<p>Ok i have got the CollegeBoard SAT's The Official SAT study guide book and so far the only subject i exceed excellently in is Math. I am not that somewhat good in sentence sompletion BUT their Passive Base Reading catergory just kills me. I only did 8 questions out of the sample questions and only got TWO CORRECT!! This is aggravating me and freaking me out because i REALLY do not want a super low SAT score and sadly want at LEAST a 1750 which my sister say is pretty bad. Like at this rate i need a miracle to get me a 1500. Is there anyway i can DRAMATICALLY increase my passive base reading skill? I am in such desperate need to get better.</p>
<p>The best way to do this is get REALLY interesting in literary terms and devices REALLY quickly. Ask your English teacher for extra tutoring and quizzing. Also, try giving yourself a "word of the day" of words you don't know yet (my school does 25 words a week). Pay a lot of attention to words you don't know and their context in the passage. Once you learn about lit devices and terms, look for examples of them in the passage because that's where the questions come from. Big ideas are theme/overall point, purpose, structure, use of devices like metaphor and more obscure ones like caesura, and what words most closely mean.</p>
<p>read.
practice SAT essays. a LOT. get it scored by SAT tutor or a teacher.
read.</p>
<p>did I mention reading?</p>
<p>Don't waste your time reading; pray to god.</p>
<p>Hahah, just kidding. Read.</p>
<p>practice A LOT over teh summer than take it in fall. than ur all ready. what i do is put my feet in the shoes of the testmakers. that way, i try to make myself see what answers are tricky</p>
<p>Try answering the line references questions as you go along. You can save time by doing this. Also, save the reasoning questions (Questions without line references like "What is the purpose of this passage?", "The tone of the passage is.." etc) for last so as you answer the other questions, you will gradually be able to answer these questions. Also, NEVER assume anything. The answer must be supported by the passage at all times. Do not assume anything because it seems like a logical choice. If the passage does not state it explicitly, it is incorrect.</p>
<p>Understand the the questions and also, maybe more importantly the answers. I learned that there are four kinds of wrong answers. One is ridiculously worng. One is out of the context. One is impressive but flawed. And the last one is the opposite. That might help.</p>
<p>You must go into the test realizing that no previous knowledge is required for this test. All the answers are in the passage.</p>
<p>Yeah, and read. Like they said. It looks like you are not a native speaker of English. That means you need to expose yourself to more well written English and more varieties of English writing.</p>