- ISBN13: 9780764136467
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Eight up-to-date model tests with answers and explanations are similar in format, length, and subject matter to the most recently given SAT Subject Tests in U.S. History. A detailed review covers all major topics, including Colonial America, the Revolutionary War, the new republic, territorial expansion, the Mexican War, the slavery issue and Civil War, America’s industrial development, the two world wars and the emergence of the United States in the twentieth cen… More >>
Barron’s SAT Subject Test in U.S. History
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#1 by K. Gasimzade on February 4, 2010 - 10:08 am
This preparation book is really good. It contains various explanation mediums that help students understand better and ace any answer.
Try it
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Austin O. Mckenzie on February 4, 2010 - 11:54 am
i havent completely looked at the book but it seems to have a well organized plan of teaching/reviewing material
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Paul Yi on February 4, 2010 - 1:48 pm
I think two reviewers ahead of me reflect my strongest criticisms of this terrible and troubling test prep book. But I’ll add another point:
I think it’s important that test prep books strongly emulate and resemble the wording, logic, and focus of College Board questions. This book’s test questions are too personalized in the voice and grammatic stylings (awful grammar as noted above) of the authors. The little things are huge, glaring distractions. I hate the fact that the practice questions refer to the United States as “our”. College Board would never do anything like that. Also note that on page 439, Asians are referred to as “oriental”. A progressive association like the College Board would also never allow that.
Go with the REA book. You wont be disappointed.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by D. DeMartini on February 4, 2010 - 3:18 pm
I am going to be taking the SAT 2 for US History this Saturday, and I grabbed this book from my school library to study (fortunately I did not buy it myself). I have almost completed my year of AP US History, I have taken the AP US History Exam, and I used an REA AP US History prep book during the school year. I have seen the College Board tests for APUSH for this year (obviously) as well as past years.
Although I have yet to take the SAT 2 for US History, I am certain that the questions this book asks in the practice tests and the material covered for review are irrelevant and ridiculous (not to mention scattered with numerous typos as another reviewer pointed out). For instance, I took the diagnostic test, and only three questions into the exam, it gives you a random graph saying “Questions 3-4: Refer to the following graph” (6); however, questions three and four are ENTIRELY unrelated, and the graph is never referred to in any way. Later in the test, the book provides you with a map of Europe, labeling different countries with letters, and then asks three questions referring to the map. You must answer questions about which nation provided air bases for the US in 1991 and which Middle Eastern country had been opposed by most of the Arab world based on your knowledge of Europe’s geography mostly.
Because I already have the REA AP prep book, I did not plan on using the review material (only the practice tests) from this Barron’s Book. I skimmed through it, though, and the material is far out there and random, mentioning names of people like the engineer in charge of building the Panama Canal.
Buy the College Board books for some REAL practice tests and get a different prep book for review of material.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Lucy Dydo on February 4, 2010 - 3:48 pm
This is, perhaps, the most terrible editing I have ever come across in a test preparation book. The amount of errors I’ve noticed thus far (both grammatical and factual – [some of the most glaring, "Amendment XVII - Prohibition of the Manufacture, Sale, and Transportation of Intoxicating Beverages" (110); the three references to "de la Warre" as "de la Waffe" in the first chapter; "Oueen Ann's War" (39); and innumerable grammatical errors]) is appalling. Having read a great deal of this book already, I’ve begun to wonder what I’ve ‘unlearned’ by doing so.
The atrocities this book commits against American history so moves me to purchase a new, unmarred copy and break out my red pens. Do you think Barron’s will release the 13th edition under my name if I send it their way?
Rating: 1 / 5