<p>It is very much feasible for you to get a 2300. But first you have to sincerely believe that with a great deal of effort, you can reach that milestone. </p>
<p>Since CR is where you scored the lowest, that is where I will primarily focus on.</p>
<p>Regarding writing, I will just briefly say that improving your essay score would be your best bet, but you probably already knew that.</p>
<p>Your math score is very high. All you really have to do is to keep practicing and to make sure you don’t make any careless mistakes. Practice old and new SAT math sections without any time constraints. Focus primarily on the harder questions, but makes sure you still do some easy and medium questions. Taking the time to fully comprehend and analyze SAT math questions can help you to develop shortcuts and tricks to solve them efficiently and accurately; regardless of the question’s difficulty. All of the questions focus on the same topics (geometry, angles, functions, etc.), meaning that skills learned from solving simple questions can translate into solving harder ones.</p>
<p>In my opinion, critical reading is the easiest section to improve on. Most of your score is going to come from passage questions, but there is still stuff you can do to improve the completing sentences section.</p>
<p>Memorizing vocab would be an overall waste, considering your time constraint of the test being in march. In 9th grade, my honors English class looked a lot at roots, prefixes, and suffixes of words. I also have had the habit of looking at new words and figuring out their definitions by sentence context, and by recognizing roots, prefixes, etc. Both of these have come in handy for me in consistently doing well on these questions. Another great tactic for the harder ones is to focus not on why A or D could be right, but instead on why A,B,C, and E are all wrong. You will be less likely to justify wrong answers using this method.</p>
<p>Regarding passage based questions, it all comes down to the word called comprehension. That may sound vague, but that is really what all the other tactics, strategies, and tips come down to. What do I need to do to better understand this passage and thus improve my score? The more you actually understand a passage, the better you will be able to do when answering the questions. People do this especially by using in-line citations. </p>
<p>The best way for to fully realize this is to do a CR section without timing yourself. Easy questions are easy because they require a basic understanding of the passage. Medium questions are of medium difficulty because they require more comprehension and understanding of the passage. And of course, Hard questions are “hard” because they require much more than a basic understanding of the passage. More than just an “I think it means” understanding of the passage. In order to make hard questions less difficult and to answer them correctly, you have to fully understand the meaning of the passage. You will realize how much better you will do on passages if you do a couple without timing yourself. Spend as much time as you want trying to understand the passage. Of course, you will be timed during the exam, but the results from the eye-opening experience will definitely translate into you scoring better.</p>
<p>If you wish to consistently do well in the passage questions, you MUST see the full jigsaw puzzle; you can’t just use 450 pieces of the 500 piece set. You can’t judge a painting before color has been added to it. </p>
<p>The difficulty you find in the questions is 100% directly proportional to the level of your understanding of the passage. </p>
<p>Wow. My response was much longer than intended.</p>