<p>CR: 600 M: 800 W: 600</p>
<p>From here what can I do to improve it? I already read silverturtle's guide and barron 2400 & barron writing workbook. From here on out, do you just practice constantly? </p>
<p>For reading, I'm sort of getting the hang of the whole "PICK THE ANSWER IF <em>ONLY</em> IT IS STATED". But I'm running out of CR passages. I already use all the barron, PR, and McGraw Hill in my library. I'm on my 4th test in BB. I'm not using past QAS because it is lacking explanations. What online material is also very good? </p>
<p>Okay, I think I'm done rambling. xD</p>
<p>can’t happen…
600 Reading to 800 reading isn’t really doable</p>
<p>^ Hah. It’s only not do-able if you let negative people like wavylays tell you that it isn’t. I’m not particularly in a position to be giving advice about reading scores (seeing as I am waiting to view my March SAT scores), but I just wanted to tell you not to give up.</p>
<p>What about shmoop? It’s a site like Sparknotes, and they offer an SAT course where you can access practice Q’s. I haven’t tried it but you might want to check it out; it’s a pretty good price for 6 months of access. And just keep reading everything you can, like newspapers and magazines, that are scholarly.</p>
<p>You can easily raise that writing score to an 800. On my first SAT, I missed 9 q’s (not too many) and got a 650 on the writing. So I cracked down on some practice tests and then used that method I told a while ago. Thats when I realized that the CB only tests like 10-12 (subj-verb, ambigious pronoun, parllellism, superlatives, tenses, diction) types of errors and once you get familiar with these errors and do enough practice tests you will easily get 800 in writing. Reading is a little bit harder but use the method I told you last time and it should work to get you to 700-750. Beyond that is just getting good pasages on test day.</p>
<p>I’ll look into Shmoop! Thanks missmbv</p>
<p>And eagles94, I’m currently using your method of solving questions concurrently with the explanations pulled up. I’d like to say that method really works! But for grammar, I sometime don’t see the idiomatic errors. Is it worth to remember 1000+ idioms?</p>
<p>^ Not 1000+, silly. Just the common ones should help; they frequent writing test questions and some students don’t recognize them. Doing that and some practice raised my Writing score from a 570 to a 720. You certainly can find more success than I did. Good luck!</p>
<p>What’s keeping your scores in the 600 range may be lack of exposure to well written advanced material.</p>
<p>When is the latest that you can retake the SAT? If it’s October or December then I encourage you to supplement your practice-based approach with a discipline of extensive reading, and not just any reading, but reading of literature, biography and history classics, newspapers such as the New York Times and magazines such as Atlantic. Don’t rush through the reading. Strive for depth. Also, perhaps you can find a way to “write” about what you read and have someone work with you on perfecting your writing.</p>
<p>If this makes sense to you, ask an English or History teacher in your school for his or her opinion on how to proceed.</p>
<p>Actually these are all practice tests, I haven’t taken the real SAT. </p>
<p>but yeah, what are some examples of historical reading?</p>
<p>thanks for the response!</p>
<p>@eagle94: I was just wondering if this is normal? Currently I’m doing a lot better because of your method and score around the high 600s in the BB tests (like I complete the 3 sections in a test and accumulate it into a score). But when I take QAS tests (no time restrictions), I do HORRIBLE! </p>
<p>Also is BB a LOT easier than QAS?</p>
<p>First off, I’d Louie to say that you’re off to a good start because you’re math score is an 800, which means you won’t even have to worry about the math section on the sat, unlike me. Keep on practicing for writing and always see if the sentence has something that the cb loves to test such as comparisons or parallelism. Soon, you’ll get the hang of it. Regarding idioms, if you feel like the sentence sounds weird or if you’ve never heard a word be used in a certain way, then think of that word in another sentence and compare it to how you would use it then. For example, if you have the sentence, “he is best known by his poignant novels,” then you must try to at least wonder if the word by actually fits. In this case, the sentence should be for his instead of by. For cr, just try to remember that cb makes the answer choices somewhat like a matching game. If there is a line ref question, then see if any of the words in the answer choice fits with the lines. This method works best when you are stuck between two answer choices. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>thank you 2400man. </p>
<p>PM me if you ever need math help. I’d love to help!</p>