Up your score : the underground guide to the SAT by Berger, Larry instant download

Up your score : the underground guide to the SAT by Berger, Larry instant download

2007/2008 ed.- cataloged as a serial in LC, New: a required original essay. New: more-advanced math, including Algebra II. New: a reconfigured verbal section. (Of course, for those of you taking the test before March 2005, the old rules still apply.) In this completely overhauled edition of Up Your Score, Larry, Michael, Manek, Paul, and special guest editor Janet prime you for the changes to the new SAT -- but keep all the stuff you need to best the old test. It's the only SAT strategy book written for students by students (two with perfect 1600s, and three with scores over 1500). It's a true guerilla guide, packed with smart preparation and advice that will help you psyche out -- and not be psyched out by -- the Test, One Afternoon in the Ithaca High School Cafeteria Way Back in the Late '80s -- Years Later -- Months Later -- About the SAT -- An Authors' Note Intended to Build Confidence -- The Story of the Evil Testing Serpent -- SAT Scoring -- SAT Mistakes -- SAT Services -- How to Practice -- Getting in Gear -- Up Your Score Cheat Sheet -- The Verbal / Critical Reading Section -- Four Key Rules and a Tip -- Sentence Completions -- Critical Reading Passages -- About SAT Words -- Memorizing SAT Words -- The Word List -- Useful Synonyms -- Similar-Looking Words -- Important Literary Terms -- The Math Section -- Theory of Study -- Calculators -- Fractions/Units -- Word Problems -- Equations -- Geometry -- Coordinate Geometry -- The Funny Symbol Question -- Heinous Miscellaneous Math -- Grid-in Problems -- SAT II Writing Test / The Writing Section -- The Story of Little-Read Writing Serpent -- The Three Question Types -- The 13 Rules of the Writing Test -- The Essay -- Guessing, or The ETS Strikes Back: Impostors from Hell -- Impostors from Hell -- Guessing, the SAT, and the Specter of World Destruction -- The Six Rules of Guessing -- But Wait! You Also Get -- Concentration -- Proctors: Mindless Slaves of the ETS -- Relaxation -- Yoga and the SAT -- Cheating --…