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The Laugh Out Loud Guide: Ace the SAT Exam without Boring Yourself to Sleep! | 
| Author: Charles Horn
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0740777106
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1662
EAN: 9780740777103
ASIN: 0740777106
Publication Date: October 21, 2008
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Product Description
Written for the 1.8 million students who will take the SAT this year, this relatable study guide fuses the irreverent humor of The Onion with all the preparation prowess of The Official SAT Study Guide.Every year, almost 2 million students take the SAT exam, a test that will likely determine their college admissions, scholarship offers, and ultimately, what kind of cars they'll drive and how much money they'll make. To ensure that your child doesn't end up in a rusted-out Gremlin making less than $5.00 an hour, professional comedy writer and savant Charles Horn taps his talents to present an instructive test-taking tool that is as entertaining as it is educational. Using the same types of questions that appear on the actual exam, Horn rewrites his guide to make the questions timely, edgy, and fun. Instead of boring, politically correct textbook material, students will be engaged by questions covering stuff they actually might care about, like teen issues, Hollywood, and pop culture.
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Not Your Father's SAT Prep Guide-- It's Better and More Effective! December 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As an instructional designer who has created more than 200 successful corporate training programs, I can attest that Horn's book adheres to several "best practices" in adult learning: the material is deeply immersive, contextualized, and meaningful to the learner.
Rather than using tired old abstract examples that engage only the intellect of the learner but not the emotions, the author creates clever, humorous, pop-culture examples that allow the student to form powerful emotional connections with the material. When emotional connections are made, the learning points are remembered.
With "the Laugh Out Loud Guide: Ace the SAT Exam Without Boring Yourself to Sleep," Charles Horn has applied some of the same concepts to studying for the SAT that my cutting-edge corporate clients use in employee training: games, fun, humor and pop-culture scenarios. In short, he wise-cracks his way to an enhanced learning experience for the student.
Myriad research studies have proven that when people laugh while learning, they remember more. Why is that? Well, laughing lowers blood pressure, relaxes the nervous system, and reduces stress. Other studies have shown that when you are able to laugh at a problem, you are more likely to find a workable solution.
If you're serious about learning, laughing is a pre-requisite. If you're serious about stellar SAT scores, this book is a must.
Roll on the floor laughing. . . I didn't know it was possible from an SAT guide October 23, 2008
I found this while looking for an SAT guide for my nephew, but couldn't put it down myself. And then I showed a friend, and he wouldn't give it back as he flipped through it. At one question, he laughed for a full minute!
The author goes through all the different types of SAT questions, teaching the real information about the questions but with hilarious examples of each of the question types. Some of them sound like late night comedy jokes, which I guess makes sense since the author wrote for Leno. Math questions are also very funny. I didn't know this was even possible!
This book is a really fun way to review the types of questions and take a practice test before going on to taking all the practice SAT tests you can get your hands on. When I was taking the SAT, I read a review book and then took 6-10 practice tests and got 2340 out of 2400. As someone who (thankfully!) doesn't have to take the SAT anymore, I found this book really funny and think it could actually help motivate someone to get started with studying for the SAT. Prior to taking a zillion practice tests.
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