<p>I know those two books have been mentioned a lot, but I haven't been able to see a clear answer.</p>
<p>I got mid-600s in both CR and writing and would like to raise them to 700s (as high as i can get them). </p>
<p>One of my new concern with Barron's is that I've looked at the Barron's CR workbook, and the sentence completion was very different from the real test. The real test kind of provide a lot of straight forward definition of the world that we are looking for, or it its two worlds , the sentence structure clearly showed the relationship(because of this, you really don't need 5000 new vocab). But the sentence completion in the Barron's CR workbook had very confusing sentence structure that would just not help people who are trying to practice to think the SAT way for sentence completion.</p>
<p>Anyways,
Please leave:
- Which one was better for you/ or the one you used if you only used one of them
- Short comment on the pro and con
- Approximately how much it helped you in terms of scoring</p>
<p>~bumpie~</p>
<p>Which is better for CR +Writing?</p>
<p>I did both. I went from never scoring above 700 in any practice tests to getting a 770 on the real thing. The more practice you can get the better. Also reading British literature and The Economist helped probably more than those workbook did.</p>
<p>Do both, its not like College board is saying "You many only choose one. Choose wisely."</p>
<p>well, is it helpful to have both
wont there be a lot of over lapping info?</p>
<p>Call me the “ThreadReviver”</p>
<p>When I was looking through both of those books, I thought that they were both kinda inadequate- the lists that they gave (of common prepositions, blahblahblah) were often rather incomplete (although taken together they were ok)</p>
<p>I think your best bet right now is to take practice test- if you want to improve your writing section then just do the writing sections to save time. The writing section, IMO, is the most coachable section because it’s just some grammar tricks (eg. “return back” is always incorrect) that you have to memorize. </p>
<p>CR is a little harder. Try a new strategy, maybe, of reading the passages. Often times, it’s not about actually not understanding the passage, but missing parts of it because you didn’t read thoroughly. </p>
<p>The blue collegeboard book is pretty good. Spend a few afternoons at the library, grab every version they have and just do the tests and review your answers. I got a 2400 in my first try, and I have to say that the best way to improve is to simply practice.</p>
<p>I’m sure he would’ve appreciated your advice three years ago.</p>