As a test prep tutor, I hear lots of complaints about the SATs. The test is too long, the reading passages are the most boring things ever, and those huge test prep books—who could ever make it through all those pages and pages of long explanations and reviews in tiny print before you get to the practice tests?

Believe it or not, reading the review material in your test prep books can be very helpful. Since the books themselves don't do you any favors by making the material visually stimulating (the most you can hope for on a page are a few bullet points to break up chunks of text), it's up to you to make the important material stand out a little more. Here are a few ways to do so (assuming those test prep books belong to you and not the library, of course):