Hack the SAT: Strategies and Sneaky Shortcuts That Can Raise Your Score Hundreds of Points

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Product Description
A top SAT coachwhose high-scoring strategies earned him $300 an hour from Manhattans elite private-school students now makes his unique, proven secrets available to all.

Money can buy academic success, and the SAT is no exception. Harvard honors graduate Eliot Schrefer discovered this lucrative truth when he took a job at the nations most exclusive test-prep firm. He has helped hundreds of his clients raise their scores an average of 300 points and reel in admission to exclusive colleges. Now, in a guide that is as unique as his tricks, Schrefer brings his extraordinary pointers to every anxious applicant.

This user-friendly rescue manual delivers such scoreboosting features as:

a killer vocabulary list, including words the SAT has repeated for decades (and why reading Vanity Fair magazine is smart test prep)

cheap tricks to master the math section (surprise! you learned all you needed to know about SAT math by the eighth grade)

how to be a grammar genius without cracking another book (bonus: discover the tiny subset of grammar rules that is the SATs secret lover)

Schrefer writes in a snappy, conversational tone, dishing gossipy anecdotes about former clients while presenting advice not found in competing books. With a design that is as vibrant as a gamers virtual world, this is the ultimate weapon in the quest for test-score triumph.

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2 out of 5 stars

Mistake in Book Leaves Me Skeptical July 18, 2008
7 out of 11 found this review helpful

I was at the bookstore Monday looking at all the items available for SAT preparation. Eliot's book Hack the SAT was peeping through the five-inch Princeton Review and Kaplan books. After reading the title and seeing the author's professional background, I was convinced to buy it.

The tips and tricks given in the book are indeed useful. The biggest improvement for me was with critical reading. However, upon arriving to the math section, I was severely disappointed. On page 83, there was a mistake. It was a careless mistake, the kind of mistake that the author warned about a few pages before. What is the product of 108 and 5? I hope you said 540. And if you are reading the book and get to the aforementioned page, I hope you don't doubt yourself and begin to question your math skills. The book said, "E. 108x5=340," and it almost made me want to slit my wrists. I thought that I was losing it until I grabbed my calculator and punched it in.

Now, for me, I found the mistake to be unacceptable. You could label my statement as overreacting, but an SAT help book making a mistake like that should turn on some alarms in one's head.

Also, the book's language, in my opinion, feels a little childish. Of course, the author is trying to appeal to the reader (assuming the reader is a high school student) in a more approachable way. However, some might find the author's use of the term "wise-a**" to refer to the reader to be inappropriate.

Several of the book's tips are helpful. However, these mentioned reasons are more than enough to make me discredit the book. Judge the book for yourself. Next time you're at your local bookstore, glance through it and see if it is your style. I hope the author's successor to this book will be more careful.

2 out of 5 stars

Errors and Omissions July 22, 2008
6 out of 10 found this review helpful

First of all the PSAT is not a "free practice SAT" (page 24); it costs $13.00; just check the College Board. Incomplete info about the National Merit Scholarships as well.
Critical reading tips are good, but the section on grammar and vocabulary or so simplified that they are useless. Page 187 top rule ignors either/or or neither/nor construction. And the rule at the bottom of the page is a pronoun/antecedent rule as is another strangely worded something on page 191. And these are just for starters. State the rules in language that students know from school - not some attempt to be cool but very confusing. The glossary section does not give the part of speech nor use the word in a sentence. Also not mentioned is the SAT's tendency to use secondary definitions for common words like pedestrian which means common or ordinary. Overall the book is a huge disappointment both in its errors on easily accessed information like the PSAT and its pedestrian treatment of grammar rules.

5 out of 5 stars

wish i'd seen this before paying for a private tutor! July 24, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful

Unfortunately, my friend turned me on to this book after my parents blew a couple grand (at least) on a high priced SAT tutor. The information in this book was not only as accurate as that given by my tutor, but also was much easier to understand. The study tips really helped to build my confidence and were easy to remember. I would honestly recommend anyone thinking of paying a private tutor for help beating the system look at this book first - it's awesome!

5 out of 5 stars

Really helpful July 20, 2008
5 out of 10 found this review helpful

This book is short, in a good way. Just the information you need to get your score up, without all the filler of the long guides. High scorers will probably be the happiest with it, since there's a lot of advice in here that you don't see elsewhere. Definitely get this with the Official Guide to the SAT, though. It's got plenty of tips but not a lot of practice.

2 out of 5 stars

A Mixed Bag August 14, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

This book is truly a mixed bag. On one hand, it's funny, easy to read, and contains some smart tips. On the other hand, it contains very few examples and some embarrassing errors, which caused me to question its accuracy.

I applaud the author for writing a concise SAT guide that is accessible to the typical student. However, I would strongly advise readers to use this book in conjunction with the College Board's own preparation guides. On its own, this book does not provide adequate background material - or examples - for the average reader.

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