<p>I recently bought the grammatix book and plan to retake my 1810 SAT from last year in october...I read the cr section but it doesnt seem like the "magical cure" as everyone describes it to be. How should i go about doing this...read it over and over or just go practice a huge amount of problems? I dont seem to be learning anything as i stated above with my PR class which i am also taking (advanced PR since i didnt get the 200 points increase before). I reeeaaallllyyyy need some help guys because my goal is a 2000 but i dont think its gonna happen</p>
<p>I am also very interested in this. I used Grammatix and the techniques are not working all that great. For example, non of the math portion helps me. I am getting 650 for the math section but i can definately bring that up. No technique can help you for the math section, you just have to know your stuff. For the English portion, I mess up a little on the sentence completion buts that about all. For the Writing, the Grammatix style for the essay helped me. The other parts of the Writing, i seem to make careless errors.</p>
<p>With all that said, i think the only thing that would help me is to practice more. Is this correct?</p>
<p>"I read the cr section but it doesnt seem like the "magical cure" as everyone describes it to be. How should i go about doing this...read it over and over or just go practice a huge amount of problems?"</p>
<p>TBS, you seem to KNOW the answer to your own question. There are no magical cures, Holy Grail type shortcuts. "Reading" the Grammatix -or any book for that matter- won't help you. You may as well stick under your pillow and hope for the knowledge to tranfer to your brain cells by osmosis. You have to pick a method and try it in earnest for a ... long time. You could read all the books published by PR, Kaplan, Barron's and be none the wiser. </p>
<p>You won't find a chapter that tells you, "Here are the ten questions or 200 words that WILL appear". A few people have tried such "predictions" and deserve nothing but scorn and ridicule. </p>
<p>Stop looking for outside -if not divine- intervention. Stack ten to twelve SAT in front of you, and go to work. With diligence and intelligence! </p>
<p>PS It is probably not what you want to hear! :)</p>
<p>Great Post. I have been wasting my time on nonsense stuff. I am hoping to do the Kaplan 8 Practice Tests by the time the October SAT comes and the Big Blue Book Tests for the November/December SAT.</p>
<p>thanks xiggi but actually thats kinda what i wanted to hear so that i would get off my butt and start studying lol...and infocenter we better get started!</p>
<p>Xiggi is always inspirational.</p>
<p>It's time I get started on my practice as well.</p>
<p>Great advice from Xiggi. I would add to that...since you're taking a prep class, talk to your instructor and tell him/her/it that it's not clicking for you for CR. PR instructors are supposed to be really good about helping you outside of class time if you need it, for no extra moolah, so, ask for help since you/Mom/Dad/Santa Claus are/is/could be paying for it!!</p>
<p>Grammatix requires practice.</p>
<p>holy crap your taking a pr class and not improving? theres something critical you are missing.. either get out of the class or talk to your tutor</p>
<p>ehh thats wat i mean...I thought i was learning stuff before and doing good but somehow my scores never went up and idk why</p>
<p>subscribe to collegeboard's sat question of the day! =) that really helps me...i scored pretty well on the SATs, especially writing...I don't really know what else you can do but practice practice practice...take lots of diagnostics!</p>