<p>I had my very first SAT in December, and my reading and writing were 530 and 540(essay 8).</p>
<p>How can I bring my score up to 650 : 650 in 5 months? Plz.. I am desperate.</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>Get a prep book; study. that's all, really.
good luck</p>
<p>read read read read read read read read read read read and then read some more.... and im assumin g you are a junior... so u have plenty plenty plent plenty of time</p>
<p>still got six months, spare 2 hours every week to do some sat and u should be fine, heck even once every 2 weeks should do it
i take it your doing fine in math btw or else i would have said 4 hours a week</p>
<p>writing is really dang easy once you get all the rules down from a book like RocketReview.</p>
<p>The mulitple choice part at least. the essay not so much.
what you probably need to do for the essay is a lot of practice essasy and study in depth a couple topics that could be used to support a wide variety of prompts.</p>
<p>(I didn't do this. my essays were terrible.)</p>
<p>What did you do to study the first time? You should at the very least be taking the College Board tests and using Cracking the SAT. Those are the best materials.</p>
<p>Accept your scores the way I accepted my 380/720. Make sure that other parts of your application shine. Colleges will focus less on your SAT's that way like they focused on mine.</p>
<p>Hm..take the ACT?</p>
<p>I can't say much for the reading since I <em>suck</em> at that section but for the writing... do practice essays especially under timed conditions and go through them when you are done! It helps to ask someone else to read it too for feedback. Know some nice literary works like "The Count of Monte Cristo", for me that book had the answer to like... every essay i ever did. For the multiple choice, know the basic grammar rules and idioms. i always miss the idioms.</p>
<p>First of all, calm down. Take a deep breath-you are not a failure. You do not "suck at life". You will not be doomed to garbagedom. Okay, once you are past that, get a review book. Get 10 review books if you think it will help. Take practice tests and circle every question you don't confidently know. Review the circled (even if you did get them right) and the wrong ones. Were you careless (didn't read the directions, didn't see "EXCEPT")?--focus and underline q</p>
<p>Did you not understand the passage? Read harder skill level books. Most of the passages are not horrendous...get a book like Scarlet Letter that will challenge you and get you to think about the basic idea of a passage. Shakespeare is also good.</p>
<p>Did you lose points on grammar? Was it from not knowing the rule or from not knowing how it applied to the question? There are a lot of grammar guides, and I'd suggest memorizing the rules and doing dittos.</p>
<p>Why was your essay low? Reread, and try to revise it. Read essays that got high scores. Try to self-evaluate as well. Was your thesis bad? Your intro? Then focus on the strong parts and bringing up the other parts of the essay.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>ok well, if you have the money i definitely suggest taking a course. i took the kaplan one and it raised my scores over 100 points each (except writing score... not sure why). it can get really expensive but i definitely think it's worth it if you can afford it.</p>
<p>read read and read</p>
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380/720? Is this some sort of sarcasm?</p>