<p>specific as possible plzzzzz</p>
<p>Please don't study ALL of those words! I got a 710 on my verbal without studying ANY vocab words! I absolutely love reading, and this saved me from having to study hundreds (or in your case, thousands) of words. One book you may want to read is "Up Your Score". There are strategies in the book that explain how you can eliminate answers for the analogies without knowing any of the words. Another thing to remember when you take the test is that Collegeboard does not want to offend any minorities. So when you read the section that discusses a minority, the correct answer will always involve a positive statement about the minority group.
ex. A) Women have become much more influential in political campaigns during the past few decades.
B) Women today have little influence on the outcome of elections.</p>
<p>Without reading the passage, you can assume A is the correct answer. Collegeboard would NEVER put something discriminatory on the SAT.
Learning tricks like this will help you increase your score without studying so many words.</p>
<p>BTW, doing those things that I just told you helped me increase my verbal score from a 610 to a 710. And I forgot, good luck! I hope you do well! :)</p>
<p>How much time until you take the test? If you have a bit more time, then I suggest that you buy one of those pocket dictionaries and look up words you find you don't know while reading and throughout the course of the day. You would be suprised how commonplace the words used on the sat really are.</p>
<p>thanks chelsea 2005 but i dont like reading. I need to do something to increase my score to 1550. I will take ur strategy, but not the advice about vocab. i dont read so i need to study them (and i am not a english speaker). Thanks a lot for the other stategies.</p>
<p>U r helpin lots of Test Takers. plz keep it goin.......</p>
<p>BUMP???(this doesn't let me write words lower than 10 charaters, so sry 4 extras)
LOL</p>
<p>any time nitinrao! i'm sorry that you don't like to read, but i'm sure that studying the vocab will help. in the book i mentioned, "up your score", there are a lot a fun ways to remember strange vocabulary. if memorizing vocab can be fun! :) anyway, check it out.</p>
<p>i read a lot so maybe my score imporvement is invalidated ......but all I used is the princetonreview CD......just get from whereever u can (i had to have mine copied) and do both sections.....it gives u tips and drills....and then a test.......really helpful
Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks chelsea (dont be sorry i dont like to read, lol) and heathcliff ( i will try to find it. i need all the help i could get)
any more suggesstions?i need all the help i could get</p>
<p>I need MAJOR help with the CR passage-based questions....</p>
<p>I read the passage first and then answer the questions (This method works the best for me). However, there are always 5 or 6 questions on the entire test that are iffy.... I see TWO possible "best" answers. In the end, these 5 or 6 questions (and usually 1-3) SC lower my score to the 640-680 range. Any comments on how all of you further narrow down the questions would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>przfer, pick the one that is more explicitly stated or most clearly inferred in the passage. if you need to do thinking that involves your own personal knowledge or experiences, nine times out of ten that's not going to be the correct answer. also, I've said this before, it's not about what you see as being the best answers, it's what cb wants you to think. If you go back and look at your wrong answers on practice tests and see cb's "right" answers, I think you will see a pattern between what's in the text, how the question is stated, and what the correct answer is. this will not only increase your ability to put down the right answer, it will also speed up your time. they're really all just the same question demanding the same reasoning skill.</p>
<p>wow thanks. do u have similarr tips?</p>
<p>anyone?????</p>
<p>umm i was really surprised when i got an 800 on my verbal, i didnt do any review at all except the SAT question of the day onColelgeboard, umm skip ANYTHING u can narrow down to 2 or 3 answers to save time for the critical reading, inthe reading go through and do all the vocab like questions first, then if u ahve time to read read, if nt dont, look atthe other questions and do whichever u can do fast fast then decide relook over analogies an dsentence completions, if u completly give up on those do the rest of critical reading and try ot read the passage</p>
<p>Well, I found that Princeton Review's WordSmart was VERY useful. I wouldn't say, however, that WordSmart alone increased my verbal score from 580 to 720. In addition to reading for pleasure, practice the critical reading portion of the Verbal test by doing a few actual ones from 10 Real SAT's. If you feel that you're capable of acing the Verbal with an 800, do what I did: have in mind to not skip any, but do so if you feel you must (I skipped three, and got 5 incorrect). Careless skipping only caused my score to decrease, it didn't help (580...). Otherwise, skip in moderation.</p>
<p>gr8 advice. keep it up guys.</p>
<p>anymore??????</p>
<p>My advice? Take the test, get the report, then fix your weak areas. If reading comprehension is your weak spot, as mine was, then practise by reading essays and answering comp questions on the clock. If your weak spot is analogies, study vocabulary. </p>
<p>You should also study the strategies outlined in the numberous books for writing the verbal. They are very important.</p>
<p>thank you!</p>