SAT Sneak Attack: How Computer Geniuses Hack, Beat and Cheat America’s Most Feared Exam Paperback – March 17, 2014

Short and sweet, the author reveals the open secret on how to do well on the math portion of the SAT, and even the verbal (a little). It's all legal, but it takes some prep work on the student's part. Kinda unfair that not many know about this. Certainly those who can't afford the right calculator or don't have a teacher who teaches them how to work the system in their favor will end up with lower scores. For 99 cents, you really don't have anything to lose by reading this book to prep, except for a low SAT score of course.

At 22 pages, this reads more like a blog post or a short magazine article (and .99 for 22 pages is fairly ludicrous). There is not enough content to really dig deep into some of the ways takers can game the test, and for the most part the author centers the argument around calculators that can be modified to do math problems faster. No time is spent on any quantitative analysis of scores for students who have these kinds of modifications versus the scores of students who don't, so it's difficult to accurately judge if these supercalculaators are really advantages. Not to mention that the time spent learning how to use the new modifications could in fact just be spent studying for the test with likely a better result. Not much mentioned on the other sections of the test, so the title is pretty misleading overall. Could be interesting if there were more stats and specific information with more in-depth analysis, but otherwise a fluffy examination of something that's not really relevant to most test-takers.