People are telling me that "Princeton's Review for the SAT doesn't have REAL SAT Questions?"?

Question

Hey guys,

People are telling me that Princeton Review doesn't have real SAT Questions... is that true or false?

Thanks

Answer 1

those questions are similar to the real tests, not the same.

Answer 2

You are correct that the questions that appear in the Princeton Review books for the SAT aren't real, recycled SAT questions written by the test-writers.



But, as someone who has been involved in creating materials for The Princeton Review, I can tell you that we work extremely hard to create questions that mimic the real questions you are likely to encounter. We do everything short of plagiarizing and violating the copyright of the test creators. This includes studying every released question, using advanced analysis techniques to spot trends in the questions and answers, and testing each proposed question on real students to see the validity of each question (just like the real test-writers do).



I would safely wager that The Princeton Review spends more time and money than any other company on making sure that the materials are as accurate as possible.



And, yes, "The Official SAT Study Guide" (the current version of the 10 Real SAT's) has actually previously administered questions, but I'll warn you that those are 5 years old at this point and many of the questions are actually recycled themselves from the Old SAT (before it changed in 2005). On the other hand, the Princeton Review materials are updated every year.

Answer 3

No review course will offer you "real" SAT questions since that is cheating. Any course that does is lying. The questions given to you by Princeton Review, Kaplan, Testtakers, etc are written by the creators of the course. They do, however, replicate the type of questions and the material that will be covered on the SAT. If you want read SAT question get the 10 Real SAT's book from the College Board.