<p>Any resources, tips, or pdfs. Please please please help!</p>
<p>I have a 570, and im going for a 700. Don't tell me its impossible to jump that high by October, anythings possible with persistence! </p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any resources, tips, or pdfs you comment.</p>
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<p>Besides working on your test taking skills, just retake and hope for a bit of luck. It is a factor since passages that interest you will be easier to understand and answer. If luck is in your favor maybe you’ll get a couple of reading friendly passages. Anyway, work on your test taking skills and roll the dice for a bit of luck. Here’s a start-GL.</p>
<p>I went from a 630 (January) to an 800 (June).</p>
<p>I spent only two weeks before the June date preparing for the SAT.</p>
<p>The single most incredible resource I had was Noitaraperp’s “How to Attack the SAT Critical Reading Section Effectively” thread. I highly advise you to look it up, and then use the information in it.</p>
<p>One of his last pieces of advice is to give yourself less time per section while practicing. I did not do this; I found that to be unnecessarily hard and daunting. Just keep practicing; practice tests are your best friend.</p>
<p>Understand, though- in the January test, I got one vocabulary question wrong. In the June test, I also only got one vocabulary question wrong. Vocab was not my weakness; the reading comprehension was, for whatever reason, my Achilles heel. If its vocab that you only/also need to improve in, I do not know what to tell you… people advise using horrifyingly long lists of common words, but that also seems futile.</p>
<p>For vocab, read up on your Latin/Greek bases. They’ll help you reason your way through the test. For example… the June test had a question about how something was “in decline, but not quite dead yet.” I knew I was looking for something related to death/debility, and my choices allowed me to narrow things down. I saw the word “moribund,” and I’ll admit, I had no clue what it meant. But it had the prefix mor-, which generally means “dead” or “death.” Think words like “morgue,” “morbid,” and “mortifying.” They all have the same connotations. So I chose moribund, and sure enough, when I looked up all the words I wasn’t sure about at home that day, it was spot on. Moribund means “at the point of death” or “in terminal decline.”</p>
<p>For vocab, flashcards (Quizlet, Anki, etc.) are useful. Search for ‘Stems’ on Quizlet and go through the lists–like kcohen said, Latin and Greek stems are useful and these lists have a lot of them. </p>
<p>For CR, you should identify your problem. Is it hard to concentrate on the text? Is it difficult to answer the questions? Then tackle this issue.</p>
<p>I have problems mostly with understanding the questions, any tips for that?</p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>I’m going to be a Senior in October. I took the June SAT and got a 660 Critical Reading and I hope to improve to at least a 750 on the October SAT. I’m studying 6-7 hours everyday during the summer, especially in analyzing the questions vs my answers. </p>
<p>I also have the most trouble in the reading passage questions rather than vocab questions.</p>
<p>Same exact problem @Lforlawleit</p>
<p>bump bump bump bump bump</p>
<p>It’s not impossible. Believe!!! Just do some tests and really get to know the format of the questions. The type of questions repeat, and you’ll get the hang of it. A really helpful site is pwnthesat. (Search on google) Good luck, and happy studying!</p>