouldn't be able to say the questions are based on "real SAT" questions, because they are obviously not.

The questions seem very basic, like the authors didn't want to spend much time at all making them. They throw in a lot of (the same) "difficult vocabulary words" into the questions, but these really can't hide the fact that the questions themselves are extremely lower-level. And once you've done a chapter or 2, you know ALL the vocab words Barron uses-for instance, the word "myriad" was used in three separate questions in the same section---definitely NOT what happens on the actual SAT.

The answers for the questions are even worse. No answer seems to be the "best", they all seem to be equally correct or incorrect. The explanations for the answers are weak, with some of the "correct" answers so obviously wrong that I couldn't believe they even attempted to explain why they were right. The answers would NOT be correct on the SAT, so by learning what Barron deems "correct", I'm sure a lot of people would do worse on the SAT than they should.

On the otherhand, the strategies are refreshing and a lot different than the typical strategies given by other guides. They are concise, and only about 2 pages per section-they are much easier to read through than the Official Guide to the SAT, which is extremely long.

But that being said, the horrible questions (and even worse answers) ruin this book.

On the positive side, there's a helpful vocab list in the back (although it's pretty short, and quite basic) and the strategies are new and interesting, even if you don't decide to use them.

However, DO NOT buy this book if you are looking for helpful practice questions that will improve your SAT score. I'd recommend using the Official Guide---actual SAT questions from the maker---if you need them. Barron's SAT 2400 is good for brief strategies, but if you want to actually increase your score through practice, DO NOT buy this book.

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Very good book

Review by Nahid Sewell, 2010-06-05

The book was great in providing all the guidelines, examples, samples and tricks. I also enrolled my kids in a semi-private class. Together, the book and class helped raise their scores in ACT by at least 2 points.

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Pretty Good Book.

Review by Ramessu MeriamenSA, 2010-02-03

This book is great for any students who can already ace the basic questions. Thus, it focuses on difficult problems and gives you strategies to help you master the Level 4 and 5 questions. I haven't taken the SAT yet, but when I do, I will update my review. My used copy had some markings in the writing sections, but the math sections (the part I needed most) was pristine and untouched.

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Great book

Review by I. Efrati, 2009-12-03

Although I didn't get 2400, this book raised my score from 1950-1990 to 2050-2100.

The book has great tips for the CR part and for the writing part (I found the Math similar to the regular Barron's book)
It raised my CR score by 60 points and improved my essay score to a solid 10.

You can't use this book solely and you will need at least one of the SAT "normal level guides" for several reasons, for example this book has a poor vocabulary list and no practice tests.

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