<p>hey im starting to read nytimes cause i heard its good. i have a 510 verbal:(....and 2 years to improve it... do yall think i can improve it to a 670?? by reading nytimes and novels???</p>
<p>What's your native language? I may have other suggestions for you that are more practical if I know that.</p>
<p>Easier to carry.......great cartoons.....great stories+easier to accomplish longer engaged reading. You can get an cheap educator subscription probably...or have you librarian order some student copies. You will love this magazine.</p>
<p>urdu....im from pakistan...been in US for 6 years now..... my problem is that i havent been exposed to reading a lot</p>
<p>The New Yorker Magazine has many short articles as well as photos with captions......it may be a good way to begin. It is easier than the newspaper for beginning readers. Give it a try. You can get it at any newstand.</p>
<p>Reading newsweek is also good.</p>
<p>ok so if i continously read these....in 6 months-1 year my verbal will improve 100 points or so??</p>
<p>If you read anything that has substance for awhile, you'll improve in your reading speed and comprehension. That's obvious.</p>
<p>Sure, it's no guarantee that it'll increase your SAT score, but it'll help you nonetheless. But it's important to not only read but to also try understanding and absorbing the material.</p>
<p>The suggestions above are good ones. My S and D have selected the Wall Street Journal (especially the editorial page) as their source because so many of the articles are written by famous world leaders. These leaders obviously get professional editors to help them with their contributions before they submit to the WSJ, so there's a wide variance of opinions, and generally very good writing style. Recent articles were by Gerhard Schroeder, Hillary Clinton, the new President of Iraq, etc.</p>
<p>My opinion is to read Time. A lot of interesting articles, often about politics what I love about. And the words they use are very similar to SAT texts</p>
<p>I agree on The Wall Street Journal. It is my paper of choice and now S reads it daily- especially the editorial page. I do believe it has improved his reading and vocabulary skills. He also reads The NY Times. (all this is still a surprise to me since he was never very interested in reading until the last year and a half or so)</p>
<p>I think it would be more beneficial to read print similar to the passages that are on the SAT, and then when you are done, write down what you remember. After a few weeks you will notice that you are able to remember a lot more.</p>
<p>Time, Newsweek, Nytimes, Wallstreet Journal, CS Monitor are all good. Reading classic novels is also good from what I hear.</p>
<p>You have received many good suggestions. Go to a library to look at those various newspapers and magazines, choose two of them that YOU find most interesting, and subscribe to both of those. Oh, and while you are in the library, look around for some interesting books to read, on any subject you like to know more about. </p>
<p>I asked about your language background to check how you wrote the thread title. I'm a native speaker of General American English, and I might have asked the question "Does reading the NYTIMES really help improve verbal scores by a lot?" or "Will reading the NYTIMES really help improve verbal scores by a lot?" but not as you asked it. I suppose you keep up with news from where your relatives live by reading South Asian English-language publications. That's a good idea, and having an international experience is good for your college application, but you definitely want to read a lot of books, magazines, and newspapers published in the United States by native speakers of American English to help your sense of what Americans consider to be standard English. You could choose any of the publications suggested in this thread and not go wrong that way. </p>
<p>Good luck in your reading program, and in your college applications. Self-improvement can do a lot for your score.</p>
<p>WSJ all the way. S has read it for years and was well satisfied with his SAT score. He did no other prep except work through part of the 10 Reals. </p>
<p>If you find the WSJ dry, read just the middle article on the front page for starters. It's always a little lighter than the rest of the paper. You can work up to the other articles.</p>
<p>If you can't afford the WSJ, you can subscribe to the opinionjournal on-line and receive a daily e-mail with free links to several of the editorials. "Daily" is the key, though, because that's how you become accustomed to reading well-written articles. Reading rigorous articles once a week, or once a month, won't help much. That's why I recommend the WSJ (or NY Times) over The New Yorker. </p>
<p>Although my family subscribes to Time, Newsweek and USNWR (discounts!), I wouldn't recommend any of them to improve SAT scores. The articles are written at a lower level than those in the WSJ and NY Times.</p>
<p>BTW, look up every word you don't know and your vocabulary problems will be solved, too.</p>
<p>Wall street journal, time etc.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin.
NPR News hour on TV.</p>
<p>You may also want to work on your conversational skills. That would help your score on the writing exam. You could achieve that by listening to NPR or other quality news radio/television stations.</p>
<p>Here are some good readable classics......Madame Bovary, The Great Gatsby, Siddhartha, Beloved, Brave New World. I loved all of these books. They were interesting, challenging, and readable.</p>
<p>Newspapers are written daily, and columnists are under a strict demand to have their piece in by a deadline. So while I don't disagree that the vocabulary might be present, I do think the context in which it's presented is a little artless.</p>
<p>Personally, I like novels and stories, particularly contemporary authors like Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace.</p>
<p>Even though I am niether liberal nor conservative and tend to take a middle road, I read editorials to help me define my political stance (with all the subtleties, as one might expect). Do a search on google for "intellectual conservative" or "Mises institute".</p>