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Throughout my life thus fur:</p>
<p>Read books.
Read books.
Read more books.</p>
<p>Two weeks before the test:</p>
<p>Got hold of all the practice tests that I could. Did a test a day.</p>
<p>Got an 800.
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<p>Agreed, but I only took 3~ practice tests and did a few sections before the test.</p>
<p>@ race64:</p>
<p>It's really HOW you read them not what you read. You should keep an eye for tone, passage material, and trying not to interpret. Also highlight vocab etc etc.</p>
<p>lolilaughed- seems like you study a lot. Hows your luck workin out?</p>
<p>^ It's alright: my GPA was pretty screwed up last year and my EC too because I recently switched schools so I rely on SAT as my saving grace. 2300+, retaking in October because I made a few silly mistakes in CR and W</p>
<p>Oh wow. Very nice. Yeah me too kinda. My GPA is decent and ECs okay so SATs are all I have left to look better. I got 2030 first try without much so I'm hoping to get it close to yours. Hows your superscore?</p>
<p>I don't really like to super-score because it gives me a false sense of accomplishment. Plus, I don't really think that colleges actually take super-scoring seriously.</p>
<p>Well personally, I can see how superscore would seem incomplete. Its nice to see that high score in one shot. But colleges actually do take it seriously. Even for some merit scholarships, they ask for certain math and reading super score. Mostly its 1500.</p>
<p>Listening to Bob Marley everyday</p>
<p>Oh and, in advance, acknowledge the omnipotent power of luck.</p>
<p>I got an 800 on my CR and I didn't do any prep... memorizing vocab words? Please. The single easiest way to do well on CR is to read. People in my school spent way to much money and time buying books for vocabulary when what they should have been doing is renting books at the library that they enjoy and devouring them. In my eyes this kills two birds with one stone; you learn new words (you won't know the dictionary definition but you will have seen them in context which is all that you really need) and you learn how to read properly and pay attention for those "tricky" (lol) reading passages. Will people do this? No. They will say "But that is too time consuming I don't have time for that the SAT is in two weeks!" All I have to say to that is that I think reading a good book will be a much better use of those two weeks than memorizing thousands of vocab words by rote. Take my advice or don't but if you do maybe you'll see something like this when you get your scores: <a href="http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8728/24479473ff7.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8728/24479473ff7.jpg</a></p>
<p>^Nice scores.</p>
<p>Thats sick Phade. Take me under your wing sensei- and teach me how to kill two birds with single stone!</p>
<p>^Don't forget me. :D</p>
<p>phade's been reading for years probably. Now in 1 month, i think one is better of doing practice with CR sections than reading books. But if you got a year or two, go for it.</p>
<p>Nice job phade. That's probably how you did so well on the lit sat as well isnt it.</p>
<p>Practice the CR sections all day as long as you know you can handle the sentence completions. I'm just saying (and reading through the thread many people seem to agree) that reading books is the number one way to ace critical reading. If you've only got a month or two before the SAT pick up one of barnes and nobles "classics" on the cheap (pick one you think you will enjoy) and in between your timed practice tests read some of it, I think it will help. Now that I'm thinking about it I guess you could say I've been prepping for SAT CR my whole life because I've always been an avid reader. Maybe my advice is more appropriate to the freshman/sophmores who have some time still... Whatever reading is what worked for me that is all I can say.
Edit: I think something like this could really work wonders The</a> Marino Mission: One Girl, One Mission, One Thousand Words Don't necessarily pick that book but you get the idea.</p>
<p>^ Did you read just for SAT CR or for fun? And if you read for SAT CR, did you read in a different way than normally? </p>
<p>Like, did you keep in my possible SAT questions etc etc?</p>
<p>You want me to be realllly honest, OP?</p>
<p>Day 1: nothing
Day 2: nada
Day 3: zilch
et cetera
et cetera</p>
<p>= 760. it's just not that hard.</p>
<p>^ That's helpful. For the rest of us who aren't born with infinite wisdom...I guess we'll have to read ):</p>
<p>I wasn't born with infinite wisdom at all.</p>
<p>I firmly believe that people psych themselves out on the CR section. If you stay calm and collected, thinking logically (rather than trying to sift through the 1000s of vocab words you "memorized") you'll be fine.</p>
<p>But I definitely agree that reading is infinitely more beneficial than memorization.</p>
