Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042076 EAN: 9780764123467 ISBN: 0764123467 Label: Barron's Educational Series Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: June 15, 2004 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Sales Rank: 297788 Studio: Barron's Educational Series
Product DescriptionThe author presents a self-assessment writing test and five practice SAT II Writing Tests with explained answers for multiple-choice questions and performance evaluation charts for written essays. There is also a self-scoring guide that reflects SAT II standards for the essay questions. Additional features include a grammar and punctuation review plus advice on style and usage. This updated edition contains more than two dozen student essays, each of them analyzed and scored.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Great Book!
I used this book in preparation for the PSAT and the new SAT. I haven't received my SAT score yet, but I received an 80 on the writing section of the PSAT. Honestly, I think this is an excellent study guide! Even if you're good at English, this in-depth book shows you what to look for when answering questions. I HIGHLY recommend it.
Rating: - Your key to a 700+
Words cannot express the level of gratitude that I have for this book. Before using this book, I was not exactly the greatest writer: I was getting low scores on the SAT writing tests, and my english papers were chock-full of grammatical errors. However, after I used this book, I've noticed that my papers are so much more organized and grammar-free, and the style of writing is more enticing. My writing sounds more intelligent. To top it off, I got a 720/800 on the SAT II writing test, which is not ... Read More
Rating: - Wouldn't recommend Barrons...
The best thing about this book was the section it devoted to the essay portion of the test. It gave great examples of good essays and bad essays, what to avoid and what to exercise when writing your essay. BUT, the review for the other two sections was shotty. It gave decent overviews of grammar, but it doesn't give any practice questions... AT ALL. Only exercises that make you write and are extremely boring. I got a 700 on this test, which is a decent score, but I barely looked at this book because ... Read More
Rating: - 700+ SAT/SAT II Scores ARE Possible
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Do books like this help? When I attended a decent public high school, we were told that outside preparation was a good way to spend a lot of time and money on statistically insignificant returns. This doesn't bother private high school students I've met recently. I don't know if preparation has improved, or if the "cost" side of cost/benefit inhibits them less. Familiarity with the format and grounding in tactics has got to be worth something.
Rating: - Something extra
I got this book for my high school teenager as a supplement to the Kaplan Guide in order to provide more practice tests. But this Barron's book included a bonus.
It provides a scale for the number of correct answers needed in the multiple choice section for different levels of achievement, e.g. excellent, better, good etc. This was missing from the Kaplan book. Although it does not provide a translation to the scaled scores, it is still a helpful tool to know what specific number of right ... Read More
- A Great Book!
- Wouldn't recommend Barrons...
