<p>Anyone willing to share how they got 750+ and what they did to improve? Its rather strange b/c I get 700+ on the Practice Blue book Q's and got a 70 on the PSAT Writing but ended up with a 640 on the May sat with a 9 essay.... which was also my lowest section. (I had 1440/1660 on math and CR)</p>
<p>out of interest, whats the difference between the verbal and writing sections/which is which?</p>
<p>i think that verbal was what they called Critical reading before. now it's called CR and the other section is called writing. i think so</p>
<p>i didn't do the old sat...when you're doing the paper, which bits are CR, which are WR?</p>
<p>CR is the boring one with the passages (you'll know which one it is if you find yourself dozing off in the middle of it)</p>
<p>W is the essay the 10 minute section in the end of the test and the 35 grammar questions section.</p>
<p>oh i see. i just found out that one of the math sections doesn't even count. what's that about?</p>
<p>doesn't have to be math. one of the ten sections is "experimental". the CB use it try out new types of questions. it doesn't count in yur score but you have to do good on all of the sections because you won't be able to tell the difference between them.</p>
<p>(how long have you been studying for the SAT? you seem new at the whole thing)</p>
<p>i'm british...took it on june 3rd with no preparation. if i do badly i might have to retake it in october :(</p>
<p>the thing that bugged me was that the test centre i was at didn't say '...and GO!' or anything at the start of each section - they kinda just let you assume you had to start. so with the essay i sat there for like 3 minutes before i realised everyone else had started. thus - i didn't quite finish the essay. thus, i probably won't do great.</p>
<p>sounds bad!! you have 3 months to prepare for the test and hopefully you'll do better.</p>
<p>(you know, i was in the IGCSE for a year (you're british so i'm sure you've heard of ot) it was horrible. full of cool stuff to learn but incredibly hard work as well!!)</p>
<p>ah. now in england the GCSE (of which the IGCSE is just the same but taken in other countries) is considered pretty easy at the age of 16 - it gets a lot more advanced at A-level (taken at 18).</p>
<p>i think the systems basically go: england - work hard till 18, relax at uni.
US - have it easy (although most of you don't seem to!), then work your ass off at uni.</p>
<p>it's HHAARRDD!! everyone I know took 5 A levels (and cased univs to raise admission requirements here) and knew I couldn't keep up with them so i switched to the American Diploma</p>
<p>everyone in other countries seems to do much more work than in england! virtually noone here takes more than 3/4 A levels, but it seems the norm in other countries to do 5. do these people all get As in all of them? when you say admission requirememts go up, do you mean for universities in egypt?</p>
<p>yes. it's the norm to take 5 here. the people who bother to take them usually get As and Bs. (here it's calculated into a percentage and there is no limit; the highest ever was 132 %) but after what I saw with the O levels i couldn't continue in the system.
and yes, the admission reqs in Egyptian unis.</p>