The Question of the Day is Taking (Another) Hiatus

A couple of days ago, I was doing PSAT prep with someone who happened to have a Gruber's book lying on his desk. Given that looking through commercially-produced SAT prep books and trashing their total, utter inaccuracy is one of my unofficial hobbies (yes, I do lead a very exciting life!), I promptly flipped to the Writing section and started scanning through the questions. Almost instantaneously, I had two reactions:

1) I was horrified.

There were maybe two or three questions that accurately reflected the material on a College Board-produced test. I could not even fathom the level of shock someone who had been prepping with that book would get when they encountered the actual test.

2) I was inspired

You see, about six months ago, when I was in the throes of desperately trying to finish The Ultimate Guide to SAT Grammar, I got the insane idea that I would also write a test book to accompany it. I got about 3/4 the way done with it before I realized that I just needed to focus on the guide if I wanted to get it done anytime in the next decade.

After I saw those Gruber's questions, though, I understood why people are so desperate for accurate prep material. After all, if you don't want to read through a whole huge book and just want to do lots and lots of practice material, you're pretty much stuck once you finish the Blue Book and the online course, although I have some issues with the latter. So why not just go ahead and publish my tests? Perhaps I flatter myself, but I'd like to think that they come closer to what the College Board is doing than just about anything out there. (I'll put up a preview asap so that you can judge for yourself.) At any rate, I KNOW they're closer than Gruber's!

So the bottom line is that for the next week or two, I'm just going to be trying to finish up my test book, and since there's a limit to how much SAT Writing material I can produce on a daily basis, I'm going to have to temporarily sacrifice the QOD. My apologies, but if you're looking for more Writing material to practice with, you may thank me eventually;)