The McGraw-Hill guide uses a method that really focuses on the reasoning skills that are the basis of the SAT I, AND ACTUALLY TEACHES YOU THOSE SKILLS!! Unless you have looked at all of these books as I have, you don't know how refeshing that is! The "College Hill Lesson" format is incredibly clear and easy to follow, and helps students to actually become better readers, writers and problems solvers. The vocabulary lessons are ingenious: not real cutesy, like in Up Your Score, or just a dictionary, like in Barron's and Gruber's-just read it and you'll see what I mean
