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Up Your Score SAT: The Underground Guide, 2015 Edition
More college-bound seniors than ever are taking the SAT—in 2012, 1.66 million of them. Up Your Score: SAT is the only guide written for students, by students. Filled with expert advice and proven strategies, it injects a feisty attitude into the dry business of test prep, fending off test anxiety with humor. Its four authors and guest editor achieved perfect or near-perfect scores and attended the colleges of their choice, and the book shows readers how they can do the same.
Discover the eight core ways the test approaches math. Learn 600 key vocabulary words with proven tricks to make definitions memorable. Master the 13 most important grammar rules, and find out how to prepare your essay in advance. Plus, Up Your Score shows how to “psych out” the test. How to think like the SAT. The best ways to fill in answer circles and other strategies to save precious minutes. Tips for maintaining concentration. Why it’s always better to guess than to leave a question unanswered. And a recipe for energy-boosting Sweet & Tasty 800 Bars.
Up Your Score is the inexpensive complement—and reality check—to the institutional tomes by Princeton Review and Kaplan. It’s the guerrilla guide that students recommend to each other—the only one kids actually want to use. But don’t take our word for it—check out these posts from Up Your Score’s Facebook page:
“OMG, with this book, my second SAT score went up 220 points from my first score . . . thanks for the awesome tips. everyone should buy this book!:)”
“Just bought the book for my SAT test . . . I’m already laughing and it’s making studying a little less terrible
“I got a 1900 partly because of you guys, thank you SO much!”
Discover the eight core ways the test approaches math. Learn 600 key vocabulary words with proven tricks to make definitions memorable. Master the 13 most important grammar rules, and find out how to prepare your essay in advance. Plus, Up Your Score shows how to “psych out” the test. How to think like the SAT. The best ways to fill in answer circles and other strategies to save precious minutes. Tips for maintaining concentration. Why it’s always better to guess than to leave a question unanswered. And a recipe for energy-boosting Sweet & Tasty 800 Bars.
Up Your Score is the inexpensive complement—and reality check—to the institutional tomes by Princeton Review and Kaplan. It’s the guerrilla guide that students recommend to each other—the only one kids actually want to use. But don’t take our word for it—check out these posts from Up Your Score’s Facebook page:
“OMG, with this book, my second SAT score went up 220 points from my first score . . . thanks for the awesome tips. everyone should buy this book!:)”
“Just bought the book for my SAT test . . . I’m already laughing and it’s making studying a little less terrible
“I got a 1900 partly because of you guys, thank you SO much!”
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328 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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December 28, 2011
I have to recommend this book to anyone preparing for the SAT. This book is funny, original, and helpful, a nice alternative to the dry, straight-forward material you'll have to read through in most other test prep books. I recommend it mostly for the vocabulary in it, because their definitions are all funny and clever plays on words, and they actually help you remember it a lot better.
March 5, 2018
I found humor in this book irritating and unnecessary. There was a lot of fluff intermittent with some advice. Their strategies are not unique and I did not find anything here that was not already in other books related to SAT preparation. It is also not very useful for prep as it does not contain practice questions.
February 3, 2018
A fun goofy take on studying for the SATs. I really enjoyed this teaching style. Even though it wasn't as thorough as other books out there. The authors all scored well on their SATs and used cartoons and a kind of storytelling style to get you acquainted to important SAT concepts and test question styles.
This book helped me memorize a lot of words because of the funny word associations.
This book helped me memorize a lot of words because of the funny word associations.
June 24, 2010
This book really tells you how to ace each section. The book gives you nice little shortcuts and hints. The book breaks up the sections pretty well. I would take the advice. This book is worth your time and money.
The book does exactly what it says. It will bump up your score. You must do that through hard work. I would get another book with just practice tests, if you are going to get this book. The book is very humorous. You'll find the examples really nice. These kids really know what they are talking about.
The book does exactly what it says. It will bump up your score. You must do that through hard work. I would get another book with just practice tests, if you are going to get this book. The book is very humorous. You'll find the examples really nice. These kids really know what they are talking about.
December 4, 2008
This book is my absolute best friend now.
It's witty, informative, and caters to the teenager with an abundance of allusions and some mild vulgarity.
Just the way I like it.
If all I did to prepare for the SAT was read this book, I would be confident.
Worth every penny.
It's witty, informative, and caters to the teenager with an abundance of allusions and some mild vulgarity.
Just the way I like it.
If all I did to prepare for the SAT was read this book, I would be confident.
Worth every penny.
April 19, 2011
My mom made me read this to prepare for taking the SAT in the 7th grade (?!!?) and it was actually pretty helpful. I'd imagine it was more interesting than most other books on the subject. 2 stars for writing, 4 for content.
June 11, 2013
Hilarious and packed full of gotta-know info for the SAT. Nice to have something fun to read to space out those harder, heavier study books. But its not just all fun—it makes it easier to learn and remember important info. B-) Definitely recommend. My only complaint is some crude humor.
March 4, 2008
A funny book that prepares kids for the SAT.
October 26, 2009
Textbook, No Comment.
January 10, 2012
Funny and entertaining book!
February 17, 2013
This was great and helped me alot with the SAT!!! I recommend this so much! It was hilarious!!!
May 25, 2013
I love the Word list.
June 10, 2013
Helpful, easy to read guide to the SAT, even though I didn't care for most of the jokes.
March 8, 2014
Super Helpful!! By far the best SAT book I have found!! They made it super easy to understand. :D
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