Barron's SAT 2400: Aiming for the Perfect Score

Barron's SAT 2400: Aiming for the Perfect Score is a 373-page book from Barron's, but it is not a complete study guide to the SAT. Instead, it is a companion to other study guides intended to train students to score as high as possible, with the goal being a perfect 2400 SAT score.

Published by Barron's Educational Series, Barron's SAT 2400: Aiming for the Perfect Score is unique among SAT prep material. Barron's has been preparing students for standardized tests of all varieties since 1941, with hundreds of thousands of SAT test-takers swearing by their Barron's SAT prep material.

Barron's SAT 2400, available for about $4 at bookstores and online retailers, is aimed at students who wants to increase their already-high SAT score to something near a perfect 2400. If a student scores a 2100 or higher their first time taking the SAT, Barron's SAT 2400 offers them the nudge they need to improve to a near-perfect 2400 score. A score higher than 2100 is like a golden ticket into the college of your choice, Ivy League included. The latest edition of Barron's study guide for overachieving SAT test-takers and college-bound students skips the everyday SAT test preparation drills and instead includes lots of unique advice and test-taking strategies to answer the SAT test's most difficult questions.

Barron's SAT 2400 offers their own breed of Critical Reading strategies that tackle both the long and short passages, an area of SAT prep ignored by most guides. The book also offers an intense review section to help students write a perfect-scoring SAT essay--meaning that students can expect to earn 12 out of 12 possible points on their handwritten essay SAT section. Barron's SAT 2400 also provides additional coaching in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, statistics, and math word problems that just isn't found in most SAT guides.

Where Barron's goes above and beyond is in the inclusion of really tough practice questions with explained answers in all SAT test areas: mathematics, critical reading, and writing. Barron's SAT 2400: Aiming for the Perfect Score also contains tough vocabulary lists and the more obscure math formulas along with techniques for memorizing them.

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While other SAT prep guides prepare students to do well on their SAT and SAT Subject Tests, this book contains Barron's best advice and training for scoring above the 90th percentile rank on your SAT exam.

Only one student in every 5,000 test takers will actually score a perfect 2400--pretty long odds indicating that a perfect score is a rare and difficult task. Stuffed with practice tests, expert advice, and full explanations for the answer keys, more students report improving their scores after reading Barron's SAT 2400: Aiming for the Perfect Score than any other book.

Barron's SAT 2400: Aiming for the Perfect Score is not intended for every SAT tester. Students who need more training in the basics of the SAT exam won't benefit much from the difficult questions and review material included in this book. This text put together by Barron's is aimed at students who are already scoring above or near the 90th percentile rank on practice exams and previous SAT tests. Combine this text with a collection of practice SAT exams like those put out by The College Board or Princeton Review, and the chances of improving a student's already-good SAT scores are high. Many online reviewers claim their SAT scores improved a hundred or more points after intensive study of the more difficult sample questions included in Barron's SAT 2400.

Gruber's also puts out a popular 2400 score book, but most students find the difficulty level of Gruber's materials unrealistic compared to questions actually asked on the SAT exam. Gruber's 2400 point SAT guidebook over prepares students for actual SAT exam questions, focusing on material not even covered on the mathematics portion, and containing such dense reading passages, the study time for Gruber's material is often much longer than time necessary for the actual SAT exam.

If a student has already scored in the 90th percentile but wants to improve their SAT performance even more, studying another study guide (even those published by The College Board or The Princeton Review) is not likely to train them to perform better on the SAT test's tougher questions. Barron's SAT 2400: Aiming for the Perfect Score is one of the only guides intended to push a student's SAT score near the perfect range.