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Princeton Review Publishing's $50 Inside the SAT offers SAT test practice questions and test-taking strategies that will noticeably improve a student's score. The three most popular SAT test preparation programs include Inside the SAT, the Learning Co's $60 Score Builder for the SAT and Kaplan InterActive's $30 SAT Road Trip 96. Inside the SAT offers the best combination of practice questions, test-taking strategies and an interesting interface. While practice questions are important for improving SAT scores, Inside the SAT's advice on how to take the test is invaluable. Tips include how to narrow multiple-choice questions down, how to determine the possible range for math questions and how to avoid structural traps found in the test. The application's interface is fun, irreverent and easy to navigate. Kaplan's SAT Road Trip 96 offers good test-taking tips and its price is lower than the other application, but its interface is dull. The Learning Co's Score Builder for the SAT is less effective.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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New CD-ROM titles plug you into music, teach about the bomb
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Microsoft's $39.95 Music Central 96 music education software provides users with a vast amount of information on over 60,000 music recordings and 8,000 musicians, from the early 1900s to contemporary artists. Music Central offers 5,000 album and song reviews, thousands of musician photos, insightful biographies, numerous video clips and 50 song excerpts. Information retrieval and printing functions are easily managed via Music Central's interface, and the program provides suggested links to bands a user might enjoy. Corbis' $49.99 Critical Mass: America's Race to Build the Atomic Bomb educational software provides a detailed and entertaining examination of the figures and events surrounding the US' Manhattan Project. Critical Mass includes biographies of the primary scientists, a 3D tour of the Los Alamos laboratories and a neutral approach to event-commentary.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1996
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'Who Built America' reveals real potential of electronic learning
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Voyager Co's $99 'Who Built America?' book on CD-ROM is one of the best educational multimedia programs available. It covers the history of the US from 1876 to 1914 and is based on a book by the same name. The history is told from the more interesting viewpoint of average Americans, such as farmers and laborers. Video and audio clips are well integrated in the program, along with primary documents, songs and pictures. Actual audio of speeches and video of early movies are also included in the book. Users can make notes in margins or on a pop-up notepad, and they can move freely to other areas in the program. Printing is also an option, but there are limitations. 'Who Built America' is intended for use on a Macintosh computer with at least 4Mbytes of memory.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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