<p>i took sat 2009 and i get 800 math, 800 writing and 440 reading</p>
<p>right now, my only concern is to raise my critical reading coz my college dont care for writing…</p>
<p>also, is there a possibility to get 800 cr coz im takin it on january 2010. i only got 1 month to practice and im starting to use your strategy for cr but i still get 5-9 mistakes for every critical reading section (there are 3 cr sections on 1 Pratice tests)</p>
<p>i really need your advice…</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Hey, noitaraprep i have been using your methods. At first time using it I had to go over the usual 25 minutes. How long did it take you on your first try with this thing?</p>
<p>im just basically looking for a great schedule to prepare for the SAT of june '10…</p>
<p>basically what is the best way to prepare for the test? break it down into sections or take a prac test every week…i’ve got the tools…i just need help in how to use them please help!</p>
<p>and any recommendations on the best test prep books?? princeton review? barrons? kaplan? any suggestions? please help!</p>
<p>my dad has always told me to memorize a lot of words. In the SAT, is the vocab important</p>
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<p>Having an exceptionally robust vocabulary will usually yield one to three more correct responses than having a merely good vocabulary will.</p>
<p>Well, on the PSAT, 20% of the reading part was vocabulary related, so vocabulary is the difference between a 600 and an 800. Just memorizing words…</p>
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<p>Very few who are capable of getting all the passage questions correct would miss every sentence completion question even if they did not memorize any word lists.</p>
<p>Hi Noitaraperp, I thought this review was great and I’m going to try it, but I also want to improve my math scores (650-700 right now). I’m just wondering which books you thought had the best strategies and which you thought had the best practice tests for math? Thanks!</p>
<p>silverturtle how do you approach memorizing so many words. You don’t know exactly what words are going to be on the SAT. So how would you go about memorizing vocab?</p>
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<p>Go through lists of words and find any that you don’t know. Write them on flashcards and review them periodically.</p>
<p>Thank you silverturtle</p>
<p>Hello Noitaraperp. You have done a commendable job by revealing to other CC members your genius strategy to tackle the CR section. I, hugely impressed by your virtuoso tactics, wish to know if you have an equally workable strategy to attack the writing section. If you do then it would certainly be kind of you to post it.</p>
<p>Hey guys!</p>
<p>Sorry that I haven’t been able to respond. I’ve been really busy with my first semester at Harvard and it’s hard for me to keep checking this thread. I may come up with a writing section strategy guide, but I haven’t looked at the SAT for a while, so I’m not too sure right now. Maybe I will begin tutoring again to get back into the flow (I volunteered in my senior year of high school to tutor inner city kids in the SAT). Most of the recent questions on here have been answered throughout the thread, so try to comb through the pages. I probably won’t be able to check this thread too often, since college is quite rigorous and time is scarce.</p>
<p>Good luck and keep studying,
Noitaraperp</p>
<p>Thanks for your posting. I think that it is a very good approach to the CR section. I would like to see your eHow post, however I can’t find it by googling or by search ehow.com. Please let me know if you still have this post up on the ehow.com?</p>
<p>For some reason, it’s still under editorial review after I tweaked it about three months ago. The site is somewhat disorganized…</p>
<p>It’s back up now but a lot of my changes have disappeared magically. I’m sort of afraid to edit it because it will go into another month of “editorial review.” Now I’m back into SAT tutoring (since I’m more adjusted after the first semester of college), so I will reawaken (hopefully) my insights on writing progressively. I will definitely then work on a writing guide.</p>
<p>Hey noitaraperp this is a really random and weirdly worded question but…this was one of the problems in the BB 2nd edition, 7th test.</p>
<ol>
<li>In the second paragraph (lines 6-13), the references to animals primarily serve to…
A…
B. prove a controversial point about animal behavior.
C. …
D…
E. show the variety of animal play.</li>
</ol>
<p>The correct answer is E but I think B kind of fits too… Is B definitely wrong because the word “prove” is too extreme?</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>Here is the explanation provided from the College Board website. </p>
<p>ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS </p>
<p>Explanation for Correct Answer E : </p>
<p>Choice (E) is correct. In the second paragraph, different sorts of play—stalking and wrestling, playing tag, playing by oneself with rocks and sticks, and tickling others—are associated with different kinds of animals. Thus the varied nature of animal play is displayed.</p>
<p>Explanation for Incorrect Answer A : </p>
<p>Choice (A) is incorrect. In the third paragraph there is mention of an assumption held by biologists that play among animals “was too nebulous a concept either to define or to study” (line 19). But the kinds of play included in the second paragraph do not support this assumption, nor are they offered in its support.</p>
<p>Explanation for Incorrect Answer B : </p>
<p>Choice (B) is incorrect. The point that the second paragraph primarily addresses—that there are many animals that play when young and that they play in a variety of ways—is not presented in the passage as a controversial point that needs to be proven. It is presented as a point that had long been ignored but which has, in the last two decades, attracted some of the attention that, according to the passage, it deserves.</p>
<p>Explanation for Incorrect Answer C : </p>
<p>Choice (C) is incorrect. The descriptions of animal play in the second paragraph are not offered as contrasting in any way with “a previous description of animal play.” The first paragraph of the passage contains a description of animal play, but the sorts of play described are much the same as in the second paragraph. For example, chasing and wrestling occur in both paragraphs. The passage gives no indication of any historically earlier descriptions of animal play with which the descriptions in the second paragraph are contrasted. Rather, the passage says that “play among animals was ignored by scientists for most of this [the 20th] century” (lines 15-16).</p>
<p>Explanation for Incorrect Answer D : </p>
<p>Choice (D) is incorrect. The second paragraph does include the sentence, “From human children to whales to sewer rats, many groups of mammals and even some birds play for a significant fraction of their youth” (lines 7-9). What this emphasizes, however, is behavioral and developmental similarities between animals and humans, not physical similarities.</p>
<p>I’m not Noitararerp, but the above is totally correct. ^</p>
<p>ok thanks kevmschmid :)</p>
<p>reading some good novels will really help rather than taking too many practice tests. I believe CR is a test of concentration. I didn’t take so much practice tests but I improved my score from 470 to 690 in a year.</p>