<p>So no one actually memorize those vocabs really hard except bms2009 here?</p>
<p>I didn't study vocabulary that much because I knew most of the words anyway, but studying vocab is useful. Gruber's list was excellent. I learned a few words from that, but I didn't obsess over vocab, because most of the sentence completions didn't require that advanced a vocabulary--a 12th-grade level vocabulary would serve you well for sentence completions, and think about it like this--of all the vocab you study, only a few words will actually show up on the SAT, so wouldn't it be a better use of time to work on critical reading strategies that you can use for all the passages? It doesn't make sense to spend a disproportionally large amount of time studying something (vocab) that has a limited application (the hard sentence completions). That doesn't mean that you shouldn't study vocab, but you should work more on what will increase your score the most, according to common sense.</p>
<p>Problem is--I get all the passage questions right usually, and three-four of the sentence completions wrong</p>
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Are you someone who got a 2200+ on you SAT score? If so, tell us what you did to achieve that score?
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Easy: I got as many questions correct as possible.</p>
<p>oneeyeddeacon, I didn't mean it like that. :D</p>
<p>I never really studied on my own for the vocab section, but in AP lang our teacher would give us quizzes on the top 500 SAT words, so I guess that helped. If you read alot you can just pick up the vocab as you go, and I used to read a **** load.</p>
<p>Read a lot. And more. Not only will that boost your score on the CR a lot it will be immensely helpful on the writing (the improving sentences section in particular).</p>
<p>For math, do the damn tests. The math section is by far the most coachable; the math contained is very low level and the devil is in the phrasing of the questions and the nature of the choices.</p>
<p>i did memorise some words... around 25 or something? went through the rocket review list and figured i already knew most of them. so i just picked those which i did not know/was not very familiar with already. the key is that sometimes word completions don't just require you to know common meanings but lesser known ones as well. however if your vocab is poor my advice is to NOT memorise huge 300 word lists but rather read voraciously. something like a book a day if you're that free.</p>
<p>I took practice tests in the way that the xiggi's thread details and looked at some gruber's math strategies the summer before the test. From september-april I didn't really study anything from the SAT at all, then after that I took another practice test or two and studied vocab words then took the may test. I intended to read a lot, but I ended up not doing anything more than the required school reading. I was lazy.</p>
<p>I got a 2210. I could've done a lot better, but whatever. My worst score was math (710), so I probably should've brushed up on that more.</p>
<p>Oh, thanks again for all of you replies. My main concern is the critical reading section. I usually get like 2-3 wrong in each of the sentence completion section which sucks. Can some of you guys share how you approach these types of questions.</p>
<p>Do colleges still kind of disregard the writing section?</p>
<p>I doubt it because most colleges require the new sat.</p>
<p>wait, so Pennaspirant, if you're taking the sat again in two years, which is two years before you go to college, does that mean that you got a 2200 as a freshman?!</p>
<p>I definitely played around with this site a bit. Not really for SATs, but for fun. </p>
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<p>the online questions of the day are really really good if you do them a few months in advance, and actually look at the explainations... (that was all i really did to prepare, and i got a 2400 first sitting... vocab's huge though too, but i had some lit teachers who were beasts about vocab... but yeah, knowing the words helps too:) )</p>
<p>ekb...did you do them all in one sitting, or daily?</p>
<p>Having taken Latin definitely helped me with CR. That's probably not useful advice (but good news for those of you taking Latin!). </p>
<p>I used Sparknotes' online SAT prep. Worked well for me. Even if you're a good test taker, I'd recommend reading up on some of the "strategies" and taking some practice tests. It can't hurt to go in with a game plan.</p>
<p>lol guys.. more advices on which prepbooks u guys used and like.. what ur sched was.. not how u felt during the test jeez.</p>
<p>I personally think Math is easy, but it's also easy to make stupid/careless mistakes. I made two downright ridiculous mistakes during the May SAT and received a 750 ! Gosh i so hated myself :(
For Writing, for some reasons I always make mistakes at the Identify Errors part and ONLY at that part (talk about Achilles' heel). The questions that i missed were not even hard (two were of difficulty level 3 - ugh), and i didn't even run out of time! So i hired a private tutor (this guy from carleton who got 2400 four years ago) and after one hour (which cost me 50 bucks) he said "well, i really don't know why you made these mistakes. you're very strong!" Oh I made a grand total of 5 mistakes on the section</p>
<p>Good heaven! Anybody got any advice? Although I do think my main problem is i have to calm myself down during the test. I'm a very fast test-taker and i tend to get restless (like i will check my answers but dont put all my efforts in it and hence overlook obvious mistakes)</p>
<p>Practice makes perfect (or rather nearly perfect, in my case ;))</p>