<p>I took the PSAT in October and I got a 44-CR 46-Math and a 42-Writing. I took a practice SAT at home a month ago and I got a 510-Writing 510- Reading and a 520-Math. I will be taking the SAT in May. I want to raise my score to at LEAST a 1600. Can anyone please tell me what to do??</p>
<p>First off, you already went from a 1320 equivalent to a 1540 equivalent, so clearly you’ll improve the more you work toward it.</p>
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<li>Keep doing practice tests</li>
<li>Once you’re done with each practice test and give your brain time to settle, go back and review the questions you got wrong. Don’t just do it in your head, write down the questions, the right answer, what you put, and where you went wrong.</li>
<li>Make flashcards of vocab on the practice tests that you didn’t know, then STUDY them before the next practice test you take.</li>
<li>Try to find patterns in the test for you. What type of questions in each section are you getting wrong? Why are you getting them wrong?</li>
<li>Give yourself a target score. Set it at, say, 1700? Maybe 1800? Before you take your next practice test, MAKE SURE that if you had taken the last test you took again, you would be able to hit your target score on it. Don’t make this score too high, though; you’ve got, what, 9 practice tests left? You should instead increase it once you meet your target.</li>
<li>Post up some of your essays on here and let people score them. Listen to their feedback.</li>
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<p>What’s important for when you review is not only that you simply see why your answer was wrong and why the correct answer is right, but also HOW you could reach the correct answer in a similar question in the future. Take a passage-based CR question–something in the passage (maybe multiple things) was supposed to tip you off. You missed it, but why? Next time, what will you do differently to not miss a similar tip?</p>
<p>Final piece of parting advice, this is merely opinion/a personal thing, but for CR passages I look at the lines the questions for a passage refer to and underline them before I read the text. That way, I’ll be more focused on them when I read and won’t have to constantly re-read the same thing.</p>