<p>Thank you all for your great SAT prep advice. I got an 1120 on the PSAT and enrolled in the Kaplan course. Before attending the first class I found your site, cancelled Kaplan for a full refund and followed Xiggi's SAT prep advice . I took the SAT on 5/3 and got a 1250!! I was most pleased.</p>
<p>Now, I have finished most of the Blue book. I own (but have used very little) the Rocket Review Revolution and the Barron's SAT 2400.</p>
<p>I am completely off the rest of the week. I would love to get a 1350 so that I could get in-state tuition at the school of my choice. How can I use the remaining time to boost my score the most?</p>
<p>Work on writing section first as it is usually the easiest to improve on. (RR has some great tips for the essay and grammar).</p>
<p>The next section you should focus on is mathematics since it is the second easiest to improve on. (RR will help you a lot).</p>
<p>Critical Reading is the hardest so I would just focus on memorizing the vocabulary in Rocket Review and look over the strategies in it.</p>
<p>Make sure when you do a practice section or test that you always, always time yourself according to the regulated time.</p>
<p>Afterwards, make sure to look over the questions you got wrong and the ones you guessed and got right. Figure out why you missed them and how to get them right the next time.</p>
<p>Basically, Rocket Review and the CB book are the key to success.</p>
<p>math - just do as much practice problems as u can
CR - at this point, vocab is the only way to go
writing - look over grammer rules from review books</p>
<p>i just took a practice test in the cb book and got around 2000 avg. my worse subject was CR: i scored 18/19 on sentence completion but only 32/48 on passage-based reading.</p>
<p>what can i do during this week to boost my passage-based reading scores?</p>
<p>i'm going through rocket review but if there's anything that may be more effective then i'd like to try it.</p>
<p>JteH- PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE. since there's only one more week left before the June test, you can't really expect a 'miracle' and a huge point boost, but if you do practice and study some vocab, i'm sure it'll help. Also, reading more helps too. (For me, i first took it in jan and got 630 on CR.. now, after no specific SAt preparation -just AP Eng. prep- I'm getting ~690 on practice tests. Not super, but a huge improvement w/o practice, just from reading more literature)
Barrons is pretty good. Its considerably harder, but that's what makes it effective.</p>
<p>It's all about how you take the test.
I don't even read the passages. I go straight to the questions and then refer back and skim up to where i need to be and then read the sentence before and after. It works like a charm. Usually the questions are in chronological order so it is easy to do it this way.</p>
<p>One of the things I learned is that you must stay calm during the test. Don't stress over what you'll get. Just play it cool and it'll go fine. Do something fun friday. I'm going to my HS graduation which will get my mind off the sats. My noticed my practice test scores just fly up when I don't worry about what I will get.</p>
<p>I would continue to look over vocabulary. There are always new words to learn, and after all the studying that you do, there still may be words on the test that you do not know.</p>