INTRODUCTION

A Brief History of This Book

ONE AFTERNOON IN THE ITHACA HIGH

SCHOOL CAFETERIA WAY BACK IN THE LATE

’80S

“This book really stinks,” Paul yawned as he pulled the crust off his sandwich,
scattering Miracle Whip all over page 12 of Barron’s SAT guide.
“Yeah, what’s the point of the SAT, anyway?”
“To cause us pain and suffering,” Manek mumbled.
“You know what’s wrong with these SAT review books?”
“No, what?” asked Larry.
“They’re all written by embalmed educators who were born before the
invention of the number 2 pencil, before the SAT itself, and before The Brady
Bunch went on the air.”
“If I wrote an SAT review book, it wouldn’t be so boring.”