<p>March '07: 2040 (710M, 680CR, 650W)
Oct '07 Goal: 2320+ (800M, 770CR, 750W)</p>
<p>Study plan: Review vocab lists, brush up on grammar, and practice math/reading.</p>
<p>Last time: 2160 : 760 CR 700 W 700 M
Realistic goal: 2250 +</p>
<p>Study plan: Practice tests, practice tests, practice tests where the math and writing are concerned. I feel lucky, though, as these are the easiest to improve on.</p>
<p>March:
CR: 640
W: 650
M: 680
(1970)</p>
<p>October:
CR:750
W: 750
M: 800
(2300)</p>
<p>Materials: Sparknotes 1000 SAT Vocab (Wordsmart is bogus for the SAT)
Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT (Additional 300 Vocab words +Test tips)
Collegeboard's Blue Book (Only for practice)
PR 11 Practice Tests for the SAT (Will use after ^)</p>
<p>There is no point in memorizing 10000 words for the SAT. There simply is not enough questions involving vocab recall. And in all the real tests I looked at, all but 1 word wasn't in the 1300 vocab set I have. To top it off, the answer with the 1 word that I didn't have wasn't the correct answer to the question.</p>
<p>Pretty much my situation. Though I started off with a 1990 from last October and contrary to what you've written, am totally clueless about the study plan :(.</p>
<p>How many hours a day are you throwing in?</p>
<p>I study vocab 35 words per day. That takes about an hour. Then I go through the UGTTSAT. That usually takes about 1/2 hour and I can get pretty far. I review everything I highlighted as "important" for about 15 minutes. Right now I am just concentrating on the CR section (Vocab, reading strat, obviously wrong answer choices). I will be done with the CR section in about 2 weeks, know about 600 vocab words, and will then blast in practice solely on the CR sections of the Blue Book. I figure maybe 3 from the Blue Book and 3 from the PR 11 practice tests book. Then I do it all over with math and writing before trying it all together.</p>
<p>Math will be a ton easy for me to boost to 800 cause it is my best subject. The only reason I bombed the SAT the first time was because I got cocky and thought I could rock it using solely my intelligence.</p>
<p>Well, admittedly my prep is kinda more burdensome and time-consuming but hopefully we get to break the 2300... hopefully!</p>
<p>I know approximately 2500+ words from some remnants of the Barron's I studied after I took my first Reasoning SAT and I am putting like two to four hours a day reading eclectic stuff from Times, Discover, New Yorker, Wired and some fiction... I am hoping for a 750+ this October...</p>
<p>What's your approach to writing?</p>
<p>I am pretty good at finding sentence errors and whatnot- especially after preparing for the ACT, but I think the essay is solely graded on length. I suppose the most I can do is study grammar rules from my english classes and read sample essays. Lemme know if you want the 1000 SAT Wordlist that I have.</p>
<p>Oh, I just got 1 more thing to add. I am not really worried about the reading stamina part of taking the test. I read magazines such as Wired, Popular Science, IEEE Spectrum, etc. as it is of my own free will.</p>
<p>Is that the "1000 most common SAT words" that Sparknotes has published?
If so, don't bother, I've got it. Am looking for October Testmasters though.</p>
<p>score: 2090
goal: 2300+</p>
<p>May : 2040
Goal : 2150+++</p>
<p>Go go practice books :D</p>
<p>May: 2200 (750m, 740cr, 710w)</p>
<p>Oct goal: 2300 (770m, 770cr, 760w)</p>
<p>But if i just improve my cr to 750+ i'll be happy. The difference between a 2200 and 2400 doesn't really prove anything beyond SAT skills...</p>
<p>last October: (610m, 480cr, 580 w) <em>PR course didnt help me at all</em>
this Oct goal <em>may be unrealistic</em>(800m, 720cr, 800 w). i'd say i've prepared well with the blue book.</p>