<p>What book or method is the best way to go from a low 600 to a high 600 or low 700 (or even mid to high 700) in 24 days (till the Dec SATs)?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I studied barrons 3500 word list in exactly 20 days. I didnt miss a single vocab this time...
for passages just DONT lose ur focus on the passage. immerse yourself FULLY in that passage. Breathe the passage. Just BE The passage. This may sound silly but i am being honest. Stay focused on that passage and dont get distracted. I went from a 560 to 710 to probably higher this time.</p>
<p>Sounds good.</p>
<p>The low 600s included getting about 3 to 5 wrong on vocabulary (just words that none of the lists I studied had).</p>
<p>I need help with the passages. What books are good for that?</p>
<p>It is possible. Before, I had a 59 on the PSAT last year. With four months of studying, I raised it to a 770 on my OCtober SAT. Got a 2330, first time.</p>
<p>What is your secret J. Shi?</p>
<p>Yeah. I'd like to know your secret. I worked my butt off to go from a 550 to a 610. Now I need to work my butt off again to go to a 680+.</p>
<p>is there an online website with barrons 3500 wd list?</p>
<p>^ Yes there is. Check in one of the SAT Forums here. There's a link someone.</p>
<p>Here it is:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.postech.ac.kr/%7Egla/gre/%5B/url%5D">http://www.postech.ac.kr/~gla/gre/</a></p>
<p>Enjoy ! ;)</p>
<p>i had a 46 on soph. psats</p>
<p>I did post some of my "secrets" on other posts (search my posts if you want to see them), but many other CCers denounced it and claimed "reading books" was all you needed to improve on the SAT. I'm afraid that is far from correct if you want to raise it above 750. </p>
<p>Active studying and concentration is the only way to improve your score. If you lived near me, I could give you my Critical Reading notes--the little "secrets" that I learned from continual practice and not from prep books.</p>
<p>I find the prep book advice for Critical Reading is too vague and simplistic to connect well with me. </p>
<p>Here is a short compendium of what I discovered:</p>
<p>1 All answers are explicitly stated in the passage--nothing is implied
2 If asked to infer something about the author, the author would have already said his/her opinion in the text through use of synonyms to the answer
3 Preview to questions before hand; don't read the questions, just skim for the line numbers that the questions ask--in the side bar of each passage, mark the line numbers that will be asked in the questions later on
5 After reading a paragraph, stop, quickly mentally review what you have read, summarizing that author's technique and point of view
6 If after reading a paragraph with line numbers marked (see rule 3), go to question and answer it--usually the questions are quite straight forward (the hard part is to not chose something not explicitly stated, but if you answer the question immediately, that shouldn't be a problem)
4 I usually have a hard time concentrating so I underline as I read-just to keep me focused-It doesn't waste anytime and I usually have about 2-3 minutes left to check my work.
5 Learn your mistakes--when you get a question wrong, don't go to the back of the book for answer explanations--try to solve the question yourself--this forces you to learn from your mistakes and this is how I developed so many more techniques than that of the prep books</p>
<p>Again, this is only a short synopsis of what I have learned; modify all you want. PM me if you have any questions.</p>
<p>And good luck.</p>
<p>^ I will try that. I hope it works for me too!</p>
<p>I went from a 550 to a 600. Is it realistically possible to jump to a 700+?</p>
<p>I think so. JShi did it.</p>
<p>I went from a 560 to 710 to PROBABLY a 750 this time in november.. thats about 200 points. All I did is study barrosn 3500 and I used the same things J. Shi did.</p>
<p>I went from 620 to 770 april to oct.. just did like 30 practice cr sections </p>
<p>Learned not to make mistakes, and tried to get every single problem right...</p>
<p>Never had a problem with vocab tho so i didn't look at any words.</p>
<p>Wow, Jshi. We have <em>exactly</em> the same methods. I.. I think I love you.</p>
<p>I am in no way a good English/reading student (in fact, far from it), but I was able get the 800 on the SAT critical reading portion. I feel that the entire portion is not really hard, but most students don't approach the questions correctly, and that's where they get screwed over. Here's what I did for the reading passages, and it worked!
1. Read the passages first. THEN go to the questions. I feel that if you read the questions first, you will be trying too hard when reading and not really getting the feeling of the passage as a whole.
2. After reading the question, try to reread the section of the excerpt that the question refers to, and think of an answer in your head, (without looking at the ANSWER CHOICES). (Basically answer the question in your OWN WORDS FIRST)
3. Then, match up the answer you thought up of in your head with the answer choice that most closely resembles it out of the 5 choices.
4. AT THE END, go back to the passage and MAKE SURE that the answer is IN THE PASSAGE. Probably for most of the questions on the reading comprehension, the ACTUAL ANSWER will be in the excerpt, maybe just in a different form! Many times, students choose a wrong answer, simply because they "feel" it is the right answer, when there is actually little evidence in the passage to support that answer.</p>
<p>Yes foolonthehill161, your advice is also as invaluable. I think I forgot to mention that you NEED to always predict your answer (based on passage support) and then look at answer choices.</p>