Mission Impossible???

Test Preparation
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<p>Is it possible through reading reading and more reading to increase my verbal score from a 550 on November test. To a 650 on the January test. Tips, hints, pointers?</p>

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<p>hey! I pulled up my verbal 540 to 650 in two months! Memorize alot of vocab, that's all i have to say.</p>

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<p>yes</p>

<p>read discriminatingly, however. I highly recommend <a href="http://www.harpers.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.harpers.org&lt;/a> and <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.commentarymagazine.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>see thats the thing. I do well on the analogies and sentence completions. But i die on the Critical reading.</p>

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<p>Buy 10 Real SATs and go through the book and read / complete as many Critical Reading sections as possible before the test! This will further acquaint you with the kinds of passages you should expect to see on your exam, as well as the types of questions that College Board tends to ask on them.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.hullpirates.com/vocab.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.hullpirates.com/vocab.html&lt;/a> Has all of the SAT vocab from the 10 real sat's. I think this is the most valuable vocab resource.</p>

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<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thank you very much! How much more SAT vocabulary can there be?</p>

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<p>Not the most concise list: <a href="http://www.freevocabulary.com/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.freevocabulary.com/&lt;/a>
but I am sure it has every SAT word EVER! It is more like a dictionary.</p>

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<p>Going to dictionary.com, and browsing through the lists of past Word of the Day's will also familiarize you with more SAT vocab</p>

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<p>any other suggestions?</p>

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<p>Just practice from 10 Reals over and over on Critical Reading.
Figure out strategies to answer the questions.
Try looking up tips from PR, etc.</p>

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<p>buy a verbal workbook such as Kaplans or Barrons. Practice the critical reading questions within the workbook. Doing this helped me out a lot. Btw, how's your math. just curious.</p>

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<p>on the november test it was 560. But the night before was the football regional championship. So i had a headache the entire dayof the test. Plus i did not use a calculator for the test. And i never have studied for the math. Only the verbal.</p>

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<p>right now i am reading the book Ethan From, does anyone believe that this is a good novel for the SAT?</p>

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<p>IMO you should really just focus on studying vocab and doing practice tests. Reading books/magazines/etc... is a long-term thing, and you only have 1 month until the january SAT so it's not really gonna help you.</p>