<p>Hi All ,
This Thread is inspired by "Biggest Improvment Sat Stories"
Since most people needs help in specific sections, thus we should have a different Thread for each Section!</p>
<p>this is for the Critical Reading Section ONLY~</p>
<p>Follow Something like this</p>
<p>Time taken first time - score (Example: PSAT Sophmore- 570)
Time taken second time - score (Example: Jan SAT Junior-640)
(for the time taken. try to use things relative to the year of high school so people have and idea of how far into school you are)</p>
<p>Please include as detailed as possible on how you studied, which part did you improve the most, and what you thought was helpful. More info, more appreciated!</p>
<p>October SAT Junior Year: 600
March SAT Junior Year: 650</p>
<p>the first time i took it, I did not studying. 2nd time around, I did a few practice tests, but thats about it. I am actually going to study a lot for the October test and try to get 700+, so I will let you know if it happens!</p>
<p>The point of the post is to post your stories, your scores are only used to see how long of a way your journey have come. please don't ONLY post your scores because thats not really helping anyone and you are better off posting a "Chance me" thread if you really want people to see your score.</p>
<p>If you have no story at all, then don't post your scores.</p>
<p>Same as other sections kinda. Went over lessons in Blue Book and took 6 complete practice tests, going over wrong answers. Also took a CC poster's idea and made post it notes for hundreds of vocab words on a list. I think I googled an SAT word list which had 10 lists of 100 words and I went through putting the ones I wasn't familiar with on post it notes. I went around my move the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before the test until I knew them all.</p>
<p>DS's strategy: Analyze the errors! Read more carefully, and realize you can underline/mark up the text. He did practice sections (just reading) from the Blue Book and spent serious time dissecting them. He also had a soph year English teacher who made them do a lot of analysis, which helped a lot. He is an avid reader, so he never did vocab. The error analysis really helped a lot. </p>
<p>Improvement: soph PSAT to junior PSAT: 140 points. He had a respectable score to begin with, but his efforts paid off big time.</p>
<p>It' great that you are going to MIT Physics08, but if you read the first post, you were suppose to post STORIES of HOW YOU improved, not just what your scores are.... by posting only your scores. you are NOT helping ANYONE</p>
<p>You posted this in the other thread. Why don't you just do a search on CC? This topic has come up numerous times. I'm sure what my methods were and how I improved aren't different than what posters above me and a thousand other threads on improving CR have suggested. I don't think anyone can give you too much more advice other than reading more thought-provoking texts, reviewing vocab, practicing and being mentally acute for the SAT on test day.</p>
<p>In grade 8, I randomly took the SAT and I got a 520 in CR. Then, at the end of grade 9, I took a timed practice test, and I got a 690 in CR. I don't really consider this an improvement since grade 8 is waaaayyyy too early to take the SAT.</p>
<p>i just want to make a collection of people's improvement and methods so others can see it too
like what kind of method helped people increase their score by approximately certain amount
and this also help with people of different starting level</p>
<p>again congratz on MIT ( it's my dream school )</p>
<p>lol, well english is not my first language and my junior year was my first year in the US. and it was my worst section (i got 640 in the math section just so u can compare how bad i am in CR). i didn't study much either, since i knew i would still get some chances to take it again. i bought kaplan's prep book and studied the strategies and not much of the vocab. well i got somewhat disappointed with myself. ima get serious now.</p>
<p>Sophomore PSAT - 600
Junior PSAT, Junior SAT - 780 and 800</p>
<p>I think the key to to CR is skim, don't read - and budget your time wisely. Other than that, practice! practice! practice! Go through all of the Blue Book and pay attention to the "gist" of the questions. SAT CR becomes almost predictable after awhile. I tutor SAT to more than 40 students and I teach my students to go straight to the questions first in long passages and then go back to the passage and skim the passage for answers. This conserves time and helps focus one's thoughts on the "big picture" of the passage, rather than getting lost in the details. You don't need to know EVERY single detail in the passage to get a great score. Timing is key, so utilize it effectively.</p>