<p>I can't get myself to sit down and study for the SAT. I know that I should read A LOT. But I just don't want to.... I'm a senior, and I know that some of you have been (or are) in my shoes. So what can I do to get off my butt and do something about my poor reading comprehension?</p>
<p>My suggestion is to go through an SAT prep book, study the vocab and in your free time read extensively. I’m a junior rite now but… its kinda similar so hope that helps!</p>
<p>In your situation, as a senior, I would, like jk511 suggested, get a SAT prep book and just practice. There’s no way that random reading would help you immediately for your SAT. A prep book would give you more focus and confidence, and that’s what you really need.</p>
<p>what about those times when I’d rather neuter myself than sit down and open up the SAT book? Is there a particular activity, besides reading, that can help me improve my reading speed and comprehension?</p>
<p>I know that there’s this program called Eye Q or whatever that has 7 minute sessions 3x/week that will improve your reading speed up to 8x. Maybe I’m just dreaming, but is there a easy way around all of this?</p>
<p>Just read challanging texts and memorize vocab. For the writing just memorize rules and do many many pratice problems. To tell you the truth, you can’t really study for the SAT so this is the best way to prepare.</p>
<p>well in any case, Walker failed the SAT. So my goal is to just break the 570 CR barrier and then I’m good lol</p>
<p>haha me too idk why 570 though… break the 600 barrier hopefully and the 620-650 barrier for writing and the 670-700 barrier for math and ill be set!</p>
<p>You don’t have to have read classics to do well on the sat. What you need is to know* the the type of questions asked and expected type of answers. Don’t try some speed reading program or go read moby dick. Even if you are a slow reader, your speech and comprehension will automatically go up if you do enough passage-reading practice. </p>
<p>So, the bottom line: Find 25 minutes per day. Do a section of practice.</p>
<p>OK this is probably the most important question that I’m going ask on this forum -.-</p>
<p>Is it good to do multiple practice tests/day? I know that last time on my ACT, I tried to get practice in by cramming 3 practice tests the day before the exam. The next day, I could not focus what so ever. But since there’s only 7 days before I’m completely done with this ■■■, I really need to do a lot of practice tests.</p>
<p>Basically: Do a lot of practice tests or do some practice tests and value rest more than anything else?</p>
<p>Looking for those who have experience in this. tkx</p>
<p>For the PSAT (on which I scored a 231), I did one per week for 4 weeks. </p>
<p>I think you would benefit the most from doing drills and practice tests on alternating days. Do <em>not</em> cram 3 in one day. That’s insane! Remember to review the questions you missed. maybe make a list of what your mistakes were. A trend will appear.</p>