<p>I got a 1540 on the old SAT (V: 760, M: 780), and plan to take the new one. As of lately, in the CB blue book tests, I have been getting 3-4 wrong, probably a 730-760. I would like to get this to be a 780+, if not an 800. I've been spending about 2 hours each day for past 2 months reading NYT (which I have been reading since 9th grade on a daily basis) and Time, as well as improving my vocab (I usually get perfect on sentence completion). I've heard of Grammatix's great CR help, but do you think it could really help me to cut down my mistakes to 0-2 in the CR section? Anyone else been in the same situation?</p>
<p>im not in the same situation but grammatrix did help me get about a 60+ after the first times I read it, from then on I think its just about practicing until u get the perfect score. so for ur answer grammatix and practice will definately help u</p>
<p>Grammatrix will help you if you don't already know the strategies that Grammatrix employs. In my opinion, the best way to improve is to practice more.</p>
<p>desiboi i think your at a stage where it is extremely difficult to improve your scores but ur scores are excellent so you dont have to worry
all you can do is practice, practice, practice to eliminate careless mistakes but grammatix is an excellent book and has the best advice on critical reading
by the way are you indian or pakistani
im pakistani myself :)</p>
<p>thanks for advice...btw, im indian</p>
<p>I'd say don't buy another strategy book like Grammatix. Stock up on Barron's and PR's Verbal workbooks, Kaplan's and Sparknotes's CR workbooks, etc. Just practice like crazy.</p>
<p>Practice on fake tests? Would that even help at all? I can see how practicing Barron's or Gruber's for Math makes sense to try to cover all possible question types and such, but for Verbal I am not so sure it would be beneficial to use synthetic material.</p>
<p>practice, review, practice, review, ......</p>
<p>Take practice tests, write down the questions you got wrong with your own explanations, make sure you fully understand why it was incorrect, 2 weeks or so before the test review your notebook that you'll store this info... That's the best way to get a high SAT score.</p>