Cracking the SAT Premium Edition with 8 Practice Tests, 2020: The All-in-One Solution for Your Highest Possible Score (College Test Preparation)

I'm a Harvard grad, SAT perfect scorer and professional SAT tutor/coach since 2002. I am also a former SAT instructor for the Princeton Review, Inc., and the founder of the r/SATACTprep subreddit, with over 1,000 subscribers and growing.

Although Princeton Review's "Cracking the SAT Premium Edition with 8 Practice Tests, 2020" provides a friendly, organized and accessible introduction to the SAT, top students will ultimately find it lacking. The 8 (non-official) SAT practice tests have little value compared to the 37 real, official College Board SATs and PSATs currently available on the web, and although the strategy advice is helpful for the novice student, high scorers (1200 and above) will find the Erica Meltzer and College Panda series of books to be more serious and thorough alternatives to preparing for the the Verbal and Math sections of the SAT, respectively.

For my own personal SAT prep recommendations, you can google "SAT Action Plan: How to Study and Prepare for the SAT College Entrance Exam."

Best of luck on the SAT and beyond,

-Brian

I have taken the SAT during winter last year, before which I had taken all 8 of the OG tests. I averaged around 1520-1530 on those, and came home with a 1540. Because I had to take the test again for the essay portion, I chose to buy this book as a warm-up.

I took 4 of their practice tests in total, and they averaged around 1470. I shrugged the first two off as me being not concentrated or having a bad day, but now I'm beginning to see a problem with the material. Questions are not comparable to the OG tests, they are "harder" in a sense that the answers and/or questions are more obscure. Answer keys are often along the lines of "B is correct because xxx. A, C, D are incorrect because they are not B."

I'm switching back to the OGs since they are more representative of what I would actually score.

Edit: Just took the first OG test and got a 1560. That is roughly 100 higher than any of my mocks in this book. This book, then, is just hard for no reason & does not align to the actual tests at all.

This is a great book to purchase. It teaches you about grammar step to step. It also teaches you how to read the reading article thoroughly and how to break it down. The book also helps us summarize the articles we will see on the SAT by supplying us with test articles, which I’ve seen usually shows a question that asks about the summary of the article.

Must have My daughter is a 5.0
11th grader she's on it every day
Preparing for test

Daughter loves the book. She says the test and quizzes are helping her better prepare for her upcoming SAT

It is useful as practice. But beware how up to date it is. Khan Academy's SAT prep is a lot harder. We don't know until our daughter takes real SAT.

Nice book, lots of information. Tests. Daughter is using it to study for her SATS next year!

The best

I haven't had time to read it yet, but it seems ok so far.

Great product. Helped my son prep for sat