<p>so my december SAT was a disaster, and i've already canceled the score. now its time to move on, and be prepared for the next time. now i have like 3 months to prepare for SAT1, but need help with the CR section?! Can you people please suggest me how to prepare for CR (basically the sentence completion)? i used the Direct hits series to prepare for it, but since i have more time now, i need a better source to increase my vocabulary! Please suggest asap?
people say to read many MANY novels, but apart from that, what are the other possible ways to increase ur vocab?</p>
<p>oh i never got the time to ask you about your sat. sorry. do you mind PMing your scores. i wanna know whether i can ever get above 1100 or something…</p>
<p>anyway coming back to your question, reading is the best way to improve your CR. however a more exam-oriented approach would be to get a good sat prep book which lists a damn good number of likely words and stuff like that. you could learn up the words at least 15 a day. then within 3 months you would be knowing at least 1200 words. i dont support this method though:)</p>
<p>yaaah maan this akshdip guy’s advice is reliii sooooooooooooooo cooooooooooooooool…
heyy btwww i think i mightve seen you at the december sat venuee…did yu by chance have the centre at st michaels? :D</p>
<p>^ im sure @rew2402 wont like my advice though.</p>
<p>@adi2915, yea it was, and yeah, i think so too!! 
and i’ve canceled my scores!! -_-
@akash: i dunno, the books like Barrons (which has like 2500ish SAT words) limits u to just those words, also i’ve read somewhere that barrons list doesnt have a better hit rate than DIrect Hits? but i need some serious advice right now!!
anyone else?</p>
<p>well i never asked you to choose barrons right away did i? its for you to search and research.
however the first and foremost thing you should do(acc. to me) is learn a good number of synonyms and antonyms for some common words. most often you will realize that the words given are rare synonyms and antonyms of some-really-common words. apart from these, im afraid you are on your own. </p>
<p>besides, when in doubt google it out:D</p>
<p>anyone else?? BUMP BUMP BUMPPPPPPP
guys? need some serious advice!! :</p>
<p>Okay, to be honest I think CR is the easiest section for absolutely anyone to get an 800 on. It’s easy (and actually pleasant!) because you don’t have to study-- just READ. Get solid works of literature and read them and think (!!!) about them. If you don’t know the words in them, look them up. You’ll increase your comprehension and speed and you’ll be a lot more well read, which never hurts. The only people I know who got 800s on CR (without spending literally hundreds of hours cramming) were bookworms who killed 5-10 novels a week. I realize in your OP you say you want other advice, but in my experience this is what works. Why waste your time learning tons of vocab that might not even appear? Instead you can read awesome books and become a much better CR-oriented thinker.</p>
<p>Works to check out: Dr. Zhivago, Things Fall Apart, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Catch-22, Lord of the Rings series</p>
<p>Good luck! I hope this helps! :)</p>
<p>PS what score are you aiming for?</p>
<p>thanks @diana… well, am hoping for a 710+ in CR, and a 2200+ overall!
and i really needed a book-list to go through with! :)</p>
<p>nah. i dont think CR is easiest. math is the easiest undoubtedly.</p>
<p>anyway diana i already mentioned that learning up tons of words doesnt help, reading books does. but since the time constraint, learning up has some edge over reading.</p>
<p>rew-- I think you have a great shot for that 710+, so just don’t stress too much. You have the time and the ability. Don’t overthink it and I’d recommend trying not to change most of your MC answers. Go with your gut, which I’ve found to be the most reliable. I hope you like the books but if you’d like any other suggestions, just let me know; I could probably give you a better list if I knew what kind of books you liked. Also, study the roots of words so you can guess prefixes and suffixes. Good luck, and remember the SAT really is a small part of your app (although a damn stressful part!)</p>
<p>akash-- I disagree with CR/math; CR requires specific knowledge/skills (like having a good vocab, etc, which I think comes from reading) whereas math is more “do you think this way or not.” Plus the math curve is BRUTAL and comes down more to luck than skill for an 800. I got 1 CR wrong probably because I misread it or something but still got an 800, whereas with math I’d be down to a ~770.
As for studying, it really doesn’t matter bc the OP can decide for himself anyway. I just don’t think vocab lists are helpful because even in the off chance you get a word you know, it’s not like the SAT is going to ask you to define it. They’re going to have tricky in context questions which can be prepared for much better with a good English background. I do admit studying the word roots is helpful, though.</p>