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Title: Simon's Saga for the SAT I Verbal by Philip Geer ISBN: 0-7641-2200-2 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: 08 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESY' --si son extranjeros no compren esto
Comment: No doubt this book is great for improving your vocabulary, but i have never read a cheesier plot with cheesier characters. I feel that if i ever have the chance to meet Axel, Simon and his imbecile girlfriend-that-pretends-like-she-is-some-great-intellectual-but-puts-up-with-her-primitive-boyfriend-that-thinks-hes-cassanova IT WOULD BE TO PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE! The language (though the words are necessary) is out of place in a story that seems like it was cut out from a girls magazine and mixed together with a couple of big words. The result is conversation that is unreal. The characters are incredibly shallow -especially Simon who looks like a girls worst nightmare- and talk in ways that make you think theyre trying really hard to impress you with their vocabulary. I realize this is fiction, but I cant stand such unlikeable characters! I have read plenty of books that are great for picking up new words, and in which the vocabulary fits quite naturally with the plot and general feeling of the story, but I sincerely could care less whether they find a girlfriend for Axel or not, or how many girls Simon can succesfully flirt with in a day. And Simons girlfriend is your typical feminist girl that would love everyone to think shes a new-age-woman but puts up with the kind of boyfriend that has space in his brain for little but girls. There is nothing substancial in anything Simon says, except the "big words" he constantly uses; every character is supossed to be insanely smart, though their definition of a smart person seems to be the one who has the most facts and impeccable definitions crammed into his brain. All in all I found it insipid and I dont think I will finish it.
Rating: 5
Summary: You wont get a better book than this for a Standardized Test
Comment: I used to fear the long list of words which are given in any other books for Standardized Test. Then I came around this Simon's Saga and I was amazed to see the way it presented the long list of words by some enjoying episodes. With this book its really fun to study the long list of words and memorizing it is not a difficulty. Moreover it contains only those words which appear more frequently in the Standardized Tests. I recommend everybody preparing for Standardized test to buy this book and enjoy memorizing the most frequent words for Standardized Tests with some really funny episodes. The excersises in this book are also really helpfull for practise
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for enhacing vocabulary
Comment: English is a second-language for me. Obviously, if the verbal standarized test section is difficult for native speakers, it is even worse for international students whose primary languge is not English.
I find this book to be very user-friendly, it is not a list of words with definitions that a student must memorize as in Princeton's or Barron's verbal SAT review. Simon's Saga uses those difficult words in everyday context so that the reader slowly incorporates those words to his/her vocabulary and to understand the context in which they can be used. Standarized test do not test if you remember the definition of a word, rather it tests your ability to play with the words. This book, therefore, is suited for that purpose.
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Title: The Ring of McAllister: A Score-Raising Mystery Featuring 1,000 Must-Know SAT Vocabulary Words by Robert Marantz ISBN: 0743235207 Publisher: Kaplan Press Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Tooth and Nail: A Novel Approach to the New SAT by Charles Harrington Elster, Joseph Elliot ISBN: 0156013827 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 12 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: 10 Real SATs, Third Edition by The College Board ISBN: 0874477050 Publisher: College Board Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Wizard of Oz Vocabulary Builder by Mark Phillips ISBN: 0972743901 Publisher: A. J. Cornell Publications Pub. Date: 13 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Vocabulary Cartoons II: Building an Educated Vocabulary With Sight and Sound Memory AIDS by Sam Burchers, Max Burchers, Bryan Burchers ISBN: 0965242269 Publisher: New Monic Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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