<p>Hey - I just bought grammatix and it seems that the advice is very good if you want around the ~700 range, but not much higher than that - it's very easy to get a couple questions wrong using his methods. What's your opinion? What book should I use for an 800 on CR?
Also, Mike Barret purports that studying from PR reading comprehension tests will not help you because you need his special way of analyzing the college board's psychology behind the questions - this is false, right? will princeton review's CR help you?</p>
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<p>no book guarantees you an 800, so you shouldn't be buying a book "for an 800," it all depends on you. That was seriously a stupid question you asked (no offense). You must be motivated and ready to dedicate yourself to studying continuously if you want to get that 800. (However an 800 on CR is extremely rare in most cases.)</p>
<p>"no book guarantees you an 800, so you shouldn't be buying a book "for an 800," it all depends on you. That was seriously a stupid question you asked (no offense). You must be motivated and ready to dedicate yourself to studying continuously if you want to get that 800. (However an 800 on CR is extremely rare in most cases.)"</p>
<p>I'm sorry you misunderstood my question - maybe next time before denouncing something as stupid you should think about it for a minute - I wasn't asking like the 50 newbies on this board "I never read a book in my life and took the PSAT and scored a 40 on CR - what's the magic book i can buy to raise it to an 800?" my question wasn't "what's the secret" -- my question was, in stark contrast to grammatix's book, which focuses on strategies for scoring in the 700 range, which books focus on strategies that focus on pulling one from teh 700->800 range? Has anyone tried Barron's or Kaplan's 2400? Or maybe Rocketreview is better? Thanks</p>
<p>I didn't misunderstand your question; I understood it perfectly. I thought you would have at least done your research on this board before asking this type of question. Only now in your second post do you ask "Has anyone tried Barron's or Kaplan's 2400?" There are a million posts on this board that talk about those books. Don't be all pompous with me now; you obviously have not looked around these sources. Good luck.</p>
<p>I've seen tons of comments of these books on this board but not any addressing the q - most of them are for ppl wanting to score in teh 2100's, read my post and you'll see what i'm talking about. Instead of insulting you could try helping...after all that's sort of the point of this board</p>
<p>All right people. Looks like we have little argument here. Let's try not to get serious (I'm not saying it is so don't hurt me :-P).</p>
<p>I agree with TruthfuLie on many things. First, there has been very large amount of people asking about Grammatix. There were some threads about just Grammatix, Grammatix vs. Gruber's, and Grammatix vs. RocketReview. I read almost everyone of them since I joined this forum. Despite their amounts, there wasn't really good tips or strategies because there isn't one. I score 560 on CR so I'm not expert. But I DO know that there exists no secret to high score on CR. I did look at Grammatix as well but although it seems to be good, it didn't work too well for me. The author says that you'll be able to get all questions with great accuracy but I missed 10 questions on reading passage. Only possible way is to practice. But even then, perfect score on CR is very hard to achieve even though "curve" is not so harsh as it is on math.</p>
<p>Fermat90, if you want to really score high score, I heard from this forum that Barron's 2400 is pretty good even though it doesn't have any practice test (please correct me if this is not correct; I do not own this book). Some people say RocketReview has decent strategy on CR. You can view this in online (yes it's possible; I saw it on some site) but I don't think it's that good as Grammatix. Grammatix is "more-to-point" (which is expression Xiggi used) but RocketReview still has some decent ones. Do not go with any book by Kaplan. Kaplan's questions do NOT resemble the real ones. I heard PR's 11 practice tests are good but I haven't seen them and it seems to be controversial book in this forum. As I said earlier, keep practicing. I do not know if there's an easy way. Like JIMMY@KILLARNEY said, try to merge several strategies and do many practices. That should help.</p>
<p>i just bought this $5 sparknotes mini-book called power tactics that focuses on the writing section.</p>
<p>if you're in the mid 600's, i think this book could really help because even though it only has a few practice questions, it's a nice brush up of a bunch of grammar rules for a low price.</p>
<p>FERMAT90, please stop asking the same question on multiple forums. If an answer is what you are looking for, you got it. If you arent happy with the answer, RESEARCH. Dont ask again.</p>
<p>I hate all these people who try for a 2400 on the sat, or a score very close to it. If you want to study, study. What you get is what you get. I dont think any college or scholarship program has a 2400 cutoff, or an 800 CR cutoff, so WHY WORK SO HARD TO GET IT. Use a book, take practice tests, do well. </p>
<p>One you break the high 2200's, your chances of being accepted to top schools is more dependant on ur grades, extra currics, aps, sat IIs, essays, and other application factors. NOT UR SAT's.</p>
<p>URGHHHHHH. I second the stupid question notion Fermat.</p>
<p>STOP. You have to understand. ANything that you miss between 700 - 800 is most likely stupid mistakes. You probably lowered it down to 2 choices. And you picked the wrong one. You have to learn to not make stupid mistakes. NO book can do this for you. I could be wrong, though, if you don't know vocab. (get barrons book if u need help in it). No advice for passages.</p>