<p>For the people who got 700+ on Critical Reading, can you list out the books that you used, and what vocab list you memorized. I already finished the whole Blue Book, and now I managed to get 600+ on CR as opposed to getting 400 (my score last time). I need more materials to increase my CR score. Thanks</p>
<p>And if you used the website to help out your CR, for example, like a free test online, or something, can you list that out as well. Thanks</p>
<p>Use Kaplan's 2007 SAT book.
I bought it two days before the test
And i did significantly better.</p>
<p>anything else?</p>
<p>steroids...</p>
<p>daily SAT question from collegeboard.com cant hurt</p>
<p>I liked it, gives you a good explanation and a wide variety of topics.</p>
<p>any more books?</p>
<p>PR's word smart</p>
<p>Kaplan 2007 SAT Prep is the way to go!!! Best explanations ever!</p>
<p>hey is princeton good for critical reading? Or no?</p>
<p>PR's is good; Collegeboard is BEST; barron's a waste of money, but their vocab list is AMAZING and they have flashcards; kaplan's good too</p>
<p>petey - like your drive! What needs most help, vocab or sentence correction or reading passages? </p>
<p>If not sure, see if you can still order the answer key thing from collegeboard. </p>
<p>For vocab, use any/all lists you want. I like the cards in the blue ane red boxes at Barnes and Nobles personally, but all the prep books have them. Have some intelligent adults go thru and throw out about 10-20% they have never heard of or read anywhere at all. </p>
<p>Sentence correction - two books. Strunk and White (Illustrated if can find it) and one called Grammatically Correct. Cant remember authors name now. </p>
<p>Passages - often what the question author is asking and what you think they are asking for are WAY DIFFERENT. Do as many Official SAT passages as you can get your hands on, IF AND ONLY IF they have EXPLANATIONS of the answers in back. Even the slightest misread of intent of the question means MINUS -1 TOTALLY WRONG. So have to re-train your brain to think like the question writers which is a bit left of normal we will say...</p>
<p>I used Kaplan's Critical Reading workbook... Yeah, my score jumped from mid 600's to mid 700's simply by practicing a lot, and some very very helpful answer explinations. Not only do they tell you why each correct answer is right, but they tell you why each other one is wrong, in detail.
Now you will have to use the blue book along with this one because the practice isn't entirely realistic, but that's not the point (and it didn't matter for me).</p>
<p>Kaplan and Barrons 2400.</p>
<p>One more idea - if vocab is shaky (public HS definitely does not teach these words!!) </p>
<p>Get a little plastic box to hold index cards (maybe 200 or so). Try to find one with tabbed dividers (at least 5), doesnt matter what they say. "Recipe boxes" are perfect. Buy at least 500 index cards, then write out the words and definitions by hand, front and back, on the cards. Omit ones you already know of course. </p>
<p>Start with all new cards in the front section of box. Read word, guess definition, check def on the back, if right, put behind first tab. If not, back to the front of the front section. When you get to end of front section, continue on to first tab and see if still remember those. If not, put back in front of front. If yes, move behind SECOND tab. Start over at front of front section. </p>
<p>This little machine MAKES YOU automagically learn whatever you have on the cards (remember this for micro, French, anatomy, etc.). Some German guy invvented this - cant find his name now.</p>
<p>studied for the psat with princeton review's psat book
didn't study for the sat tho</p>
<p>Not to sound like a complete ass (which I will anyway), if you just read a lot, you should be fine. Just read a bunch of books, newspaper every day, and so on. The only way to really prepare yourself for a variety of things is to do that. I got a 740 w/o studying and just reading a lot. Hope that helps</p>
<p>Yeah...I guess studying the words that are used often would be good, but I don't see how knowing any particular list would be better than just reading often. I didn't think any of the words or questions were obscure at all :</p>
<p>I didn't prep for vocab/grammar, scored an 800 on that section. I used <a href="http://www.smartdoodle.com%5B/url%5D">www.smartdoodle.com</a> to familiarize myself with the general content.</p>
<p>hope u's arent plannin to teach school... sayin i scored 750-800 w/o preping doesnt really help somebody thats struggling with it</p>
<p>2ishunpoor, read his original post</p>
<p>"And if you used the website to help out your CR, for example, like a free test online, or something, can you list that out as well. Thanks"</p>
<p>tool.</p>