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    Perfect 800: SAT Math: Advanced Strategies for Top Students

    By Dan Celenti

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    Getting into the nation's most competitive universities requires more than a good SAT score, it requires a perfect score. Perfect 800: SAT Math gives advanced students the tools needed to master the SAT math test.

    Covering areas including arithmetic concepts; algebra; geometry; and additional topics such as probability and weighted average, the book offers exposure to a wide range of degrees of difficulty in a holistic approach that allows students to experience the "real thing," including the impact of time constraints on their performance. By emphasizing critical thinking and analytic skills over memorization and trial and error, this book ensures optimal usage of time and maximizes the pace of progress as students prepare for the all-important test. This book includes access to an online simulated test and an in-depth analysis tool that provides students with an assessment of their results and a list of recommendations for an improved performance. This unique book is a great companion to Perfect 800: SAT Verbal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9781593638276
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    Perfect 800: SAT Math: Advanced Strategies for Top Students
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    Dan Celenti

    Dan Celenti holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and has worked as a scientist, engineer, and educator (college professor and tutor). His wealth of experience--from conducting research in plasma physics and developing software for simulation of integrated circuits, to architecting voice and data communication networks--has enabled him to take a pragmatic and holistic approach to the study of math.

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    • 5/5
      Great educational book for high school kids. I recommend this book to all parents and high school kids to help with SATs. I voluntarily reviewed this book.
    • 2/5
      I feel badly for the author of this book because the College Board is in the process of doing huge overhaul, which may make this book invalid. However, I will review this book without that in mind, from the perspective of the current SATs. I am a math tutor who works with students studying for the SATs, so I am quite familiar with the questions on typical SATs. I received this book as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewer Program. Celenti did have a couple good ideas that I would like to keep in mind, like doing regular school homework in long sittings to build up one's concentration level, and waiting until the final step of the problem to use the calculator. But other than that, I just couldn't get into liking this book. I did not finish it, but I did read the first 65 pages and then reviewed the practice problem section.Although an updated edition, this book still feels out of date for the current SATs. It references the SAT I and SAT II tests, which are no longer labelled as such, and lists "travel agent" as a possible math-related job. I did not find the math explanation to be useful. Percents were explained in a confusing way, and Celenti explained what things are, but not as much how to use them. Using Euclid's algorithm to find GCDs is a classic approach but there are so many easier ways to do it, and the author was still using X instead of • for multiplication. I understand that the point of this book is to be extra challenging to help good students get an 800 (although I would question the line on the back of the book that says that "getting into the nation's most competitive universities requires more than a good SAT score - it requires a perfect score"), but lateral thinking puzzle/math problems are not the solution. I wish he had focussed more on challenging level problems, with good explanations. There are some problems that look typical of the SAT, but not enough.Additionally, the writing style/grammar issues in this book were distracting, if not confusing. For example: "G works twice faster than J" "any number that is not 0 raised to the power 0 is just 1. as a result, x^(-n) = 1/(x^n)." Section 3.1: "Integer"There is a collection of puzzle problems at the end, which could be used for recreation or as challenge problems for a student interested in playing with math. They are classics (monty hall, who shaves the barber, etc), but I would not use them while doing SAT prep.I gave this book two stars.
    • 4/5
      This SAT Math practice book would make a good addition to any student's arsenal. The book's sections and aims are clearly laid out and are arranged well for student use. Practice problems and strategies are differentiated for struggling and advanced students. I appreciated the critical thinking "mind game" problems and analysis and practice test answer breakdowns. As an English teacher, I would recommend this to my students as a book to check out for added help with the math portion.