<p>a buoyant score of 550 isn't very encouraging, as you might have guessed. </p>
<p>Memorizing vocab is out of the question for me because:
a) I have no time
b) I always forget everything on test day.</p>
<p>To this day I still don't know if it's better to read the passage then solve or read the questions then the passage.</p>
<p>I get bored pretty quickly because the passages are, well, boring. They always get passages about things no one in his/her right mind would ever consider reading.</p>
<p>I solve all the questions; thus getting about half of them wrong.</p>
<p>People around me keep telling me how "it's an excellent score!", "Don't work on it; you'll never get higher!". I don't know if they're right or if they turned out to be right because I listened to them lol. Anyway, I need to raise it - fast!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and if I choose to read the whole passage, should I skim or read word by word?</p>
<p>P.S. I'm not looking for an 800 on the reading section. All I want is an increase of around 50 or 60 points.
Also, I can't so any long term stuff (I'm reading books, but I dount that it'll do anything now).</p>
<p>Stuck-on-1700, please condone naidu's obviously time-consuming advice, and focus more on taking old and even practice exams. If you only need help on the critical, than just do that section for all those exams. But I guarantee you, that will raise your score at least 60 points, but probably more. And actually doing this, writing and reading stuff, will also be less boring and more permanent.</p>
<p>I raised my cr 60 points from the first time to the second time i took it, without really doing anything.</p>
<p>How many times have you taken the SAT? If you have only taken it once, then chances are you will improve just out of it taking it again--worked for me.</p>
<p>don't get me started on how many times I took it. It's embarrassing just to say.
I think it's more than enough to know that I've reached my limit. Which is why I'm skeptical about the whole thing.</p>
<p>naidu, I think 100 words a day is aiming too high. I guess I an try 50 at the begining.</p>
<p>Stuck-on-1700, I don't know if you're like me, but it is alot easier for me to use flashcards to remember a large amount of vocabulary. I found a site where you can print out all these vocab words and just cut and fold on the lines (<a href="http://quizlet.com/tag.php?tag=sat)%5B/url%5D">http://quizlet.com/tag.php?tag=sat)</a>, but I didn't want to waste all my printers ink. Instead, I went on amazon.com and found sat flash cards. Mine haven't come yet so i'll tell you how they work out when they do.</p>
<p>Edit: I wouldn't do anymore then 25 a day MAX, no matter when your test is. It is better to learn less words and remember a good amount of them then learn a ton of words and forget most of them. (this is if they are all new words)</p>
<p>the barron's book has flashcards at the end. I tried to use them but then got confused becasue I didn't know what to do with them (i.e. I didn't know if I should put them in different piles; the ones I knew by heart, the ones that needed more practice and the ones I didn't know at all)</p>
<p>You go through the ones you don't know looking at the def. and guessing the word, if you get it wrong it goes in one pile, if you are right it goes in the other. Then go through the wrong pile looking at the words and guessing their definitions, for the ones you get right they go in the right pile, the ones you get wrong go in the wrong pile. You continue this until you get everything in the right pile, then go through it again and again until you don't get anything wrong anymore (both by guessing a words def. and guessing a defs. word). Thats how I do it atleast.</p>
<p>that sounds doable. Do wordlists differ from one book to another? because the baron's list just depresses me (both in the layout of the words and in the words themselves - I find that I know less than half of the words in each word list).</p>