<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I have been studying quite intensively for the SAT since December and I always get 1 or 2 questions wrong (sometimes I get 1 sentence correction, 1 error identification or some combination of those two). I tried diagnosing what my problem was but it usually is the one or two last questions in sentence correction and error identification that usually trips me up. IS there anything I can do to make sure I get a perfect Writing MC score?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>For CR and W, I don’t analyze the questions, the answer I give is the answer that feels right.</p>
<p>^That will get you killed.</p>
<p>Try to see under what category you keep making mistakes. Maybe Idioms?</p>
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<p>No, it actually won’t, and it hasn’t.</p>
<p>PSAT: 77 CR, 80 W</p>
<p>SAT: 790 CR, 680 W; I only missed one on each section, the low writing score was due to lack of preparedness for the essay (score of 6). I’m retaking.</p>
<p>ME TOOOOO! GOD! i got only 2 wrong in Jan and got a FRIGGIN’ 740! (with 9 on essay…) darn that curve!</p>
<p>To consistently get a perfect on the MC, you have to first master identifying the No Error Questions. To do this, get a list of over 100 No Error Questions, mix them up with 500 other random sentence identifcation questions, and see how many No Errors you miss. Go back and carefully identify the ones that you did miss, and familiarize yourself with certain expressions that that I often see on the No Error Section, such as “as a means of” or “need not”…“long since been gone…” </p>
<p>If the sentence identification errors are not a problem, and you’re getting killed on questions 13 and 14 in the last part, then you need to study MISUSED/MISPLACED MODIFIERS and TRICKY ADVERBIAL PARTICIPLES/CLAUSES…because that’s what I’ve seen tested a lot in those last 2 questions… where an incorrect placement of “either” or “also” changes the entire meaning of the sentence…</p>
<p>Also, don’t overthink it. A lot of questions in the last part of the sentence identification errors will use extremely tricky verb tenses/modifiers/inverted subject verb structure/strange-looking adverbial clauses… when you read them, you are inclined to try to find an error, when, in actuality, there is none…</p>
<p>^How, exactly, would you acquire 100 no error questions?</p>
<p>@tomatox</p>
<p>Well, let’s see. I have in my possession every single released test from College Board, all legal of course, which amounts to about 20-30 tests. I also have 10 Princeton Review tests, 10 from Kaplan, and 10 of my own that I created. On average, there might be anywhere from 2-5 no error questions on each test, so even if there were only 2 on each test, I could easily make a list of at least 200-300 NO ERROR questions with 60 scanned tests in my possession. It would undoubtedly take time, but if you’re worried enough about how you can get a perfect score, then you should be willing to invest such time to make such a list.</p>
<p>Please no PMs asking for any of these tests, as they are all sold in your local bookstore. =)</p>
<p>^Send me an amazon (or similar online bookstore) link to you ten tests, please.</p>
<p>2 on each test=60*2=120 No Error Problems. This, of course, implies that one(or any average student) has easy access to 60 tests one hasn’t done before.</p>