<p>For the november SAT what are the chances of raising these scores:</p>
<p>CR - 510
Math - 650
Writing - 590
Essay: 7</p>
<p>to </p>
<p>CR: 630
Math- 700
Writing - 650</p>
<p>I'm so stumped in critical reading, I know I can raise my writing if my essay is better and for math the difficult questions usually flip me off. Any tips/suggestions? I'll listen to anything thats reasonable.</p>
<p>Well yes I have went to prep before and it sucked, the teachers weren’t knowledgeable and I didn’t get anything out of it except practice. I think you are right I have to do something different with the critical reading in order to succeed. I think I will try to break the context as simple as possible, I mean there is no real strategy to acing this thing its all about the commitment and passion like you said.</p>
<p>My advise is a bit different from the above poster. With your scores, there is room for increasing your scores in Math and Writing, which are far easier than increasing your score in CR. For Writing, you need to dedicate yourself to learn all kinds of grammar rules. Read Silverturtle’s guide and Sparknotes seven deadly screw-ups. I feel like I recommend these guides to everyone, but these are truly the key to good Writing score. It worked for me(I’m a consistent 780 above scorer now), and I can almost guarantee that they will work for you as well. For math, you really have to solve many problem as you can. SAT math repeats itself. Expose yourself to myriads of problems. You will understand how to approach them. If you’re just looking at a increase in total score, I suggest you attack these two sections first.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip Jeffery but I’ve ran out of Math problems to do in the blue book, I’ve been redoing problems in the blue book and college board practice test booklets is that a good idea?</p>
<p>I raised my scores 310 points in 6 weeks. I’d say it’s doable. I read Silverturtle’s and Sparknotes’ guides for writing and took about 15 practice tests. For math I was striving for the 800 from my 660. It didn’t really take that long for me. I seemed to be getting consistent 800s after 2 weeks of practice. Critical reading is still my bane of my score. I was just like you with a 500 in critical reading, but through 20 or so practice tests I’ve raised it to around 660. Learn Direct Hits for vocab and just READ. You can do it.</p>
<p>I recommend going through different CC threads/posts about math problems. You can also buy the PR SAT prep book. I find PR math problems to be very similar to those from CB.</p>
<p>If you truly work yourself to the limit, I think you can pull off 2200+ like anyone else. SAT can be mastered through practice (I’m not really the SAT master, but I can tell you that I improved significantly from numerous practices).</p>
<p>I didn’t mention this in the previous post.
Yes, that is a great idea. You should know at least 1~2 different approaches for the harder problems. If you can find those different methods to attack the problems, you can be assured that you “truly” understand the problems. After a while, you’ll get a feel of what CB math section tests you on. It’s really repetitive. You should be able to know “which is the most effective way of attacking this question” at a glance of a question.</p>
<p>I feel like I’m stalking your threads because we’re on the same quest, lol!! </p>
<p>You know the book called Rocket Review Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT and the PSAT by Adam Robinson? Well persons have been raving about how it helped them raise their SAT score by 200+, so if you could get your hand on it maybe it might help.</p>
<p>I’m unable to get it cuz I’m an international student, but luckily someone on CC sent me a link to a website with a few pages from the book. These pages only pertain to the Critical Reading Section. </p>
<p>[The</a> SAT Reading Comprehension: Basic Principles - FamilyEducation.com](<a href=“http://school.familyeducation.com/college-prep/sat/39914.html?page=1&detoured=1]The”>SAT Critical Reading Tips)</p>
<p>hope it helps!!!</p>
<p>memorize direct hits (400 words) and read silverturtle’s guide</p>
<p>It’s not hard to raise your writing score to 800. And same I also have the question of how to increase my reading score…</p>
<p>Thanks for all the helpful tips guys, I’ve been reading direct hits and i’ve been getting a lot more sentence completions right. @DMAO Lol yep I guess we are on the same quest, and thanks for much for the link its good.</p>