Review of the College Board’s New Official SAT Study Guide – 2nd edition!

The Official SAT Study Guide - 2nd Edition

The College Board recently released the second edition to their Official SAT Study Guide, and it looks like a significant improvement on the original.

The main addition is the 10 new practice tests (2 more than the 1st edition), and more importantly, 3 recent exams. Those of us geezers who took the old SAT (the one scored out of 1600) will remember that the College Board used to publish 10 Real SATs, which was a precursor to the Official SAT Study Guide and featured 10 actual SAT tests from recent years. Those tests were extremely helpful, since you knew that the questions were actually used on an SAT.

When they changed the SAT format by adding a whole new section, the College Board didn’t have any old tests to publish. Instead they published “practice tests,” which were supposed to be similar to the actual ones. But they never carried the weight and value of actual exams.

I’m glad to see real exams making their way into print again, and I am looking forward to the next edition, which will hopefully contain even more real SATs.

If you don’t have the first edition already, this is a no-brainer. No other book carries actual SATs, nor do they have the cache of being “straight from the source.” Even if you have the 1st edition, but want more practice tests, you should definitely pick this one up. You’re getting 10 brand-new practice tests and 3 actual recent tests – more than worth the $13.

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