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| Caveat EmptorThis volume is one of the only tools available to prepare for the Latin SAT-II. I recently purchased it to consider ordering it for my Latin III class, many of whom take the test. The book was a serious disappointment. It's one virtue is the number of practice questions it offers; though some of them are from such old tests that they don't provide much benefit for today's test takers. Unfortunately, however, the book is riddled with serious errors that will confuse students. On a single page containing seven questions, I found five substantive errors. For example, as the correct translation of "Pueros prohibui ne domi irent" we are offered "I have forbidden the boys", although the secondary sequence "irent" forces the simple past translation, "I forbade". A question about "celerius navigabant" offers no answer that reflects the comparative degree of the adverb. On the same page there is a use of credo with the accusative, rather than dative case, and the following unintelligible item: "Dixi eum libros quos lectus esses scribere." Numerous questions have no correct answer; some have two; some grammar questions are missing their verbs. The problem goes well beyond typos, though there are plenty of those. In one reading passage, interiacebat, "(it) lay between" is glossed as coming from intericio, "throw between", and violentiam loses its -i-, rendering "quae huic urbi per violentam ignium acciderunt" difficult to construe. This error is compounded by the fact that students are asked to choose the best translation of this sentence in a question that repeats the mistake. An equally serious deficit in the book is the lack of explanatory material. Students will have to consult a teacher to understand their mistakes. The book has the potential to undermine the confidence of capable students, as they fail to answer the many erroneous and misleading questions. If anything else existed, I would recommend that students avoid this book; as it is, students should only use it with the guidance of an experienced Latin teacher, who can also serve as copy editor.
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| A helpful and unique book for SAT preperations.I found this book very helpful in studying for the SAT I. Although, this book alone I doubt would get anyone very far. Instead I suggest reading it while studying another book, e.g. 10 Real SATs, so as that you can quickly look up and find a concise definition to a word you are unfamiliar with.
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| This book is a winner!To help my nephew prepare for the SAT, I bought several products: Math Shortcuts to Ace the SAT by Achievement Publishing, Cracking the SAT by Princeton Review, Kaplan's SAT Online training program (by far, the most expensive), and last-year's Kaplan SAT CD software. The best products by far were Cracking the SAT (Princeton Review) and Math Shortcuts to Ace the SAT. Math Shortcuts to Ace the SAT is a short, quick read of 34 tips with related examples. (By the way, don't take the title LITERALLY. You probably won't "ace" the SAT. It's a common practice to tout a book by giving it an ambitious title.) I didn't care for Kaplan's math format at all. Cracking the SAT (Princeton Review) was easier to understand and gave clearer tips to crack the hard problems, but Math Shortcuts... was easiest of all to learn. It's barely 100 pages, far less intimidating than the other books. I was able to read it and do all the examples in two evening sessions. I took a sample SAT myself and scored in the low to mid 600s in math and verbal, but I'd didn't have a clue how to solve some of the math questions. (By the way, "Cracking the SAT" (Princeton Review) explains why the harder questions are things you'll never see in high school math classes.) After reading Math Shortcuts, I retested on the last five of twenty-five questions on two sample math sections to see how I improved. As you know, the last questions are always the hardest. On these 10 hardest questions, before reading Math Shortcuts, I got 3 correct, 3 wrong, and 4 that I didn't attempt. After reading Math Shortcuts, I got 10 correct. I doubt that I could get a perfect score consistently, but the book obviously helped me. Since there are three math sections (not just two), my math score would probably have improved by over 100 points. (However, I took a lot of math in college and use it at work, so my results might not reflect that of the typical high school student.) My nephew confirmed that he liked Math Shortcuts to Ace the Sat best of all. After studying the book, he took a sample SAT and increased his math score 90 points. He found Kaplan's SAT online to be the least useful of all. In summary, I'd highly recommend Math Shortcuts to Ace the SAT by Achievement Publishing to improve SAT math scores. For verbal and overall study, I'd recommend Cracking the SAT by Princeton Review. It does a good job of explaining how and when to guess and how the SAT is scored. Its explanations of how crack analogies was clearer than Kaplan. Its grouping of common SAT vocabulary words into common categories was far superior to Kaplain's memorization approach. One final warning to parents. Don't expect your kids to do well on the SAT because they are good students. The SAT doesn't measure that. Get them some good study resources a few months before the test; otherwise, your student will be handicapped when he/she takes the SAT compared to students who have used good resources.
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