Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 1
July 26th, 2010 | 
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Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 1
In 2005, the SAT implemented major revisions, including: New reading sections Analogies removed Multiple-Choice Grammar and Usage Questions Modified Reading Questions. Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT addresses all of the revisions in the test without vocabulary studies. Students will benefit from: Focused prefix, suffix, and root practice Challenging inference exercises Detailed critical reading exercises New SAT-style writing and grammar exercises Recommended for grade 9 From the Publishe
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Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 3
In 2005, the SAT implemented major revisions, including: New reading sections Analogies removed Multiple-Choice Grammar and Usage Questions Modified Reading Questions. Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT addresses all of the revisions in the test without vocabulary studies. Students will benefit from: Focused prefix, suffix, and root practice Challenging inference exercises Detailed critical reading exercises New SAT-style writing and grammar exercises Recommended for grade 11 From the Publish
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Review by M. Flowers for Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 1
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Vocabulary Power Plus is a great idea, but the book is not complete. There’s no answer key for those ambiguous SAT skills passages! How do you know if your answer is correct? I like the connection to the SAT, but it would be nice to have more basic practice with the new word: sentence completion, true-false,and matching.
Review by Blues Rock Fan for Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 1
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Practice books for summer study are great, but without an answer guide, this well constructed book has dubious value. Several exercises provoked disagreement between three college educated teachers who reviewed the book with me as to the best possible answer. There not even a web citation of where teachers can procure answers.
Review by D. Tecklenburg for Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 1
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I am a professional writer with 20 years experience, national writing credits and 2 published books. I attempted to help my daughter with her homework and was amazed that this book presented questions that were subjective instead of objective and in some cases, I felt the “right” answers were just plain wrong. I am now actively campaigning to get the school district to drop this series.
Review by LARA for Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 1
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Just started writing and this book is what I have been looking for through every other book. It has every basic skill needed for improving in basic writing or even more advanced…
Review by Cathy for Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 1
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I purchased this textbook for my freshman son entering high school. I had to order in a hurry and it arrived timely, which I was very much appreciated.
Review by Cody Noone for Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT, Book 3
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As one of the vocabulary workbooks that I used in high school, I pretty much had no choice but to become familiar with this book. However, I enjoyed using this one very much. It contains a nice mix of everyday words, familiar words that one might already know (but might not be too sure of the definition) and words that one may not know but would find useful. It also contains roots, prefixes, and suffixes with explanations and examples. And, as with any vocabulary book, there are exercises to build skills with each of these. Following the vocabulary and roots/prefixes/suffixes exercises are SAT-prep exercises, which include writing prompts, comparing articles, simple analysis of texts, and grammar exercises. These are all pretty helpful and build skills pretty well.
One problem I’ve found, however, is the sample sentences, paragraphs, and prompts for the vocabulary words. The author of this book must have been either clinically depressed or disturbed, because some of these things are extremely pessimistic, depressing, and (at times) sadistic. Examples include paragraphs about a masochistic, sadistic criminal (as well as the tale of a man’s peccadillo); a criticism of an elitist fop who feels that everyone but himself is wrong, a man dying of thirst and starvation in the desert; a single mother who is in a worse situation than Tommy and Gina, about to get evicted from her apartment after losing her job; an essay on how technology is the root of all evil; a woman who isn’t at all moved by the death of her husband and immediately turns her affections to his brother; and a man living a bleak, depressing life working in an office (which may be very telling). As you can tell, the characters all live very happy existences. Honestly, I do not believe the author believes life to be anything but pain, sadness, and meaninglessness. I kept waiting for a paragraph glorifying Count Rugen.
However, after each of these paragraphs (fill-ins) is 15 sentence prompts, one for each vocabulary word. I had fun making up witty sentences and trying to match the author’s sadism and depression. So that makes up for the star this would’ve lost.
All-in-all, it’s a great book to use for SAT prep or even just learning new words. Now I’m going to find the author and give him a hug. He really seems to need one.