Books in BARRON'S HOW TO PREPARE series

The author presents a self-assessment writing test and five practice SAT II Writing Tests with explained answers for multiple-choice questions and performance evaluation charts for written essays. There is also a self-scoring guide that reflects SAT II standards for the essay questions. Additional features include a grammar and punctuation review plus advice on style and usage. This updated edition contains more than two dozen student essays, each of them analyzed and scored. And for students taking the new-format SAT, which replaces the old SAT II beginning in Spring 2005, this manual offers detailed advice and practice for the SAT's all-new essay-writing component.

Students preparing to take the Advanced Placement Examination in World History will find two full-length model exams with answer keys plus a chronological review of world history in this valuable manual. Also featured is advice on answering the comparative essay question, as well as strategies for answering the AP exam's multiple-choice and document-based questions. The book's subject review divides world history into the following five categories: Foundations of World Civilization (4000 B.C.-1000 A.D.); World Cultures Maturing (1000-1450); World Cultures Interacting (1450-1750); World Cultures in the Modern Era (1750-1914); and The Twentieth Century and Contemporary World Cultures (1914-2005).

This totally new test preparation manual with compact discs reflects the most recent tests and test format. The manual presents eight practice tests with answers, four French tests and four others with listening comprehension sections, which are on the compact discs. The tests are similar in structure and degree of difficulty to actual SAT II exams in French. The manual also features a general review of French grammar and vocabulary, additional practice-and-review quizzes with answers, and reading comprehension exercises.

This complete test prep package includes a full-length manual with ten up-to-date practice tests and a compact disk to replace the old tape cassette and containing the tests' listening comprehension sections plus additional practice and review. The manual's practice tests have all questions answered and explained. The book's other features include grammar and vocabulary reviews and reading comprehension passages.