Up Your Score SAT, 2018-2019 Edition The Underground Guide to Outsmarting The Test

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UP YOUR SCORE SAT The Underground Guide to Outsmarting the SAT by Larry Berger, Samantha Bindner, Michael Colton ...

TO OUR PARENTS Florence and Toby Berger Ellen and Clark Colton Virginia and Nariman Mistry Charline and Faust ...

Acknowledgments Many people have helped with Up Your Score. Our heartfelt thanks to: Chris Arp for his vast ...

CONTENTS Introduction A Brief History of This Book One Afternoon in the Ithaca High School Cafeteria ...

Reading Test Question Types Different Readers, Different Strategies A Very Serious Reading Passage A Truly ...

Chapter 6 The Not-So-Optional Essay Does Optional Really Mean Optional? Not What Is Said, but How It’s ...

Parting Words of Advice Who Are These People, Anyway? Whiz Kids Wanted ...

INTRODUCTION A Brief History of This Book ONE AFTERNOON IN THE ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA WAY BACK IN THE L ...

“I know what you mean. If I wrote an SAT review book, it would be erudite, yet not bombastic. It would ...

Michael’s revision of the book enabled a new generation of youngsters to follow in his footsteps at Harvard, ...

comments, tips, and totally-not-lame jokes in the margins of this new, shiny edition of Up Your Score ar ...

CHAPTER 1 About the SAT BEFORE WE BEGIN, ANY QUESTIONS? WHY DO I HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK IF I WANT TO ...

fungal disease for which they find a cure a week after no one comes to your funeral. Next questio ...

three of the SAT Subject Tests. They’re completely different and separate from the SAT, which tests general “sc ...

“In the 2000s, the United States government had interests in the Middle East.” As used in the above sentence, t ...

see that a math problem is TWO PARAGRAPHS long. Again, the bark here is worse than the bite. In some ...

There are also a few smaller changes that you need to know about. • You have much more time f ...

• The new score report will include a bunch of subscores. We’ll go over these on page 19. WOW, THA ...

Highest Possible Score How the Test Is Scored Evidence-Based Reading and Writing is worth up to 800 points, as is the ...