The Insider's Essential Guide to SAT Critical Reading and Vocabulary

Larry Krieger is a renowned author and educator whose books and workshops have helped thousands of students achieve outstanding scores on the SAT. In the past year an amazing 10 of his students achieved perfect scores while another 21 achieved scores between 2250 and 2370. Larry has long recognized that students do not need to memorize dictionary-like lists of vocabulary words. As the author of the first three editions of the Direct Hits vocabulary books, Larry pioneered the technique of using pop culture to illustrate difficult SAT words.

SAT Critical Reading and Vocabulary takes Larry's innovative techniques to a new level. Larry provides students with a variety of illustrative examples that includes pop culture, student anecdotes, and insider tips drawn from actual test examples. In addition, Larry shows students how to use their vocabulary to answer sentence completion and passage-based questions. The result is a unique book that will help students achieve high Critical Reading scores.

• 15 chapters devoted to defining and illustrating 600 key SAT vocabulary words
• 7 chapters devoted to discussing sentence completion questions
• 170 practice sentence completion questions keyed to the 15 vocabulary chapters
• 10 chapters devoted to discussing critical reading passages and questions including chapters on the characteristics of right and wrong answers
• Test tips and anecdotes by Austin-based SAT tutor and author Christian Heath
• An Appendix that contains the Top 30 SAT roots