<p>so guys, you probably guessed it. I am in the 1950 range.. all my scores are in the same range, 650ish, but my writing tends to be the best, and CR the lowest (although all sections are usually 10 pts apart).. At the moment, i am just taking a bunch of practice tests from PR and BB and reviewing them. Do you guys think that i am doing enough to increase all my sections by 50 points by the end of september? What should i be doing in CR to get that 650 to a 700... my vocab and passages are both okay, vocab, i sometimes miss 2-4, sometimes 0... so yah, passages are random.</p>
<p>Also, would someone please (if they dont mind) sum up the RR 14 grammar rules and post em, i think those might be able to get me up to that 700. btw essay writing i assume is 8.</p>
<p>Kind long SO here is goes...
my PSAT score was a 167 when I took it in the fall of my junior year. I was kinda depressed because there were more than like 20 people who qualified for national merit and tons who scored in the 180-190 range. That kinda got me motivated. So i looked over some practice book stuff before I went to a testing center and took a diagnostic test. i got a 1780. So i guess it went up a little right away. but then i set up a schedule for a study plan. Every saturday morning from 8-10 i would meet with a study group/tutor depending and would work over problem sets. In addition to this I also worked sections on my own. honestly though i didn't do many until the month before the June test. I ended up doing all the bluebook tests before i took it in June. I ALWAYS timed my sections and wouldn't allow myself extra time. I thought to myself you dnt get any during the test so why should I practice with more.
As for my vocab...i would pick a couple words and try to use them during the day. i know it sounds dorky but it worked pretty well. When i used them i would always remember the words.</p>
<p>During my saturdays i ended up going through CR and Math SAT strategies books. Every month I took another diagnostic test. My second test which was at the end of april I got a 1960. Then I took another at the end of may and got a 2040.
on the June SAT i ended up getting a 2100. </p>
<p>Most of my work was done friday nights and saturday mornings. It sucked not really having social friday nights but i just told myself it will only be 2 months of this and then it will all be over. At the end of May i cranked things up a bit and would do maybe two/three sections every other night night.(since i was only doing correct timing, that is only like 50-70 minutes every other night.) nothing insane by any means. It was just to keep my mind in SAT mode and to have it thinking like the SAT. I think people way way way way overanalyze when it comes to studying. Like it is more effective in my opinion to spread it out over time. do one section a night for 3 months</p>
<p>then again i think that a lot of it was a didn't care about the PSAT at all. and then I woke up and realized i was toying with my future so i kicked into gear.
I think that when someone pulls a score up pretty high it is more about getting familiar with the test than anything else. They always were capable of dgetting that score....they just had bad time management skills or didn't know what to expect</p>
<p>Seriously, the best way to study is with practice tests like you're doing. Keep getting those books of official tests, and just do all of them under a timed situation. Look over the answers and try to understand why you got the ones wrong that you did. Repeat this as many times as you can, and your score will go up dramaticly.</p>
<p>I don't know what "14 RR" actually means, but I know that the error types tested on the SAT Writing section are on: tenses, pronouns, modifiers, subject-verb agreement, parallelism, comparisons, and sometimes idiom, diction, number & agreement, and conjunctions.</p>
<p>Alrighty...so you're in the same dilemma as me: raising that CR score.
For the June SAT, I scored a 650 CR, which shocked me because from the January Test my reading score only imporved 20 points. I took every BB test, and most of the past released exams I also had taken before. Well anyway...</p>
<p>The fastest way to improve your CR is to know your vocab. If you're getting 2-4 vocab wrong...that's something you should aim to avoid by the end of summer. Get both Word Smart books and start memorizign them like there's no tomorrow. I did that for the June SAT, and i only got one sent com wrong...(which was something I was happy about...although I did no preparation for the passages). If you do fine in your passages like you always did...then if you get all thsoe vocab questions right, you'll get closer to a 700!! (For practice tests, I realized how important it was to not get vocab questions wrong...it raises your score at least 50 points)</p>