<p>Hey everyone. I'm an incoming senior and of course have one chance left to get a 2300+ in the fall. I'm planning on applying to upper-tier/ivy. This is my superscore so far:
690 CR
720 math
750 writing</p>
<p>Obviously I need help in CR and math. Does anyone know any CR books that gave them actual results? I don't need help on vocabulary. I'm planning on getting gruber's for math.</p>
<p>I would personally try reading some solid magazines - The Economist or New Yorker are good, if expensive, although you can probably find some at the library - since I think they do a pretty good job of simulating the passage-based questioning that you say you have trouble with. It’s also more fun than a dedicated prep book.</p>
<p>Alright i was in a pretty similar situation to you about six months ago. I took the test in January, and these were my scores:
CR: 690
M: 700
W: 750
T: 2140</p>
<p>I was signed up to retake it in March. I planned on doing a ton of prep, but instead i kind of just got a good night sleep and felt confident in my ability to do well. I took one practice test the night before, graded it, and moved on with my life.
It worked.
My 2nd try scores were:
CR: 770
M: 790
W: 760
T: 2320</p>
<p>However, I do not think this is the norm, so I don’t recommend my “not studying” method. The biggest thing, though, is to remain confident in your ability and to get a good night sleep. As far as prepping, the same ol’ blue book method should do the trick.</p>
<p>lo i wish my not studying method would work. My score dropped 20 points ha.</p>
<p>How is yours superior? lol</p>
<p>The best way to improve in CR, IMHO, is to try to get faster at the easy questions. Practice doing the tests at speed… try to finish a CR section in 20 minutes. One one blue book 25 minute CR section, I managed to get them all correct (with lots of practice) in 16 minutes. Once you learn how to answer the easy questions quickly… you’ll have plenty of time to dissect the text as at applies to the more complicated questions. Or maybe that isn’t your problem… but it did work for me! (800 cr)</p>
<p>If you have any specific problems… I’ll more than gladly help! Just PM me!</p>
<p>dreamsofivy: so u did NOTHING and your score boosted like that much???</p>
<p>It kind of happened with me too. Minimal studying between these two. </p>
<p>October: 720M 730CR 700W (2150)
May: 800M 700CR 800W (2300)</p>
<p>I think your score improves as you take your high school classes. There was a 7- month period between the test dates where I could absorb extra information from school, so that definitely helped me out. Especially for math, where our teacher always gave us problems that tested our understanding of fundamentals. But as above posters said, I don’t recommend it.</p>
<p>hey bigb14 what did u get on the essay?</p>
<p>12… why? Were you curious and dug up the thread after 3 weeks?</p>
<p>You’ll get what I give you.</p>
<p>I also did very minimal studying.</p>
<p>790M 710CR 690W to a 800M 800CR 690W.</p>
<p>I should have studied writing… school will help you with math and critical reading for sure [if you take an English class and a Math class haha] but I’m not so sure on the writing.</p>
<p>God I hate writing</p>
<p>no bigb i was just curious.</p>
<p>Bigb14, several old threads have been dug up by the same person lol</p>