<p>Does anyone know any effective ways to raise a CR score from 600-700+ for the October SAT.</p>
<p>Like should I really read novels on the side? And what prep books should I get?(I heard that Direct Hits is amazing- I also read Noitaprep's CR guide).</p>
<p>I'm wondering how many of you 2200+ers have like 5 minutes extra time in each section.. I'm on the last problem with 1 minute left 90% of the time.</p>
<p>One word: Vocab
Also some AP Language and Composition Multiple Choice practice problems.
I did both for a few months in my classes and went from a 690 to an 800 from December to June.
So over the summer, get your hands on some vocab words (Ones from the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne are particularly good), and see if you can find some AP practice questions. They help SO much!
Good Luck!</p>
<p>Vocab practice would definitely help, but studying prefixes and suffixes is also very helpful. For example, if you know the word you are looking for has to be ‘good’ you can probably discount words that start with con.</p>
<p>Also, READ, especially classics or ‘harder’ books. They’re written with different language from what is commonly used today, so you often need to THINK more about what you are reading. As TSB said, books like The Scarlet Letter also help with vocab.</p>
<p>A jump from 600 to 750 is definitely doable. My PSAT CR was 64 but it was 750 on the SAT. The only change I made was reading more often, and harder books.</p>
<p>Good Luck!!!</p>
<p>side note: The books I read were East of Eden, A Tale of Two Cities, and Lord of the Rings ~ Reading books heavy on symbolism and vocab helped tremendously.</p>
<p>Read classical literature. Dostoyevsky, Tolstoi, and other classics. Learn unfamiliar words. In addition, read and seek out newspapers, especially ones with high merit. Like New York Times or the Economist. The diction is very professional (and sometimes grandiloquent) but there are a ton of hit parade words. I’m positive that I did not miss a single sentence completion on this June SAT, and I’m convinced it’s because I read so damn much my junior year. I had a 620 CR in March (because I left about 8 blank, 6 wrong) and a 740 in June (I missed maybe 3 - 4, answering every question). Also, CR really depends on the test. If you have a harder test, the curve may be more lenient (you could miss up to 6 and still get a 730 - 740).</p>
<p>Don’t really study roots unless you wish to. The SAT is a one time thing man (with multiple retakes) lol.</p>
<p>But I will be retaking the test in September (or October) and I really want a 2300+ (superscored too, if it does not go too well).</p>
<p>I also had a 49 CR on the PSAT. So that’s how far I’ve come just reading profusely. Read EVERYTHING that you can get your hands on and analyze it - in your analysis ask questions (phrased like the SAT) such as “why is the author doing this so?” “why is he writing this?” “why did he mention this?” “what the hell does this word mean in context??” </p>
<p>And soon questions on the SAT and ACT will become automatic, and you will be able to notice the answers by discerning moderate answers from extreme almost immediately (much like I do when I run out of time). </p>
<p>And practice too. I raised my BB CR (which lingered around 700) to about a 780-800 (though the actual one was kind of disappointing for me).
Practice and practice bro, and you’re labor will be fructified <---- SAT word</p>
<p>Also for SAT words go to sparknotes they have an excellent index that I browsed before the June SAT. Princeton Review has a good one. McGraw Hill as well. Don’t memorize, but understand and study; these words can come in handy later when you’re writing your college app essays.</p>
<p>One thing that I learned was to slow down my pace. On the PSAT, I scored 640 on CR, but on the SAT, I read slowly and thoroughly. This process actually increased my speed, because I remembered specific parts more clearly, and could more easily answer the questions. Thus I got 800 on CR and Writing</p>