<p>Please don’t mind reading a little background story.</p>
<p>Your score is really similar to the score I had in the very beginning.
I clearly remember the result of my first SAT during my first SAT class at ASI:</p>
<p>Reading: 400 Math: 710 Writing: 450 (w/o essay but teacher told me to give myself an 8)</p>
<p>A year after, I took a one-month prep course at the Princeton Review.
My diagnostic test score was:</p>
<p>Reading: 450 Writing: 390 (Essay: 0)</p>
<p>Haha this shows how bad ASI was. (And me too of course :()
However, and more importantly, after 10 days I took a mid-term test and got:</p>
<p>Reading: 490 Writing: 580 (Essay: 7)</p>
<p>After another 10 days, I got a 610 in writing. I took the real test afterwards and got 600. (I have a way higher score now)</p>
<p>With few little tips and an intense preparation, I think you can push up your score to a 600 within a few days if you work hard.</p>
<p>Princeton Review “assumes” that the readers are average. The Joe Bloggs strategy (is it a strategy?) won’t work if you have a good arsenal of vocabs. PR is that they try to teach shortcuts instead of real technique. They even call their guide “Cracking the SAT” as if the SAT can be aced with a certain password. However, for writing, (and for people with a score of 600 or below) this is actually the right description. The writing section is so repetitive and using the Process of Elimination, it’s actually possible to eliminate like three answers at once. Well, here are some of those overly-used traps and patterns.</p>
<p>Key patterns of the SAT writing section:</p>
<p>Just as Sharjeel92 and a dumb boy reached the final 100m track, he realized that he forgot to do take a practice SAT test that day and started running towards a different direction.</p>
<p>Who’s he? The subject is “Sharjeel92 and a dumb boy” so it’s impossible to find out who ‘he’ is. Usually, to correct this error, he is replaced with the person’s name.
This is the ambigious case. Always make sure it’s possible to identify who he, she or it is. If there is no clue, then the sentence is wrong.</p>
<p>SAT does not like Passive voice.</p>
<p>The solution was brought BY the committee < The committee brought the solution.</p>
<p>Active, Active, Active!!!</p>
<p>The angry student screamed and dancing like a crazy monkey because he only got accepted into HYPSM.</p>
<p>What’s the first verb? “screamed”
The second verb? “dancing”
The sentence is wrong. This type of trap is very common in SAT.
The verbs have to be parallel to each other.</p>
<p>He was eating and drinking (Correct)
She burped and farted (Correct, grammatically at least)
The workers contended and destroying the main building (Incorrect)
It should be “contended and destroyed”</p>
<p>So what is the correct version of the original sentence?</p>
<p>The angry student screamed and danced like a crazy monkey because he only got accepted into HYPSM.</p>
<p>Knowing that he is going to ace the SAT, it was Sharjeel92, who walked confidently into the testing center.</p>
<p>Knowing that he is going to ace the SAT,
Driving at the periphery of the city with her brand new Ferrari,
Running down the streets with her score report,</p>
<p>All these sentences DESCRIBE an action of the person.
<em>The person will be the first word after the comma</em></p>
<p>Knowing that he is going to ace the SAT, Sharjeel92 walked confidently into the testing center. <– Correct version.</p>
<p>Driving at the periphery of the city with her brand new Ferrari, [Sophie] enjoyed her last moments joy before a truck drove over the new car.</p>
<p>Lots of people know that the writing section has such a clear pattern (way more lucid than the other sections). But you have to realize it yourself that the writing section deals with the same few traps on every test. You will go “Oh, that’s it” if you FEEL the pattern for the first time. </p>
<p>Now, try to apply the rules I’ve told you! They are not many, but those aren’t yours yet. You will have to be the one to find out the pattern to really OWN the rules and make them your property. Take an open-book test (Yes, don’t time and open ALL of your prep books to help you) Take out a small notepad and write down the rules I’ve told you. Your job now is to go through test and REVIEW every single answer. Review the correct answers to confirm that you have found the pattern and the incorrect answers to find a new pattern. Your score wasn’t 390 like mine. In about one and a half month, I’ve managed to push my score to the high 600s and then to the 700s. I wasn’t in a hurry and I didn’t work EXTREMELY hard. But if you do work EXTREMELY hard, I think your score may enter the 700s range and, hopefully, get few steps closer to your dream university. :)</p>