<p>know what to look for and the traps to avoid... and whether you go through the passage thoroughly (keepin time in mind) or skim through it, it won't really matter i guess</p>
<p>It would be hard to engage in the passage while keeping track of time</p>
<p>welll.. when i say thoroughly.. don't start trying to understand every detail. just read at ur pace and don't pause to try and understand sth tht 'looks' important. just read.. try to get the point of the essay, get the writer's drift</p>
<p>and when you get to the questions.. read the question.. and u sort of have an idea abt the answer, go to tht part, reread and confirm (u'll get better at this with practice only)</p>
<p>Thank you for your idea,I still have 7 days to try and nothing to lose :)</p>
<p>"like i said before, the only two books you should get are PR and kaplan. these are the only companies who really took the test and dissected it."</p>
<p>While the books are better than average, your statement is obviously incorrect. The companies never "took" the tests nor did they dissect them.</p>
<p>By "took," I think the OP meant that they simply used the real thing and dissected them, not that they actually had people writing the test...</p>
<p>Of course they have people taking the tests and analyzing them. I don't know about Kaplan, but Princeton Review has people taking every single SAT test and they publish their reports on their Web site:</p>
<p>The reports are a goldmine of info, very useful.</p>
<p>well now we consider that kaplan is a bigger company than pr...</p>
<p>...and your point is...? seriously. what is it? :-)</p>
<p>xiggi, i really meant that they have people writing the test itself. i know someone (Cornell gradute) who works in PR in Hong Kong. she says that they send people to take the test without sending scores. that person will write a report on the overall test and then they work out ways to "beat" it</p>