<p>but seriously. is this the easiest section to prep for? Like, i hear that once you know the concepts then it's all good and you'll get the question right. So, can I go from a 680 in W to like 800 with just "knowing to do the q;s?" are they that repetitive? </p>
<p>what's your take on this magical land called SAT Writing? is it the easiest section to prep for/boost your score? Sentence ID screws me btw, that's what I meant by'knowing to do the q's'. I should be able to write a 10 essay come SAT day.</p>
<p>■■■■■ nice. so just practice and you knew all the q’s? Like, that’s what I mean. i hear that if you know how to answer them, they show up again and again but in different sentences and stuff. SO, one you can solve one, you know all of those ones.</p>
<p>Does it work like that? If it does, then couldn’t the W section be easiest to improve.</p>
<p>And what happened during the real SAT? the trend reversed. I had an epiphany, if u wanna call it that, during one practice test. 660------> 780! lmao. can’t seem to recreate that magic though and its ****ing me off.</p>
<p>k, cause math seems liek you just need the knack, and CR is a fail for me baecause i never read, but Writing is that one make or break section for me.</p>
<p>yeah you can raise writing up really easily
during junior psat, I had no prep and I didn’t really know how to recognize errors so i got a 68. On my sat’s, after reviewing errors i got a perfect on the mc portion of the writing both times. the essay on the other hand…</p>
<p>lol, well for the essay, i can write a lot in a short amount of time (wrote 16 foolscap pages for history exam…2hrs. long).</p>
<p>I need serious boosting in sentence error ID. i got 57ish PSAT in W in october. i have high 600s right now. I NEED to get to 770ish.</p>
<p>^^^^above poster, yea that;s what i do at home! i quietly say it to myself, but can u do that in the actual SAT? if ppl see your mouth moving a little, are you thrown out?</p>
<p>no i did it this past week and i wasn’t thrown out. the proctors don’t examine what everyone is doing so as long as you’re being discreet and not yelling it across the room (LOL) so other ppl can hear, then you’re fine</p>
<p>jeez viggy, 16 pages in 2 hours?!? on my first sat i only wrote half of my essay, i couldn’t write the rest. it takes me literally 16 hours to write 2 pages for school essays! </p>
<p>i was really bad at grammar, this lady gave me a packet with a bunch of grammar concepts in it. I did it and my score automatically rose like 100+ points on practice tests, no joke. It might be because the packet helped me recognize patterns in the questions </p>
<p>and i think whispering is fine. sitting in the back>sitting in the front, i wish you could choose your seat during the sat’s =(</p>
<p>it is true that the sat tends to test the same things over and over.
luckily, for writing, there aren’t that many things to know.
i recommend sparknote’s 7 deadly mistakes. covers the majority of the questions.</p>
<p>So basically what is there to learn? I can usually get around 600-700 according to the BB, not sure of my actual score. I still have a hard time detecting errors as the questions progress.</p>
<p>^ I had the hardest time with idiomatic errors
Like lets say in finding sentence errors,
Although many students [had professed] not to be interested [about the civil War], many were [inspired by] Ken Burns’ documentary [to read further] on the subject </p>
<p>the [about the civil war] is wrong because it shouldn’t be interested about, it should be interested in. I don’t think a lot of idiom problems were on the test but memorizing them did make a difference in my score. You also have to look for subject verb agreement, parallelism, comparison problems, pronoun problems, modifier problems, tense and voice problems, and there’s probably more that i can’t remember</p>
<p>Incorrect: While walking to the car, the keys were dropped by me.
The keys aren’t doing the walking, so they should not go right after the description.
Correct: While walking to the car, I dropped the keys.
Since I am doing the walking, this is correct. </p>
<p>There are many idiom threads on CC - these would be the best bet for you because they come directly from people who have encountered them in BB.</p>
<p>^yup, I understand those errors. And yea, lol, 16 pages of FOOLSCAP too ahaa. not even regular paper. I beasted tat exam, got 100% on it.</p>
<p>Aight, so, basically can anyone get an 800 in this section (pretending one doesn’t fail on the essay)? Seems too good to be true…where’s the catch?</p>
<p>The catch… there’s always a tricky problem. Like the QOTD today, which I miraculously got right. </p>
<p>Long (one of the) favorite characters (of) American folklore, Hiawatha (is) best known (to be) the hero of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem The Song of Hiawatha. ENo error</p>
<p>I was so tempted to put A. But I recognized the idiom error at D. Somewhere in one of my practice section I learned (the hard way) that known AS is the only correct form. </p>
<p>Awkward phrasing that is indeed correct usually will mess up your 800. And maybe not knowing a single idiom, or irregular past participle. But if you know your stuff, you can easily get in the 700’s. </p>
<p>And in response to “And what happened during the real SAT? the trend reversed. I had an epiphany, if u wanna call it that, during one practice test. 660------> 780! lmao. can’t seem to recreate that magic though and its ****ing me off.”</p>
<p>I have a sort of excuse as to why I messed up on the real SAT… lol. Usually you get 2 pages of improv. sentence, then another 2 pages of error ID, and then another 2 pages of paragraph improv. When I did it, there were 3 pages of Error ID, and I thought the last one on the second page was the last one, and therefore the hardest. So I ended up rushing, and because I thought the last ones (#23-25 as opposed to 28-30) were the hardest, I got them wrong because I overthought them and put some weird idiom stuff lol, b/c usually the level 5 ones contain idioms. </p>
<p>^don’t mess up that way! It can really screw you up. lol.</p>