The Barebones Guide is in part the product of our frustration with commercially available SAT Subject Test preparation materials—poorly written, irritatingly cheerful books offering unrealistic and unhelpful advice. As tutors, we spend a significant portion of our lives sifting through substandard test prep guides weeding out inappropriate questions so our students don't have to deal with them. That's great for our students, of course, but students preparing on their own have no way to avoid misleading information in their test prep books. The Barebones Guide series is our attempt to address this problem.

We were also motivated to create a book people would enjoy seeing on their bookshelves. While appearance is perhaps not the first thing you might look for in a test prep guide, we think that it is more enjoyable to study from a handsome book than from a not-so-handsome one. 

We hope you will enjoy reading our books as much as (and preferably more than) we enjoyed creating them.