<p>I agree with b@rium that the reading does not necessariliy have to be classics; any quality material will do, but books like Harry Potter or Twilight won’t help much.</p>
<p>@ Bilguun: Why wouldn’t books like Harry Potter or Twilight help?</p>
<p>Because they don’t use that many SATish words and are rather simple to read and understand. You can speed through them in matter of hours and barely find two words to look up in the dictionary, and words with endings such as -oius -tious and other weird-sounding words no one except for someone born in the 1800s would know off the bat. Classics use more of those words and more complicated sentence structures, not to mention the SAT passages are usually taken from books like that or research papers and merlin-knows-what else.
Twilight on the other hand is riding on dialogue for the most part, every-day, normal, teenage dialog. Not a dialogue between medieval kings and queens.</p>
<p>what is CR and what is W?</p>
<p>The first books I read in English were by Dan Brown. Far from classical literature, but I think I think my overall reading skills in English have improved more from these books than from anything else I have read.</p>
<p>Precision, CR = Critical Reading and W = Writing.</p>
<p>Dan Brown uses much wider vocabulary than Rowling and Meyer and his syntax is step above theirs too.</p>
<p>i´m sorry, i really don´t remember but i found them by googling “sat vocabulary” or sth of that kind. and there are some on sparknotes… the books above are good if you still have a few weeks left, not for last minute study (i wouldn´t recommend it for the sat anyway ^^)… plus reading them is fun!</p>