<p>I took a practice test and got a 2310, assuming a 12 essay for the writing section. I sympathize with you guys, I also miss the easy questions because I misread the question or I make errors from rushing 
. If you sense that a question is hard, you read over it more and you’re less likely to misread it. So I get level 5 questions correct but miss level 3’s!</p>
<p>@humbugs A 2310 is awesome! Any critical reading/essay tips? I’m stuck in the high 2000s-low 2100s.</p>
<p>@lifeisfun13 Thank you! I know this won’t help, but I usually just cross out answers until I find the one that I can’t prove wrong. I’ve heard a lot of “tricks” like reading the questions first before the passage, or reading ONLY the lines mentioned in the question and basing every answer off of that. I find that those techniques distract from the central idea of a passage, so I just read the whole passage before moving on to the questions. That way, I can answer rhetorical functions questions and piece together inference requests with ease. </p>
<p>CR is definitely the most fickle section for me. (I fluctuate from missing 0 questions to missing 5 #-o ) I’m reading a prep book called The Critical Reader right now to see if it will help me. </p>
<p>@humbugs Thanks! I always miss around 10 or so - I’d be happy to miss 5 any time! 
How about the passage1/passage2 do the authors agree/disagree with … questions? Any tips for those? Thanks! </p>
<p>@lifeisfun13 Those get hard when the distinction between the two passages are subtle. I always try to look out for emphasized words (marked by hyphens, italicization, or repetition) or “absolute” words (always, never, imperative, and other strong words) or signs of rhetorical humor to try to find each author’s position. </p>
<p>@humbugs Oh ok. Thanks! I’ll try that next time! </p>
<p>Took a practice test and got a 2170. I’m having trust issues with the writing score though. Got a 730. In march I was scoring around 750-800 on writing (without essay practice tho) and got a 590. I wrote the essay this time and gave it a 10. I’m not sure if this score will accurately reflect my score or if it’s just another horrid sham. For cr, the same happened as always- I got lazy during the middle passage and screwed everything up. Math is same too- missed some easies and simple mediums because of careless bubbling/errors. Sigh.</p>
<p>This is also my third (and final) SAT! Hoping third time is a charm! But as far as the essay, if I have to use a personal essay for my second example, how would I transition into first person? It just seems kind of awkward to me if I’m writing in third person for a literary/historical example, and then suddenly in first person.</p>
<p>@Elizabeth1315 It’s not that hard! Just introduce your example in a topic sentence.</p>
<p>For the essay, I’ve been thinking of creating another template, one that only uses one example that’s thoroughly developed and analyzed. I’ve found it much easier to do than even two thorough examples. But I found its usually only effective with an example from literature. Hopefully the prompt will be in my favor</p>
<p>Also, you don’t need a formal template; just keep a few examples in mind going into it. Whatever the prompt may be, tweak the information so that the examples are relevant to your thesis.</p>
<p>I watched life of pi yesterday and I’m so happy because for every prompt I see I can use an example from LoP to support my argument </p>
<p>^ Omg why haven’t I watched that.</p>
<p>I’ve taken 4 practice tests so far, and I’ve consistently been getting 2000-2100. This is especially horrible considering the real test is probably going to be around ~200 pts harder… so I guess technically I’ve been getting in the 18-1900 range?</p>
<p>OTLOTL I don’t even. Hao 2 improve score by 600pts in like 3 days pls halp</p>
<p>edit: @crystal19 what I do is I just take the lowest scores in the spectrums or w/e because I hear the legit tests are harder/have stricter curves anyway.</p>
<p>only 2 day 15 hours and 8 minutes until the sat!</p>
<p>and @shinchang why would the practice tests be any easier than the real thing if anything id say the practice ones are harder and your score is generally raised on test day</p>
<p>Agh! 2270. Retaking more so because of my breakdown(670-800-800) 670 in reading. I have gotten my reading to 720-750 in practice. Anyone have ANY suggestions/advice on how to bring up reading to a consistent 750+ ?</p>
<p>@satletsgo What? Most people I know have been telling me that the practice tests are easier/have better curves or something, since the tests are 5+ years old each and the SAT tests get progressively harder every year. That’s also been true for the AP tests imho, although that’s definitely subjective.</p>
<p>Still, though. My scores are making me cry. Most of the math questions I get wrong are so obvious, too once I look at the answer explanations… And I always thought I’d do fine on the grammar questions, since I know all the rules by heart, even if I suck at applying them. I was wrong. So, so wrong. And CR is just… CR. I’ve given up on raising my CR score at this point.</p>
<p>I hope the experimental section will be easy to tell apart. I hate the fact that one section that i’m gonna work so hard on won’t even count towards my score :(</p>
<p>In march I had a writing experimental and it was my 3rd section. I was devastated to find out that it was actually the experimental section because I did so much better on that one than the other that was much later on in the test :(</p>
<p>Oh so the experimental section wasn’t for the ‘New SAT?’ It looked exactly like the normal writing section? </p>
<p>It didn’t look different to me. </p>