Help Needed Regarding SAT's!!

[Jawadamingodgil]

Hi everyone!,
I'm looking forward to apply at a university/college in the us this november, and I haven't taken the SAT yet.
I would like your advice on which book is the best in order to prepare for SAT I & SAT II(English & US History), also let me know how much time of studying would be enough(eg. a month).
I also heard that people conduct classes for SAT's, are they any good?

Thanks!

 

[salman09]

visit the college board website i think u can get all the info there and accrdng to my info its a college level test for students in US for example if one want to take admission in college he must pass the SAT test and there are two parts of SAT Sat 1 and Sat 2 u must confrm tht i m nt sure
once i asked a student who was preparing for the sat test tht how much time did u needed to prepare for the test and he answrd me probably a year and man i was like tht :O :crying:

 

[bongas]

depends on ur education skills, if u are good at whtever that u are appearing for....i think a month or two are more than enuf !

 

[salman09]

yup depend upon ur intelligence the more intelligent u are the more quickly u pick the course

 

[Jawadamingodgil]

Thanks!...I prepare for boardz the last night and get average grades ^_^(A or B), so I think 2-3 months should be good, and any ideas about the study material?, I'm confused there are soo many books, and also about the classes are they any good?

 

[Ali250]

The Official SAT Study Guide by CollegeBoard is the best book by far. It's got 10 practice tests that should keep you busy for a while. You can also find torrents for CB's paid online resource, which'll give you another 6 test to practice from. And for test-taking tips and advice, Princeton Review is pretty good.

P.S. Barron's is a piece of crap.

 

[Jawadamingodgil]

The Official SAT Study Guide by CollegeBoard is the best book by far. It's got 10 practice tests that should keep you busy for a while. You can also find torrents for CB's paid online resource, which'll give you another 6 test to practice from. And for test-taking tips and advice, Princeton Review is pretty good.

P.S. Barron's is a piece of crap.

Thanks!, btw why is barron's crappy?, have you taken the test, also any idea about the classes?

 

[Ali250]

Yeah I gave the test in Dec. Classes don't help much, I took a demo class from Anees Hussain and all they did was hand me a printed copy of the test in the official sat study guide, so it's pretty useless IMO.

The questions in Barron's are quite different from the type that you get in the test. The book I mentioned is made by CollegeBoard itself so it's the closest you can get.

 

[Spiderman3000]

P.S. Barron's is a piece of crap.

Barrons is NOT crap. They may give you questions which are down right tedious to do but they also have some tricky questions and their material I think is quite good(chemistry esp.)

 

[YamHEad]

I prepared from barrons and got 2290

 

[Ali250]

Barrons is NOT crap. They may give you questions which are down right tedious to do but they also have some tricky questions and their material I think is quite good(chemistry esp.)

.....
you do realize we're talking about SAT I here? -__-

I prepared for SAT II from Barron's too, it's good in that department, not so much for I though.

[MENTION=47940]YamHEad[/MENTION]: In SAT I?

 

[YamHEad]

Sat 2

 

[Ali250]

The OP's talking about SAT I....

 

[hassaan123]

@OP i am also in the same situation. Havent yet given SAT but planning to give soon i.e around october so i can apply in nov for the states. Btw we only need SAT1 right ?

 

[Ali250]

^ Depends on the university, some do require 2 SAT II subjects as well.

 

[Jawadamingodgil]

Thanks alot for all the help everyone!, I'm also going to give the SAT II(world history & us history) exams, any idea about those?
and do you know any good colleges/universities in the us for computer engineering/science except the famous ones(Harvard, Stanford, Boston university, Carnegie Mellon, Yale, Columbia) ?

 

[Ali250]

University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne.
University of Michigan
Georgia Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Purdue University
....and many more. These are just off the top of my head. All are in the top 100 range worldwide so they're hard to get into, but not completely impossible like the Ivies, UC Berkley and Caltech.

 

[Jawadamingodgil]

Thanks but you didn't answer my other question , also are you from the us?

 

[Ali250]

Nope. I had major financial constraints so I could only apply to the Ivies (which offer full 100% tuition grants), and as expected, I couldn't get in

About the second question, why give history? If you'll apply to CS/CE, all unis that require SAT II will ask for at least Physics and Maths (level I or II), some may even require a third subject (which you could give any, but chem would be better).

 

[Jawadamingodgil]

yes but some don't require specific subs, they only want two more tests, and I'm in a really say weird/awkward/rare condition regarding my studies :/, would love to discuss it with you if you don't mind, but not here, pm or im?