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Materials listed may be borrowed from any library branch; please call your local branch for availability.

SAT Test Preparation Books

• Y 378.1662 C Carris, Joan Davenport. Panic Plan for the SAT. 2001.
• Y 378.1662 F Fast track SAT & PSAT. 2001.
• Y 378.1662 G Green, Sharon. Barron's SAT 1: How to Prepare for the SAT 1. 2001.
• Y 378.1662 G Gruber, Gary R . Gruber's Complete Preparation for the SAT. 2001.
• Y 378.1662 P Pine, Phil. Master the SAT 2002: Teacher-tested Strategies and Techniques for Scoring High. 2001.
• Y 378.1662 PIN Pine, Phil. Master the SAT. 2003.
• Y 378.1662 R Rimal, Rajiv N. 30 Days to the SAT: Teacher Tested Strategies and Techniques for Scoring High. 2001.
• Y 378.1662 R Robinson, Adam. Cracking the SAT & PSAT/NMSQT. 2002.
• 378.16 R Robinson, Adam. Cracking the SAT & PSAT/NMSQT. 2001 ed.
• Y 378.16 U Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT. 2001-2002 ed.
• Y378.1662 W Weber, Karl. The Insider's Guide to the SAT. 2001.

Online SAT Test Preparation Resources

Online resources are your next step in rounding out your SAT preparation skills. Be sure to allow yourself enough time to complete a full test while online. Please note that registration, at no cost, is required of most online resources.

• LearnATest - An Online Learning Center for Interactive Test-Prep Success, LearnATest gives you access to practice tests that are based on the official exams, including ACT, SAT, and more! Plus, if you want to practice at home, you can as long as you have your library card available. Go to www.pgcmls.info, pull down the database menu from any page on our website, select LearnATest, register, and begin practicing.

Internet Resources:

• www.collegeboard.com
  The College Board's mission is to prepare, inspire, and connect students to college and opportunity using interactive tools and offering expert advice. Registration includes your own free account to get scores online, save searches and applications, receive e-mail alerts about dates and deadlines, download study guides, try free sample questions and take a diagnostic mini-SAT!
• www.kaptest.com
  Kaplan, is also one of the nation's premier providers of educational and career services. Registration is required at no cost which includes a practice lab, strategy sessions, featured articles, and includes a "stress management system" to help you relax before the test.
• www.princetonreview.com
  The Princeton Review's online "Student Center" is available at no cost and consists of online courses, workshops, and classroom or individual tutoring options 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Register for your own free account called "My Review" which lets you save information about schools, applications, stats, and deadlines. Free online course demo and a full-length practice test available.
• www.petersons.com
  Peterson's is a leading publisher of college preparation material. Start your tour with "Test Preparation" and follow to "College Admissions" where you will find tips and strategies, sample questions, and test dates and locations. Fee-based registration is required to take a full online practice test.
• www.eduprep.com
  Eduprep.com allows a student to create a simple profile, tailor a college education finance plan and match their academic qualifications to the most comprehensive database of scholarships and colleges in the industry. Register for a free 21-day program which gives access to all "Get Ready for College" tools.

Help in Building Skills Tested by SAT I

Have time for more than a quick pre-test cram? It's never too early to develop the reading and reasoning abilities that SAT I will draw upon.

Analogies

• WKP 378.16 BAD Bader, William, et al. The Miller Analogies Test, 2002.
• WKP 378.16 S Sternberg, Robert J. How to Prepare for the MAT, Miller Analogies Test. 8th ed., 2001.

These two books demonstrate categories of word relationships and offer many exercises in identifying them.

• 428.43 C Chesla, Elizabeth. Read Better, Remember More. 2d. Ed. 2000.
• Y 428.43 FRY Fry, Ronald W. Improve Your Reading. 4th ed. 2000.
• 428.43 S Schaffzin, Nicholas Reid. The Princeton Review Reading Smart: Advanced Techniques for Improved Reading. 1996.

• Y 428.1 BRA Brantley, Cynthia. The Princeton Review Word Smart Junior: Build a Straight "A" Vocabulary. 1996.
  Presents easier words than are found in the other "Word Smart" books.
• Y 428.2 B Burchers, Sam. Vocabulary Cartoons II: Building an Educated Vocabulary with Sight and Sound Memory Aids. 2000.
  Adds cute cartoons to reinforce definitions and sample sentences for words likely to appear on the SAT.
• Y 378.16 E Elster, Charles Harrington and Joseph Elliot. Tooth and Nail: A Novel Approach to the New SAT. 1994.
  Bored with word lists and dictionaries? This book teaches new words by placing them in a mystery novel and including their definitions.
• 428.1 R Robinson, Adam. Word Smart : Building an Educated Vocabulary. 1993.
• 428.1 R Robinson, Adam. The Princeton Review Word Smart II: How to Build a More Educated Vocabulary. 1992.
  This author uses short lively stories to gives clues to meanings of hard words. (Both are also available on compact disc or cassette tapes.)
• 378.1662 ULT The Ultimate Verbal and Vocabulary Builder [for the SAT and other college-level tests]. 2001.
  Lists lots of words, definitions, illustrative sentences; then tests your memory of them in multiple-choice questions.
  

• 512 BOB Bobrow, Jerry. CliffsQuickReview Algebra I. 2001.
  Lets you brush up your skills in a variety of pre-algebra and algebra operations.
• 513 CAR Carman, Robert A. and Marilyn J. Carman. Quick Arithmetic: A Self-Teaching Guide. 3rd ed. 2001.
  Includes numeric and word problems using SAT-tested operations with roots, exponents, fractions, decimals, and percents.
• 512 DOW Downing, Douglas. Algebra, The Easy Way. 3rd ed. 1996.
  Gives conversational explanations and plenty of numeric and word problems.
• 513.14 F French, Doug. High School Math II Review. 1998.
  The Princeton Review's sequel to its Math I survey.
• 516.22 L Leff, Lawrence S. Geometry the Easy Way. 3rd ed. 1997.
  Explains principles and offers lots of models and practice exercises.
• 512 LON Long, Lynette. Painless Algebra. 1998.
  Uses humorous cartoons to help illustrate solutions to basic algebra, exponents, inequalities, roots, radicals and quadratic equations.
• 512 M Mitchell, Robert. Contemporary's Number Power 3: Algebra. 1988.
  Presents a basic approach to signs, roots, ratio, equations, polynomials etc.
• 512 NAR Nardi, William A. How to Solve Algebra Word Problems. 3rd ed. 2001.
  Shows how to begin by translating English into algebraic symbols.
• 513 S Spaihts, Jonathan. The Princeton Review: High School Math I Review. 1998.
  Includes introductory algebra and geometry concepts and exercises.
• 513 T Tamarkin, Kenneth. Contemporary's Number Power 6: Word Problems. 1991.
  Outlines distinct steps for tackling word problems in the four basic arithmetic operations plus proportions, percents, decimals, and fractions.