<p>Benjamin, you should look through Erica Meltzer’s Ultimate Guide to SAT Grammar. It has everything you need to know about the Grammar section, and it’s relatively short so you can go through it in about a week. It helped me from getting 12-13 wrong on the Writing section to only about 3 or 4.</p>
<p>Great to hear people are doing well. We have ~5.5 weeks left so let’s make the most of it. I have to buckle down and seriously start pumping in vocabulary. When does school start for everyone?</p>
<p>school started for a me a week ago. Man once school started- llol my SAT prep was thrown out the window. School is busy. AC-physics is killing me. I thought I would have time for maybe a section a day, but school had other plans for me(+ i have to go to sleep around 10 for morning practice at 6).</p>
<p>Just took a mock test and I’m very pleased with the results.</p>
<p>3 wrong CR, 1 wrong Math(misread a question…dammit), 0 writing wrong</p>
<p>770 CR
780 M
800 W</p>
<p>I knew every question in the math, I just misread which area they were asking for in one of those shaded questions. Thank you chung’s and pwn the sat math…I haven’t studied CR in six months, but not much of a drop off there. Writing I’ve been studying for, so I’m glad that came through.</p>
<p>Now all I have to do is repeat this performance on test day and i’ll be set.</p>
<p>Anyone have any tips for studying vocab?
Todays test Cr 2 wrong Math 1 wrong writing 6 wrong.
Total 2230 pretty happy but i should have done better in writing. I feel like I’m getting lucky on a lot of questions. How are you guys studying for vocab?</p>
<p>@myrealname, thanks!!! I am working on Erica’s book. I am half done with sentence error questions, I cut it down to 4 today. Big improvement!!!</p>
<p>A quick CR question guys. I always have trouble with this type of questions.</p>
<p>Surprisingly, there are old comic book fans, a small army of them: adults wearing school ties and tweeds, teaching in universities, writing ad copy, writing for chic magazines, writing novels - who continue to be addicts, who save old comic books, buy them, trade them, who publish mimeographed “fanzines,” strange little publications deifying what is looked back on as “the golden age of comic books.” Ruined by the critics. Ruined by growing up.</p>
<p>Q: the quotation marks in fanzines are used to</p>
<p>A. underscore a traditional definition
B. set off a specialized term
C. attribute novel concept
D. mock a flawed hypothesis
E. support a challenging assertion.</p>
<p>Answer is B, literally I eliminate all the answer choices, I just couldn’t see why it is a specialized term.</p>
<p>^
Got the answer from CC</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/850303-need-critical-reading-ques-explanation.html#post9521646[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/850303-need-critical-reading-ques-explanation.html#post9521646</a> </p>
<p>Just in case if you want to check it out.</p>
<p>@benjamin8451
Hmm B was my instinct answer, but after I repeatedly read it, I kinda was like maybe it’s this.
But I don’t think it’s A because fanzines isn’t a definition, the definition comes after the word.
It’s not C because it’s not a novel concept because it’s not doing anything with novels, but magazines.
It’s not D because although it says “surprisingly”, the rest of the tone is pretty informative and straightforward with its facts, except for “ruined” parts and “strange”. And when it says “Ruined by the critics. Ruined by growing up.” it sounds like it’s supporting instead of mocking, but someone may take that as mocking.
Now as for E. It could be that, but the quotes are around one word so it can’t support an assertion much, as it’s only one word. But if they were talking about “the golden age of comic books.” and why the quotes were there, it could maybe be because the writer was trying to back something up.
So the best choice would be B.</p>
<p>These are from a test I did a while back:</p>
<p>During the years Sam belonged to the organization, he was everything except its president, a position he had no desire to hold because of the publicity it attracted.
(Dang, I should have gotten this one…)</p>
<p>Finding ways to produce electricity both cheaply and cleanly are among the most pressing challenges facing the modern world.</p>
<p>@MedicalBoy what’s the answer for the first one? Is it the ambiguous it?</p>
<p>Took May 2007 SAT today,
Writing was really good, went -4, with a 10 essay score, that will be a 710
CR went -4, it’s a 740
Math is 800
I am really happy with this score.
the first comparative passage is really hard, I bombed that passage.</p>
<p>Congrats Benjamin.</p>
<p>Omnipotent, I’ll put up the answers when some other people answer.</p>
<p>@jeffisaboss and everyone else. I just made a set of vocab words from practice sats. Took me forever too. Don’t know if yall want to check it out but here [SAT</a> vocab flashcards | Quizlet](<a href=“http://quizlet.com/25407368/sat-vocab-flash-cards/]SAT”>http://quizlet.com/25407368/sat-vocab-flash-cards/)</p>
<p>Annl, what tests are these from?</p>
<p>2 CB books</p>
<p>sweet thanks Annl233 I am debating taking a practice sat tomorrow or working on my college essay I guess i could not be a bum ass and do both</p>
<p>The answers to my writing questions are: </p>
<p>1) No error
2) “are among” should be “is among”</p>
<p>In the first one I thought “it” was ambiguous because it mentioned both position and organization. </p>
<p>The second one was a bit more trickier. Apparently “Finding” was the subject and gerunds are always singular.</p>
<p>Just graded May 2007 Sunday SAT test
800 Math
750 CR (went -4)
670 WR (went -8 with a 10 score essay)</p>
<p>The writing section was really awkward, consider this, for example</p>
<p>" These novels move (willing) readers away from (their humdrum lives) and (into a world)</p>
<p>that is (at once) fantastic and mysterious. E. No Error.</p>
<p>dang, although I got it right, I had to admit if this kind of wording shows up on the test day, I would omit it.</p>
<p>And for everyone who wants to learn vocab, this is Barron 3500 from quizlet (barron 3500 is not really a book, but a combination of Barron 800 essential and all the vocabs from previously administered SAT test, it basically covers all the vocabs on SAT - possible future SAT CR as well)</p>
<p>[Barrons</a> 3500 words | Quizlet](<a href=“http://quizlet.com/class/656704/]Barrons”>http://quizlet.com/class/656704/)</p>
<p>This is arrange alphabetically.</p>