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| Introduction | VII | |
| 1. | Inside the New SAT | 1 |
| How the Test Will Change | 4 | |
| The New PSAT and the National Merit Program | 7 | |
| How Important Is the SAT? | 10 | |
| What about the ACT? | 13 | |
| ACT-SAT I Conversion Chart | 14 | |
| Is It Possible to Psych Out the SAT? | 15 | |
| What It Takes to Beat the SAT | 18 | |
| Developing Your Own Approach | 22 | |
| 2. | SAT Prep Courses: Straight Talk From Students | 23 |
| The Story behind the Survey | 24 | |
| Eye-Opening Results | 25 | |
| Princeton Review and Kaplan | 26 | |
| Score Increase Claims: A Closer Look | 27 | |
| Why the Myth Won't Go Away | 29 | |
| Students Talk about Their Prep Courses | 30 | |
| The Test-Prep Syndrome | 32 | |
| A Closer Look at the Questionnaires | 33 | |
| 3. | Taking Charge of Your SAT Prep | 45 |
| When Should I Take the SAT? | 47 | |
| How Many Times Should I Take It? | 50 | |
| Registering for the Tests | 52 | |
| Late Registration and Score Reporting | 54 | |
| Students with Disabilities | 56 | |
| Making Your Own Prep Course | 59 | |
| Beating Anxiety and Time Pressure | 61 | |
| Your Game Plan | 64 | |
| The Zen of Test Day | 70 | |
| 4. | Writing | 73 |
| The Essay | 73 | |
| Getting Your Brain in Gear | 75 | |
| The First Paragraph | 77 | |
| The Body and the Conclusion | 82 | |
| The Nitty-Gritty of How to Prepare | 90 | |
| Know Your Audience | 92 | |
| Hitting the Fast-Forward Button | 92 | |
| Keys to Success | 93 | |
| Identifying Sentence Errors | 94 | |
| Verb Tenses | 102 | |
| Keys to Success | 104 | |
| Improving Sentences | 105 | |
| Style and Sentence Structure | 108 | |
| Keys to Success | 113 | |
| Improving Paragraphs | 114 | |
| Keys to Success | 123 | |
| 5. | Critical Reading | 127 |
| Sentence Completion | 127 | |
| Keys to Success | 136 | |
| The Old SAT: Analogies | 137 | |
| But I've Never Seen These Words in My Life! | 140 | |
| Reading Comprehension | 141 | |
| Three Kinds of Passages | 143 | |
| Paragraph-Length Passages | 158 | |
| Honing Your Strategy | 161 | |
| Finding the Point of View | 165 | |
| Keys to Success | 166 | |
| 6. | Math | 169 |
| It's Not about the Math | 170 | |
| Inside the Bag of Tricks | 172 | |
| Taking the Pressure Off | 178 | |
| Grinning Through the Grid-ins | 181 | |
| The Old SAT: Quantitative Comparison Questions | 183 | |
| Oh Yeah, the Math | 187 | |
| The New SAT's Math | 194 | |
| Keys to Success | 209 | |
| 7. | Word for Word: Quotes from the Students about Prep Courses | 211 |
| Students Who Took a Princeton Review Course | 212 | |
| Students Who Took a Kaplan Course | 216 | |
| One-on-One Tutoring | 219 | |
| Acknowledgments | 222 | |
| About the Authors | 224 |
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