Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT 2009-2010 Edition




Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT 2009-2010 Edition

Larry Berger, Michael Colton, Manek Mistry, Paul Rossi
Workman Publishing Company


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About 1.5 students take the SATs every year and rely on their scores as they apply for admission to multiple colleges and universities. But with tuition costs at public universities rising 6 percent* each year and federal financing failing to keep pace, high school seniors are under increasing pressure to submit applications with flawless essays, good grades and stellar SAT scores in these competitive times.

Here to help is UP YOUR SCORE: The Underground Guide to the SAT, 2009-2010 Edition. Designed to ease the pain of test prep, UP YOUR SCORE-a guide written for students by students who have aced the SAT-provides a teaspoon full of sugar and sass to make the information go down smoothly.

Guest editors Ginger Jiang and Jarey Wang, who both scored perfect 2400s on their SATs and won Workman Publishing's national contest for the brightest high school seniors in the class of 2007, add their own expertise to this edition. They offer insider tips on everything from strategy and state-of-mind to the nuts-and-bolts information necessary to score high, including:
  • The Four Key Rules of the SAT: keeping track of your timing while taking the test can make all the difference. (p. 34)
  • Irreverent but effective mnemonic devices to learn 600 SAT-caliber vocabulary words. Example: "Eating 30 pounds of chocolate a day is a fatuous idea." (p. 60)
  • The 13 Rules of the Writing Test, including tips for identifying parallel constructions and "Totally Bogus Sight Questions." (p. 249)
  • The Guru's Guide to Guessing. "Disciple: To guess or not to guess? That is the question. Guru: Guess, my child, guess." (p. 283)
  • Tips on How to Concentrate before and during the test, including simple yoga poses and advice on sneaky snacking. (p. 292)
An iPod vocabulary download and a free diagnostic test from Prepme.com complete the package, making UP YOUR SCORE a hip, accessible handbook for students who are on the go, online and aiming to ace their SATs.

About the Guest Editors:
Since attaining their perfect SAT scores, Ginger Jiang and Jarey Wang were accepted to two of the nation's most prestigious colleges: Yale and Duke, respectively. In addition to being whiz kids, Ginger was the captain of her high school's fencing team and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and Jarey founded a club to promote multicultural awareness.


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