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Title: Sentence completion is OK, but reading is absolutely disastrous
Review: Barron's has been accurate and helpful for brother, so it was only natural for him to buy this book for the SAT. This book divided sentence completion and reading comprehension into various groups for its difficulty. I found that the sentence completion questions are decent (not perfect, for no prep book can be exactly like the actual test). It was rather disappointing to see some questions were vague. For instance, it tested idioms which is not commonly seen in the actual test (in fact, I dont think it's seen at all). But the real disaster was the reading comprehension questions. The questions are not like the actual questions at all, and they are very subjective and ambiguous. If you get a few questions wrong using this book, dont worry. My brother got 3-4 questions wrong per passage in this book but got a 780 on the actual CR.
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