Total Page : 320
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Publication Date : 2009 01 22
>> Full of ERRORS and not the most helpful
After going through the majority of the book I knew that it was not the best book There were many errors and misleading information I bought it because of the good reviews on the Amazon but I soon realized that many of them were just used to bring up the ratings I would not recommend this book If you are actually serious of the SAT chem do not buy McGraw s book
>> It s a fluff book
I bought this book solely based on the 11 five star versus 3 low star reviews However it was misleading Don t know where those 11 five star reviews came from This book is mostly fluff with very little valuable stuff Of course you may buy it if you target only 500 600 If you want a decent score >700 I recommend other books such as Barron Princeton review and Kaplan I bought them from Amazon In a word this book is superficial Don t be fooled by those good reviews
>> Easier than the real thing but provides alot of practice questions
I bought this book not for the review sections but for the 5 practice tests I think practice is the most important thing if you want to score well on any exam I found I scored better on these tests than those in Kaplan s book I was not surprised when I sat for the real thing and found it harder than this book
If you don t plan on investing a lot of your time into preparing for SAT Chem and you re looking for a book that closely models the real thing get the official Collegeboard instead although it only has 1 practice test and no review I did it only once and because of the mistakes I made managed not to repeat them when I sat for the real test and there were quite a few opportunities to repeat them
However if like me you plan on investing a lot of time into preparing get this book The number of tests despite their low difficulty level will allow you to practice doing the questions quickly and revise basic concepts
You should have a reference maybe a textbook from your course or even google by your side though It ll greatly help in clarifying important concepts AND providing the information that needs to be memorized YES some of the information needs to be memorized Meaning you cannot derive them just from knowing basic concepts
I got an 800 for the test
Hope this helps
