<p>Yes, this will be the last time I'll be taking the SAT.</p>
<p>However, I need to either really clinch a high 600 or get a 700+ to really be competitive at some of my schools.</p>
<p>Anyway, if anyone could answer any questions of mine about "line citation" reading, please post! Other advice would be awesome, thanks</p>
<p>i did already man. look at my previous post.</p>
<p>I just took another practice test (only the CR section), and I've found that I've gotten about a total of 6 questions wrong on sentence completions.</p>
<p>Which are the best vocab lists out there? Are there any that I can find online?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>P.S.- I'm mostly looking for a comprehensive list (one that isn't 3000+ words and preferably closer to 1000 at most!). Any books or lists online?!</p>
<p>I'm just studying all the words on the Official SAT Study Guide..I think that's good enough.</p>
<p>Im so happy right now because I've raised my score from roughly 610 (yesterday, the first SAT practice exam on the official guide) to roughly 720 (today, the 3rd SAT practice exam on the official guide)! </p>
<p>lol :P</p>
<p>coolness_rookie, what type of questions were you struggling with initially? Which types of questions have you improved on?</p>
<p>I used to get a couple of sentence completion questions wrong per section and had trouble fully understanding the passages/questions. For sentence completion, I basically highlighted any words that I didn't know on the tests (after all the questiosn were answered and marked) and wrote their definitions right by the words. The meanings stuck to my head and I could remember almost all words I have highlighted.</p>
<p>For understanding passages/questions, I find underlining important phrases of the text incredibly helpful. I guess by trying to see what is important enough to be underlined, I have changed my passive reading pattern to an active one.</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick reply, coolness_rookie.</p>
<p>By the way, is there a list in TCB's blue book? Or are you studying the words from the actual tests?</p>
<p>How many sentence completion questions and passage questions do you usually get wrong now?</p>
<p>Krabble, I got a really bad score, but I havent taken a full practice SAT for a while, only 2 sections a day from 10 reals (saving CB book last), but I used this strategy:</p>
<ol>
<li>read blurb</li>
<li>go FAST through questions and only look for line numbers, then mark those line numbers in the passage</li>
<li>then go through the passage carefully and everytime you hit a mark, go to that question and answer, and to tell you honestly, the answer is usually either in the line they give or 1-2 lines before it, but thats it.</li>
<li>Main idea questions are easy once you go through it.</li>
</ol>
<p>I have been getting about 1-2 wrong per passage, usually the level 4/5 ones or a stupid mistake, so this worked for me.</p>
<p>in terms of vocab, from what i read on these forums, sparknotes 1000 or wordsmart, which is like.. 800 something</p>
<p>one more thing. YOU HAVE TO read the whole passage before you start answering questions. Even the ones that tell you which lines of the text the question is based upon, you often need to know the tone of the entire passage to answer the questions correctly. I always read the whole passage and finish right on time every time.</p>
<p>umm...like..a couple sentence completion for the whole test and 4~6 passage questions.</p>
<p>i beg to differ.</p>
<p>i usually attack questions after every paragraph and save the tone type questions for the very end.</p>
<p>There is NO SUCH THING as "YOU HAVE TO" on the SAT CR section. I got a 770 without reading the whole passage before doing the problems.
Again i say this. Read about two sentences prior and after the phrase to get the general info. It's just ur style. So try out whichever works best for u and adopt it.</p>
<p>Jimmy2588,</p>
<p>According to your method, if I come to a question with answer choices that mention things that AREN'T mentioned AT ALL within the line citation, can I automatically assume that THAT choice is wrong?</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies, everyone. I've found that my passage reading is getting much stronger, and all I really need to work on now is vocab. Also, for the passage reading, I basically just read one paragraph or section at a time and look at the questions. I don't like looking ahead, because it might confuse me. For example..</p>
<p>A question might ask for something in line 10. I'll look at my answer choices and within one of the answer choices, there is something mentioned in line 12, but it doesn't answer the question. I don't know if I'm being clear about this, I'll often pick THAT answer choice without realizing that even though it may be true, etc., it is NOT the right answer.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what I'm talking about? And has it happened to you too?</p>
<p>Again, thanks for the replies everyone!</p>
<p>ok...first of all, you CAN answer the line prompt questions without reading much more than one line on either side. I scored an 800 on my first stab at the revamped SAT. I will admit to reading obsessively, but what I read is mostly fantasy and various other "junk books" (as my mom terms them). When I took the test in June, I didn't do any prep besides the SAT question of the day thing from CB and a practice test the night beforehand, but I did pick up an excellent strategy. On the critical reading and sentence correction/completions, ask yourself one question constantly, "Does this change the meaning of the sentence?" I only answered one question wrong!! Hope this helps you.</p>
<p>MissMichelle, how strong is your vocabulary?</p>
<p>I think the vocab for the sentence completions is holding me back, but I'll try to review some words before the Oct. test. Also, how quickly do you finish the CR sections? I seem to work to the last second, and I'm worried I might run out of time on the actual test, but I can't seem to find a more effective & less time-consuming way. Help!</p>
<p>P.S.- Congrats on the great score</p>
<p>Krabble, i am no SAt expert, it's been working for me. this method is more of a mix between grammatix's reasoning and some poster's technique (i think the person who mentioned this technique is in the 7 or 8 page long discussion on how to get an 800 on verbal). </p>
<p>anywho, according to grammatix, I just pick the choice that sounds most like the citation. Most citation questions are level 1-3, and these are the ones that are no brainers, just go by what the citation says, literally, the less interpretation, the better. However, sometimes the level 4-5 citations (there aren't many, im using 10 reals), require a little more thinking.</p>
<p>Like everyone has been saying, do what works best for you. Try to do one passage with this technique, one with PR/Grammatix, one with RocketReview, one of your own type of strat, whichever one you feel most comfortable, stick with it.</p>
<p>Krabble, buddy! Have you improved? Tell me what's new with your progress.</p>
<p>Ahh.. my vocab and passage reading have improved, but I continue to get "words in context" questions wrong. I know the definitions of each choice, but I guess it just isn't working out for me. :(</p>
<p>Is it those ones that are like "In line 12, the word 'convey' most nearly means...."?</p>
<p>Have you tried the grammatix technique of plugging each word into the sentence and see what makes sense?</p>
<p>I just recently got grammatix, so I haven't tried it yet. What I've been doing is looking at the sentence and what its talking about, then I choose the answer I would most likely use if I wrote the sentence. Its worked most of the time (I still got a small few wrong with my method, but maybe I was being stupid).</p>
<p>Are you still having trouble with tone?</p>
<p>I think I've got the hang of tone questions now, thanks.</p>
<p>I have a feeling I get the 'word in context' questions wrong because I don't think of the definition of each choice literally enough. I dunno if that was clear enough, but I can't think of any examples right now.</p>