<p>Hi everyone! I am a new poster but a long time lurker of these forums.</p>
<p>Well, my goal is to get a 700 in cr</p>
<p>Last time I got a
600 in cr
750 in Math
600 writing</p>
<p>I got 7 sentence completions wrong and 2 ommited and I got 10 passage questions wrong.</p>
<p>For materials I have Gruber's, rocket review, the big blue book from collegeboard, Barron's 2400, barron's critical reading workbook, and both vocabulary cartoons books.</p>
<p>I am also going to buy direct hits volume 1 and 2 and maybe hit parade</p>
<p>My real question is what should I work on to get a 700 in cr and writing and do you think this would be possible? Should I do more practice test for writing to get used to the mistakes? Are the princeton review 11 tests equivalent to what the real test will be like?</p>
<p>Also I'm open to buying more study materials...
Thanks!</p>
<p>I think you're good to go! You certainly have enough review materials =]
It's DEFINITELY possible to raise CR. It just takes practice. You can raise any section of the SAT by practice.</p>
<p>If you keep missing a question because of certain vocab words, be sure to jot them down so you can review them. THat way, you won't be missing easy sentence completion points because you don't know a word even though you've seen it before.</p>
<p>I went from a 590 CR my sophomore year to 710 my junior year just with practice using the blue book in the summer.</p>
<p>And yes, for writing, it's really easy to raise your score if you get yourself familiar with all the mistakes because they just keep showing up over and over again.
Pretty soon, you'll know exactly what mistakes to look for (parallelism, subject/verb agreement..etc)</p>
<p>Went from 580 W to 790 (biig surprise). I just started seeing a pattern after doing alot of practice tests. (blue book) My sophomore year, that was my lowest score (horrible at grammar)! Now, it's my highest!</p>
<p>From January to October (so 9 months as well)
But I didnt start actually preparing for it until July, after school was out and after a vacation.
It was really less than 2 months of preparation. I didn't do much after school started again mid-August. Just a practice test every Saturday. Didn't feel like it took up too much of my time since I usually wake up really late Saturdays..all I had to do was wake up early. It's didn't get in the way of any plans.
And I don't concentrate very well studying either =]. It's really just about finding those patterns (once again, you see the same ones over and over again) and practice (I struggled with the time limit).</p>
<p>Getting used to taking the test, waking up early really calms you down the day of the test. You just feel like you're taking another practice test so your nerves don't get to you as much. That messed me up the first time because I was so nervous..didn't know what to expect. </p>
<p>Underlining/jotting BRIEF things down for the passages helps too. It'll keep you more active so you absorb more information. (it kept me from falling asleep as well haha)</p>
<p>good luck rr4life!! I certainly hope I helped. I just recently joined this too </p>
<p>Also, for the essay.
When you buy the big blue book, you can access some collegeboard online thing. There, you can find sample essays for the ones you see in the practice tests. After reading those, you usually notice that if you follow a certain structure, you'll probably get 8+ on the essay. (Intro, 2 examples, Conclusion..usually examples from literature/history/past experience) Just doing the practice tests...and getting used to writing an essay in 25 minutes helps. Leave a couple (like2-3 min) at the end to check for silly grammar/spelling mistakes.</p>
<p>Its definitely possible to get a 700 on CR. I had a 570 on CR first time i took it and I used Direct Hits, along with a ton of Collegeboard practice tests, and improved to a 710. The more you practice, the better you're going to do.</p>
<p>Thanks you guys I guess I'll just start with rocket review for passages and gruber's also for passages. Then some practice tests from the blue book and vocabulary.</p>