<p>Now, i want to study over the summer and i will show you the list of books that I have.</p>
<li>Princeton Review 11 Practice Tests(1 done)</li>
<li>Collegeboard blue book( went through all the tests barely not seriously a year ago) would that still work?</li>
<li>10 REAL SAT’s(untouched)</li>
<li>Barrons 2400</li>
<li>Kaplan SAT Writing Workbook</li>
<li>Barrons SAT writing Workbook</li>
<li>Barrons SAT Critical reading workbook</li>
<li>Barrons 22nd edition SAT prep</li>
<li>Q Cards: A Vocabulary Flash Card System for the SAT</li>
</ol>
<p>now this is all i have so far… and some other SAT II books. What other books would you guys recommend. I know i can get 800 on math if i dont make silly mistakes. Writing i need some practice and would like to buy another workbook if a company makes one? any other good books you would like to recommend? I heard someone say rocket review was good? what about grammatix what is that?</p>
<p>So basically for Critical reading i am getting good on the sentence completions… not perfect though 16+/19 but am getting at least 10 wrong on the passage readings.</p>
<p>What should i do this summer to raise my Critical reading to 700+ math to 800 and writing to 750</p>
<p>Take EVERY test in that barron's 22nd edition.... it raised my Critical reading and writing a lot.... It should raise your math too, i really didnt because i never had a problem with math anyway</p>
<p>its very hard to know exactly what to do. you should have bought mcgraw hill
do all of mcgraw hill barrons and Princeton
then call it a day</p>
<p>basically id do the following 1 reading, 1 math, 1 grammar a day along wiht at least 20 words and going through at least 10 -20 pages of review.
its about 4 hours of work and you have to WANT to do it or else you wont get anything done. luckily all im missing is doing the review sections which im about to go do shortly. thank god for my SAT course which i do 100 words a day and then 2.5 hours of other stuff whew :)</p>
<p>i have Grubers for Math, RocketReview for CR and Writing, Princeton 11 tests, barrons 2400 and kaplanworkbooks.....maybe you should get Rocketreview because I recommend using that and I have recommended it to many people on CC because it has helped me and Xiggi has also recommended it.....that's probably the only other book you MAY need...otherwise you have a large amount of books yourself</p>
<p>Backfire, I have a similar plan as you...not really formulated yet, but in the abstract at least. I'd like to bump my 730 W to a 750+, 680 CR to a 700+ (and I generally do a bit lower), and my 710 M a bit at least...over the summer. </p>
<p>I'm just planning to do a LOT of practice. At this point I think I'm going to try to focus on the sections first, CR mostly, and do some individual section practice, not necessarily timed even...and then do loads and loads of sitting there completely focus practice tests.</p>
<p>Hi,
Don't know if this helps. I'm a non-native and started learning English in grade 9, but I managed to get a 2180 in my 1st try (800M, 690CR, 690W) after three weeks of study. Here're all the materials I've used so far:
- Kaplan The New SAT (didn't even look at its strategies)
- Kaplan free QuizBank (many errors, but it's free)
- Free official tests from the CB (the old pretest, Mar 05, Oct 01, May 02, etc...)
- Essay prompts from the CB (Mar 05 -> May 06)
- Free online test from PR (got really low score for CR)
- Some other free SAT practice tests/questions online but I found them not useful.
- Barrons' wordlist (didn't memorize much vocab, though)
- A vocab website: <a href="http://www.vocabtest.com">http://www.vocabtest.com</a> (definitions sometimes inaccurate;didn't try senior and advanced senior levels because they are too hard) and some dictionaries
- A list of common writing mistakes from the CB:
<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/123.html">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/123.html</a>
- Read newspaper/magazine articles on favourite subjects to increase reading speed and learn new vocab
I didn't use the Blue Book and the online course because they're too expensive and the book is not sold in my country, but they can be very useful as well. My method is as follows:
- at least 1 grammar,1 CR,1M section/day
- 1 essay/day and only use official topics
- always time yourself and make a detailed plan of how to use your time effectively (eg: 15 mins for a 13-question passage; <5 mins for 10 SCs)
- do the official tests again and again but reduce the time limit each time you try.
- for math, I got 800 with very little practice (I'm Asian :D). I think somehow you have to find the question patterns. This is vague but SAT I math is very predictable.<br>
- learn to bubble as fast as possible :)</p>
<p>Anyway, your score is already very good, especially your W score. I know I'm not a high-scorer but my method did raise my score a lot. Good luck on your next SAT.</p>