SAT Prep Books?

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So as a High School Junior I am taking the SAT. I was wondering what the good prepping books there are? I have been using the Official College Board Big Blue Book and I am pretty much finished with all those tests. I love that book because that company is the one that makes the actual SAT test. Have they made an updated version?

If not are there any other good books that I can use? I was thinking about the Kaplan, Barron's, or Princeton Review. I also want a book with a lot of practice tests (this is why I bought the Blue Book since it had a lot of tests).

Thank you so much in advance for all your responses!

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The College Board has two versions, but, if you don't already, get the second and updated version.
If you already have this one, don't get another book by the College Board. All the  other books by the College Board have the exact same tests as the second and updated version, except the first version has, like, seven tests that are exactly the same and the non-updated and non-revised second edition is messed up.

Barron's is a HORRIBLE choice. It makes the test harder than it needs to be. I could go on for days about how Barron's is a poor book for the SAT, but I'll just list one problem for each section. For Critical Reading, Barron's uses these weird words (such as also-ran... whatever that means) and sometimes uses Greek roots for its answers (I'm pretty sure I saw pectus as an answer once). For math, the College Board assures you that it will never test you on sines, cosines, and tangents; however, Barron's does. For Writing, the College Board doesn't test you on, for example, the difference between "effect" and "affect", but Barron's does that at least three times a section. For the essay, the College Board's prompts are very vague; Barron's prompts are very specific and actually require knowledge (I saw one that relates to science). This is why Barron's is a poor choice.

The others, like Princeton Review and Kaplan, are only mediocre.

I would do some of the practice questions of the College Board's book. Then, go back and do the tests again, if you haven't remembered the answers.

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