<p>So every single day I read classical books like Wuthering Heights, The Idiot, or Anna Karenina for about 3 or so hours. During this time I write down any words that I don't know and then write down their meaning in a separate copybook later on.
I also repeat the words I saw in practice tests or the unknown words that I wrote down before while reading.
I think that it is helping me to prepare for the SAT by practicing daily like this, but is it really? I don't do practice tests everyday. Maybe only once a week.
I also do the Daily SAT question everyday.
I want to get a really high score, but I feel like I should change the way I practice daily for it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Should I perhaps do tests everyday, maybe like, not the whole 3:45, but just a section at a time? And write an essay everyday?</p>
<p>Or perhaps I am doing it right?
I just feel like I could do better, or maybe that I'm not doing something.</p>
<p>By the way, I only have the Collegeboard Blue book. I don't know what to get though when I run out of their 10 tests, cause I've read that people who have achieved perfect scores did more than 10, maybe around 25, or even 40!</p>
<p>This seems like a pretty good strategy. Learning more vocabulary will help your score if you don’t usually get all of the sentence completions correct. </p>
<p>Doing a practice test a week sounds reasonable. After you run out of college board blue book tests, you can search for tests that the CB has released. You can also pay for the online course, which will offer 10 more practice tests.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking, what are you current scores? People can give better advice and more specific things to study if you say you are going from X score to Y score.</p>
<p>Really? it does? Haha I’m glad then.
Yes, but I am concerned if I am learning the RIGHT vocabulary, because I just write down every single word that I don’t know and then learn and repeat them, but there is no guarantee that the words could appear on the SAT, or even be useful, which is why I’m concerned… </p>
<p>I see. I will do it once a week then : ) (Honestly I would go crazy if I were to do it everyday, but maybe some people can manage that?)
I have the online course. I’ll use the extra 10 tests they have then.
But then, 10 tests in the college board book + 10 tests online… = only 20 tests.
I feel like I should need more. Or maybe not? </p>
<p>My current scores are VERY average.
Reading : 570
Writing : 530
Math : 500</p>
<p>I want to score at least around 700 in each! And I have until February to do that.</p>
<p>As far as vocabulary goes, I have a similar method. Whenever I’m reading - be that SAT material, a novel, or an online article - I note every word I don’t know and look it up later. Before looking up the word, however, I try to come up with the definition. Another helpful tip I have would be to make a “special” list for words which you have seen more than once, but have trouble remembering, and study specifically from that one. I do this, and it’s dramatically improved my vocabulary. It’s benefitted me not only on sentence completion, but passage based readings as well. If you don’t have a solid vocabulary base, reading the passages can be terrifying (more than I was aware of, anyway), while sometimes you can get by well enough on sentence completion.</p>