<p>hey can anyone suggest some books that can really help me in preparing for the SAT?
I 've read 1984-George Orwell and am currently reading a Hardy.</p>
<p>… To be honest, it’s too late. This skill is acquired over a long period of time and you can’t expect to pick it up just by reading advanced material.</p>
<p>Well, BartleDoo isn’t completely right. First of all, I don’t know when you are taking the test. I started preparing for SAT in 8th grade =p So if you are like me, and you are just starting, reading books like Lord of the Flies, Scarlet Letter, and other Classics will definitely help. It doesn’t hurt to read books, you know. It’s hard to improve on CR. I must agree with BartleDoo that the skill is definitely acquired over a long period of time, but i feel that what he said only applies to the Critical Reading section. On the Writing section, however, reading, even in a short amount of time, can improve your grammar, etc. At least for me, I noticed that through reading classics, both the multiple choice on Writing and essay improved. Because through reading, you will familiarize yourself with idiomatic prepositions. I came to US when I was ten, so i was never really familiar with those kind of stuff, like when to use with, to, of, etc. And also through reading, you can apply your knowledge of books on the essay.</p>
<p>BTW, I hope you know that College Board offers you a list of books to read =p check it out on the website</p>
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<p>and if you are reading Tess of the d’Urbervilles, it’s amazing =]</p>
<p>well i’m reading Far from the Madding Crowd.
And yes i think it’s too late for the CR section . I’m giving it in October so i don’t have any hope really.
If you recommend that book i’ll download it. it’s good that Classics are available for free!!.
I never was really into classics when i was young. i was into harry potter and books as such.
Well anyway thanks guys!!</p>
<p>and i’m sure u are allowed to post links.
they change those links into titles!!</p>
<p>good point~</p>
<p>I found all Dickens to be really helpful for the SAT. If you’re a girl and like love stories, you may like Charlotte Bronte or Jane Austen novels. If you’re like American colonial history stuff you can check out the Scarlet Letter or The Last of the Mohicans, which both have a lot of SAT vocab words. It all kind of depends on your personal taste. </p>
<p>I usually just browse through novels on Google Books, which is free and you can even read most of the classics in full text. I suggest you look up some of the Collegeboard 101 books on Google Books to see if any of them particularly appeals to you.</p>
<p>^Well, actually, I was and still am really into Harry Potter books! There’re some good SAT vocab in there as well, you know, like astute and protean:). However, like BartleDoo said, it’s hard to gain CR skills in two months just by reading novels alone. If you want to see major improvements in CR you should also try memorizing words in Princeton Review’s Hit Parade and Barrons’s. Sparknotes also has a SAT vocab hit list for free on its website. Good luck!</p>
<p>When you read, make sure you analyze – be active, not passive. How you read matters more than how much you read.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness by J. Conrad is a good book for learning vocab (“lugubrious drollery”- bet you don’t know what that is). It is also good for CR skills, as the writing is sometimes pretty dense. And writing skills, you can learn a ton of cool expressions from HofD (“as it were”, which I think is pretty cool, pops up a lot). Oh yeah, and HofD also has some solid material for answering essay questions. Just make sure to reread it.</p>
<p>^ i took a note of that.
And yeah i am reading words too. And the amazing thing i’ve found is that while reading 1984 i came across so many of those words that i gained a lot of cofidence in the context that they were used.
So i thought maybe reading novels does help a little.
And can you find the Twilight series online for free??? i’ve been searching and searching!!!</p>
<p>No, I don’t think Twilight available online for free; it’s still under copyright. You can read excerpts of it in variously places but not the whole text. There’re chapter-by-chapter summaries of the series at Twilight Lexicon, but reading them beforehand may ruin your experience of reading the books themselves. Also there’re chapters available from Midnight Sun on Stephanie Meyer’s website that you can download for free.</p>
<p>I absolutely love the Twilight series, of course, but I feel that reading it does not help much with SAT CR. If you’re looking for books that will provide you solely with the pleasure of reading then go right on ahead, it’s an extremely engaging book. However, if you’re thinking of rapidly improving of CR skills, like you had mentioned in the original post, then focus on classics like the Heart of Darkness first because those are charged with SAT words and offer a lot of good essay examples that may become more helpful during the SAT.</p>
<p>I think reading improves CR scores when someone has been reading regularly for years and the repetition of words and the context clues gradually adds to their vocabulary. It is not just read a few certain books and you will do better at CR, although some books are better to read than others for vocab building</p>
<p>is heart of darkness online for free…?
and could you guys suggest me some awesome free e-book downloading sites. I know just a few of them.</p>
<p>@xrcalico.</p>
<p>hey i found the twilight series. but i don’t know if it’s full or not.
since you’ve read it, could you check if it is complete?? i’ve been wanting to read this since i saw the movie but it’s too expensive for me to buy.</p>
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<p>Hey, CB has a list of 101 books that they recommend you read. You should check it out - it’s a very comprehensive list.</p>
<p>Oh, and yeah, it looks complete.</p>
<p>hey thanks , now i will read twilight besides a classic</p>