<p>So I currently have a few tests on hand, that I have no idea what year they were given in, but I could tell they are really old due to its 30 min CR sections with a weird kind of thing that looks like </p>
<p>SNDKJSDNKSDN : SJKDNKSDKJS:: </p>
<p>which i assume are analogies.. so my question is, would doing really old CR sections still help? Are passage reading questions similar, are vocab from SC and analogies still relevant?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Avoid the analogies. If you have exhausted all the official tests for the new SAT, using old ones for their relevant parts is probably alright. I haven’t looked any of them, though, so you might want to ask xiggi; he is probably familiar with whether they are similar enough to be beneficial.</p>
<p>I havent exhausted ALL new ones yet but I just happened to have a couple old ones in hand… I am going to avoid the analogies as I have no idea how to do them anyways but they also provides a plethora of vocab words? Are those words potential vocab words?</p>
<p>The older tests that appeared in the 8RS, and various editions of the 10RS are still excellent. As you noted, there are different elements on both reading and math. </p>
<p>Just make sure that the tests you actually have are REAL SAT tests. The only tests that were worse than the current crop of synthetic tests from Kaplan, PR, or Barron’s were the older tests published by the same companies.</p>
<p>I find the old tests from the 80s and 90s to be very good study resources for math prep. The 5-choice questions are still fine although they may not cover all the topics (there is an increased emphasis now on functions, for example). For those looking to score 700+, an excellent prep method is to do the hard questions from these tests sans calculator (as they were intended to be done).</p>
<p>–edit-- nvm</p>