CR, WR help kindly appreciated.

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<p>Hey everybody... I'm a junior, sat for my first SAT in January, due to a stupid mistake I ended up scoring horribly. I didn't see a whole math section(the grid ins) and thus scored kinda sketchy on all the remaining sections.</p>

<p>For the math, I am not worried about scoring over 700 next time, I got a 650 when I missed all 10 grid-in questions.</p>

<p>As for the english( CR, WR) I really don't know where my problem is. I would really appreciate any tips/studying techniques for the CR/WR sections. I scored a 530 and 550 respectively, which is quite low. </p>

<p>thanks again!</p>

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<p>bump. teehee</p>

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<p>PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.</p>

<p>The Writing section is a joke. If you practice enough, you pretty much memorize the types of questions they ask you and the tricks they try to pull.
As for CR...just read a lot. Build your vocab. Buy practice books.</p>

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<p>Also, be more specific. What question types are you missing? Are you missing more Reading Comprehension than Sentence Completions? Identifying Sentence Errors, Improving Sentences, Essay, etc.?</p>

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<p>Reading comprehension I believe, I read the passages I'm down to 1-2 choices, and I always end up choosing the wrong one(apparently).</p>

<p>Sentence completion, not sure but I think my vocabulary is alright, I get 4-5/6 right on most practice tests ( per section)</p>

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<p>Just out of curiosity, how did you miss all 10 grid-ins? Did you forget to bubble them in or something?</p>

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<p>My answer sheet was on the booklet, so I got to question #8, if I recall correctly it was the question about the sweaters. So when I answered that, I looked over my answer sheet and saw the instructions for the Grid ins( which take over the whole page) and thus I thought it was the next section. So I was like, finished 8 questions in 4 minutes, time to review. So I spent the next 21 minutes reviewing 8 questions, then realized my stupid mistake.</p>

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<p>^^ Damn. At least you know that you got most, if not all, the MC questions right :)</p>

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<p>I give practice SATs, and the same thing happens to a student almost every time. I wonder if the answer sheet is just poorly designed, b/c I dont think they would do that intentionally.</p>

<p>In fact, one of the reasons I give practice SATs to my studs is so that they dont make those errors on the test. Maybe it is more prevalent than I thought?</p>

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<p>^ Yeah those answer sheets were so confusing because I never realized until the day of the test that they gave you more bubbles than you were to fill in. If that makes any sense...</p>