<p>I'm taking the March SAT and I have this whole week off to prepare.</p>
<p>I'll be reading Tale of Two Cities, Grapes of Wrath, Picture of Dorian Grey, Color of Water and Great Gatsby and rereading Call of the Wild. I hope I can read most of the books by the SATs. Will this help my Critical Reading score?</p>
<p>I have the Barron's math workbook, I've done a lot of work so far but I have around 3 and a half-4 chapters left to do. I plan on doing all the work I can by the test date, if I don't finish I'll just go over the key facts in the back of the book.</p>
<p>I have Barron's How to Prepare for the SAT, which I will use for Critical Reading and Writing Practice. I've also been going over the Math section. I also have a couple of old PSATs that I will use.</p>
<p>I have the online course, I have a couple of tests printed out, I will do them a week before the SATs and go over each question.</p>
<p>In my SAT course, we did a lot of work in the blue book, I will do the rest and check why my answers are wrong. [I won't time myself..just do them as practice]</p>
<p>I'm also memorizing sparknotes 1000 vocabulary words. I have a lot of them memorized and on flashcards from my SAT course. </p>
<p>Is this a good plan? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance =)</p>
<p>i'm not sure reading all those books is the best way to go. it definately will not help your critical reading score! it might help your writing though, if you can think of arguments supported by those books. but yeah, the practice tests are definately useful. hmm, memorizing 1000 words.. although it's unlikely that those words are going to show up, it doesnt hurt. just dont try to memorize 10 a day or something, you'll end up forgetting all of them. try doing 2 per day from now until the SATs.</p>
<p>Reading will definitely help you on the critical reading section! I heard and know thousands of people who read a lot and get 800's on their CR. Reviewing SAT prep books is one. Reading is another. Reading will move your level much higher than reviewing small redundant passage questions thousands of times..</p>
<p>how does reading a bunch of novels help with the reading section? reading novels is a lot different from reading comprehension, which is what the SAT tests.</p>
<p>I agree with dover... reading a bunch of novels at this point before the test will not help one's CR score. It will help however if the person reads novels overtime and truly understands them. The person would be exposed to a wide array of literature from different time periods//context and would be able comprehend the actual writing. I doubt this could happen in less than 3 weeks!</p>
<p>One of my best subjects in school is actually English..I just tend to zone out when I read passages. By reading the books, I'm hoping it will help me focus & read passages that I don't care about (and help me with vocab). I guess I will see. I'm still going to read them though, even if it won't help my score.</p>