HOW DID you study for SAT WRITING?

Test Preparation
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<p>are there any good books out there? like books on concepts and etc?</p>

<p>im looking for some helpful books that will help me....</p>

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<p>I heard Rocket Review is good</p>

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<p>I read a simple grammar handbook (the bedford handbook). My reading was intended to improve my grammar and writing, but it still helped me with the SAT writing.</p>

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<p>I used SparkNotes Seven Deadly Mistakes… It was great.</p>

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<p>There’s no real way, I don’t think, except to know the rules of grammar and pay extremely close attention to the nuances of every MC question. As for the essay, fill the 2 pages and keep it organized and original.</p>

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<p>I went from 550 to 720 by lots of practices. ONLY practices. A LOT of practices.</p>

<p>From practice books like Princeton Review, Barrons, etc. anything I got my hands on.</p>

<p>It’s all just a test. It doesn’t test your writing abilities or anything. A 500 and an 800 doesn’t mean squat.</p>

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<p>For the essay - just improvise and lie
For the MC - review the BB (there’s a list of most common mistakes)</p>

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<p>Review your basic grammar, do many practice essays, and you’ll be fine.</p>

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<p>once you do more practice mc for writing, you find a trend… like you look for subject-verb agreement and when to use who or whom and other stuff like that… so i suggest practicing a lot and looking up the most common errors in the writing section (parallelism is also another one)</p>

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<p>Barrons (Reg. Sat) grammar review + all BB2 Test. – > 800</p>

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<p>archi is totally right about the essay
I got a 640 the first time I look it because my essay was “bad.” My english teacher told me just to lie and make stuff up when I took it the second time, so I did. I seriously made up some rediculous examples, and I ended up getting an 800. </p>

<p>As for the writing multiple choice, use any of the SAT books and just go through the rules. They love parallel structure, misplaced modifiers, pronouns, and subject-verb agreement, so make sure you know those like the back of your hand. What really helps is to point out exactly what the problem is for each question. For example, say to yourself, “this sentence is wrong because the verbs conjugations aren’t parallel in structure.” If you do that while practicing, you’ll notice that the SAT just tests the same things over and over and over, and you’ll be able to identify the problem in each question on the actual test. The multiple choice is just about rules so it’s relitively easy to pick them up.</p>