<p>Please tell me any suggestions on greatly improving my Verbal Score to around 650-700...some of you may laugh at me but it seems that no matter what I do to improve I'm always stuck at 620-640...</p>
<p>tell me anything other than reading a lot of books and stuff like that...</p>
<p>Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>I'm guessing your missing those last few quesitons in every section. Just go through the questions you missed, identify what you did wrong and don't make the same mistake twice. Its hard to give good solid strategies for the CR, apart from all the stuff that's out there. Just keep doing practice passages.</p>
<p>I went from a 590 to 680 doing the blue book. All of the sudden, i started looking at them differently.</p>
<p>thanks a lot for your helpful comments.</p>
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<p>Me too! well for me, what happened was, i decided to read the whole paragraph quickly, and I realized I understood it soo much better, then I went back to each line that the question asked for - and then I responded. I did this on the actual March SAT and got a 670 (what got me were the last couple setence fill-ins, i've got a weak vocabulary I guess. :( ) And the funny part was I still had time left over to check my work for verbal section, and math I was barely finishing on time (and i'm a huge math kid.. got a 740satI, 800m2c) It seemed odd to me.</p>
<p>Anyway, that's what I did, but for most people I've heard it's not good, and is actually bad, since all the extra reading confuses you and takes too much time. But do whatever works for you.</p>
<p>Never second-guess yourself...if you don't have a reason to switch between choice A and choice B, you're wasting valuable time debating between the two. Choose one and forget it unless you have an epiphany.</p>
<p>When reading on a subject that you're familiar with, try to forget your prejudices towards that subject. All of the questions are based solely on the passage, and extra knowledge, while occasionally helpful, will much more often hurt you by clouding your judgment.</p>
<p>But just old-fashioned practicing can help...I went from a 680 to an 800 just by doing a couple of practice exams the night before...</p>
<p>if you're getting the sentence comps wrong, study vocab</p>
<p>Practice tests! I, too, started seeing them differently eventually. It becomes so easy after a while. I had a 56 on my PSAT verbal in 10th grade, and I ended up with a 760 this month.</p>