in preparation for Oct....

<p>i have taken the SAT once (March 2008), with a score of 2140 (800 Math, 710 Writing, 630 Critical Reading). as you can tell, i am far more mathematically inclined than i am in the english subject areas. On the CR section, i missed 4 sentence completions, and 8 passage questions with none blank. My writing breakdown was 69 MultipleChoice (5 wrong 0 blank), and 10 on the Essay. So as you may be able to tell, for the October test (when I will be a senior) I want to improve the English areas. I would like to get my writing to be an 800 and my critical reading 750. I have all summer long and I will be dedicated to studying if I have to. What is the best possible way for me to jump up my CR and W scores?? and how should I go about doing it??
thanks a lot</p>

<p>stueydue - I have a similar problem. Scored 710 M, 620 CR and 600 W in May. I expect June scores to be higher. Even so, I will have to take the SAT again in October. For CR I suggest you work with the CB Blue Book and released PSATs. You can buy the PSATs at the College Board Store for just $3.00 each. For Vocabulary I have been doing a fairly systematic study of vocabulary lists and books. See the thread "Which Vocabulary list did the best?" The results have been interesting. Each list claims to have "the most frequently tested words." In fact the best strategy so far is to combine the PR Hit Parade with the book Direct Hits Vocabulary (<a href="http://www.lulu/directhits)%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.lulu/directhits)&lt;/a>. Taken together these two lists have about 500 different words. If you had known these 500 words you would have aced the June SAT. Good luck!</p>

<p>Try reading the newspaper daily, just for fun. There's no easy way to 'study' for critical reading. I think you mainly have to get used to reading these types of passages.</p>

<p>site above cannot be opened. Can you please repost? thanks.</p>

<p>m0baik01:
Direct</a> Hits Publishing - Lulu.com
try this one</p>

<p>^Thx PolarNs. Your link works.</p>

<p>what kind of newspaper articles should I be reading?? and thanks everyone</p>

<p>Can not go wrong with the New York Times. Great vocabulary source ! ^^</p>

<p>^ Absolutely. As far as specific articles- read what you're interested in. With a few boring ones thrown in, to practice for the passages in CR. :)</p>