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. The practice tests are great too-a little bit harder than the real thing, as the description says, but I much prefer that to the alternative. Also, the tests "feel" much more like real test than any tests except for those in "Real SATs." For the first time in ten years, I'm excited to have a text that will actually work for my kids!! .
