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Review every skill and question type needed for SAT success - now with eight total practice tests.
The 2018 edition of The Official SAT Study Guide doubles the number of official SAT(R) practice tests to eight - all of them created by the test maker. As part of the College Board's commitment to transparency, all practice tests are available on the College Board's website, but The Official SAT Study Guide is the only place to find them in print along with over 250 pages of additional instruction, guidance, and test information.
With updated guidance and practice problems that reflect the most recent information, this new edition takes the best-selling SAT guide and makes it even more relevant and useful. Be ready for the SAT with strategies and up-to-date information straight from the exam writers.
The Official SAT Study Guide will help students get ready for the SAT with
- 8 official SAT practice tests, written in the exact same process and by the same team of authors as the actual exam
- detailed descriptions of the math and evidenced based reading and writing sections
- targeted practice questions for each SAT question type
- guidance on the new optional essay, including practice essay questions with sample responses
- seamless integration with Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy.Age range Teen
Ebook Official SAT Study Guide 2020 Edition Official Study Guide For the New SAT The College Board Books
"I’m a Harvard grad, SAT perfect scorer and professional tutor/coach since 2002.
The Official Guide to the SAT 2020 Edition (currently $19), despite not having changed much from the 2018 edition, is still the most essential SAT preparation book on the market. This is neither because the book contains useful SAT strategy advice, nor because the answer explanations are particularly helpful or easy to understand—the strategy advice is almost nonexistent, and the answer explanations are sometimes insightful but far too often convoluted, overly simplistic and/or incomplete. Instead, the book’s primary value lies in the fact that it includes 8 full practice SATs for only about $.02 per page.
How is this book different from the previous (2018) edition of the Official SAT Study Guide, of which you can also read my detailed Amazon customer review (#1 on top)? The first 294 pages of the book (the portion before the tests) are exactly the same. 6 of the 8 tests are the same—though the order has been reversed. And the two new tests—which show up as the first two tests in the book—are the October 2018 and October 2017 SATs, respectively, which are not yet available for download through College Board but can be found easily with a Google search. SAT practice tests #1 and #3 are gone, though you can still find them easily with a Google search. If we agree to call the October 2018 SAT test #10, and the October 2017 SAT test #9, then the tests are in the order 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,2.
Although 6 of the 8 the tests in this book are indeed free to download from the College Board / Khan Academy websites and print out at home (I expect the other 2 to be available as free PDF downloads soon), the cost of doing so would most likely exceed $19 unless you have a free/low-cost printing option. In addition, there is significant value in having all the tests literally bound together in one place—it makes it easy to stay organized, and since the SAT doesn’t provide scratch paper, you can practice by taking all of your notes right there in the book.
In fact, I would suggest that you buy 2 copies of this book: one for taking notes, and the other to keep blank, so that you can review questions later without bias. This is known as the “blind review†method and it works wonders.
You will notice that there is no Kindle version of this book, but again, you can download PDFs of the individual tests, scoring guides and answer explanations from the College Board / Khan Academy websites for free, which is far easier than the Kindle format anyway. That being said, it would be nice if the College Board would put a PDF of the entire book on its website as well--the first 300 pages of the book do include some useful advice on the essay, for example--though again, that advice could be vastly improved.
Of course, these 8 official SATs are just scratching the surface of what’s out there in terms of official SAT practice material: as of this writing I’ve counted 35 official SATs and PSATs in the new format that are publicly available online—and that doesn’t include other test forms that have been leaked.
Finally, in 2015, I also wrote an exhaustive Amazon review of the original (2016) edition of this book, which I’m happy to say is also the #1 review of that book on Amazon. Please feel free to give that review a read as well, and to google “SAT Action Plan: How to Study and Prepare for the SAT College Entrance Exam†for a full list of my personal SAT prep recommendations.
Best of luck on your SAT and beyond,
-Brian"
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Official SAT Study Guide 2020 Edition Official Study Guide For the New SAT The College Board Books Reviews
- I’m a Harvard grad, SAT perfect scorer and professional tutor/coach since 2002.
The Official Guide to the SAT 2020 Edition (currently $19), despite not having changed much from the 2018 edition, is still the most essential SAT preparation book on the market. This is neither because the book contains useful SAT strategy advice, nor because the answer explanations are particularly helpful or easy to understand—the strategy advice is almost nonexistent, and the answer explanations are sometimes insightful but far too often convoluted, overly simplistic and/or incomplete. Instead, the book’s primary value lies in the fact that it includes 8 full practice SATs for only about $.02 per page.
How is this book different from the previous (2018) edition of the Official SAT Study Guide, of which you can also read my detailed customer review (#1 on top)? The first 294 pages of the book (the portion before the tests) are exactly the same. 6 of the 8 tests are the same—though the order has been reversed. And the two new tests—which show up as the first two tests in the book—are the October 2018 and October 2017 SATs, respectively, which are not yet available for download through College Board but can be found easily with a Google search. SAT practice tests #1 and #3 are gone, though you can still find them easily with a Google search. If we agree to call the October 2018 SAT test #10, and the October 2017 SAT test #9, then the tests are in the order 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,2.
Although 6 of the 8 the tests in this book are indeed free to download from the College Board / Khan Academy websites and print out at home (I expect the other 2 to be available as free PDF downloads soon), the cost of doing so would most likely exceed $19 unless you have a free/low-cost printing option. In addition, there is significant value in having all the tests literally bound together in one place—it makes it easy to stay organized, and since the SAT doesn’t provide scratch paper, you can practice by taking all of your notes right there in the book.
In fact, I would suggest that you buy 2 copies of this book one for taking notes, and the other to keep blank, so that you can review questions later without bias. This is known as the “blind review†method and it works wonders.
You will notice that there is no version of this book, but again, you can download PDFs of the individual tests, scoring guides and answer explanations from the College Board / Khan Academy websites for free, which is far easier than the format anyway. That being said, it would be nice if the College Board would put a PDF of the entire book on its website as well--the first 300 pages of the book do include some useful advice on the essay, for example--though again, that advice could be vastly improved.
Of course, these 8 official SATs are just scratching the surface of what’s out there in terms of official SAT practice material as of this writing I’ve counted 35 official SATs and PSATs in the new format that are publicly available online—and that doesn’t include other test forms that have been leaked.
Finally, in 2015, I also wrote an exhaustive review of the original (2016) edition of this book, which I’m happy to say is also the #1 review of that book on . Please feel free to give that review a read as well, and to google “SAT Action Plan How to Study and Prepare for the SAT College Entrance Exam†for a full list of my personal SAT prep recommendations.
Best of luck on your SAT and beyond,
-Brian
