<p>Sparkle can you answer my question?</p>
<p>@slasheer102</p>
<p>First of all, I slowed down A LOT. When I took the SAT the first time I blew through the writing section and didn’t bother to go back and check my answers. I also reviewed some fourth grade grammar rules that I had completely forgotten about. (Simple things like “Each is” “either or,” “neither nor,” the possessive pronoun for countries is “its” not “their” etc.) When you get to the part where you have to identify the error in the sentence, cross out the parts you know are right. And don’t be afraid if you get “no error.” Sometimes there really is no error. In May I got three “no error” in a row and freaked out and thought I had made a mistake.</p>
<p>Yes slasheer I did. ;)</p>
<p>If you have a particular question you’re stuck on I’ll work through it with you.</p>
<p>Thanks, i dont need help with a question currently, i just need a method of immproving. Like in one of my threads someone told me to start with section 10, understand why you got certain ones wrong, then do the same to section 6. Erase all answers and redo 10, then 6 and i should get it all right that time.</p>
<p>Whats your take on time constraints for practice. should i do no time to make less mistakes. Cause i usually make the time with a minute to spare, but the time pressure usually causes me to overlook “TYPES” of errors like hidden faulty comparison, when i think its S-v agreement. Someone suggested less time, but wouldnt that cause more errors. </p>
<p>Also in fixing sentences, my one major fault is sometimes i dont know whats really wrong with it, but i know its wrong, so i just plug in each answer choice to see which is best fit. Most of the time this gets me the right answers, but not all the time.<— especially with ones with like 6 commas, im like ***, which one is the nonessential clause…</p>
<p>Don’t time yourself at all at first. Focus on accuracy. Once you’re comfortable finding the errors start timing yourself. You have to build your skills first, otherwise you’re never going to get those hard questions at the end because you’ll run out of time and not know what to look for. I don’t think doing the test with less time helps at all.</p>
<p>Hahaha, I know what you mean. Those really long ones are a pain. Just try to dissect them as best you can.</p>
<p>Anyone have any suggestions for the hard geometry problems? Especially the ones involving 3D figures.</p>
<p>Anyone want to become study buddies i feel like a partner would make me more productive and it would be mutually beneficial.</p>
<p>@slasheer I found that crossing out the prepositional phrases helps me tremendously. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any advice on sentence improvement?</p>
<p>Best book out there if you’re already pretty good at the SAT and are aiming for the perfect score: Shaan Patel’s 7 Tips</p>
<p>For anything writing, I recommend The Ultimate Guide to SAT Grammar by Erica Meltzer. It helped me a lot. </p>
<p>I just got the Essential 500 in the mail today. It looks good especially the abundant amount of practice problems towards the end if the book.</p>
<p>After taking a CR test today, I got 6 wrong and 1 omit. 2 were logic based sentence completions, 2 wrong and 1 omit from one hard reading passage, and then 2 other mistakes. Extremely disappointed, seeing no improvement, got to step up my game.</p>
<p>I’d say countdown officially begins August 1st when Common App comes out and applications are about. This is going to be hectic but I got to stay focused. </p>
<p>I won’t be home much during August for personal reasons so I have to go back on my 6-hour sleep schedule. I’ll get home around 6 PM everyday and then will only have < 4 hours of study per day and maybe an hour for college apps. This will be painful but its only going to last for a couple more months so let’s do this!</p>
<p>1sparkle2, other than a few formulas, there isn’t much on 3-D figures. do you have a question in mind?</p>
<p>^There was one on the last practice test I took that I was stuck on but I figured it out now. I’ll let you know if I need help with another.</p>
<p>My biggest issue with math is timing. I generally take a long time to do math problems because I want to make sure I don’t make stupid mistakes but that doesn’t work out well for me when I only have 25 minutes to do an entire section.</p>
<p>Timing can sometimes be due to lack of knowledge. All Math SAT questions can be easily solved within 30-60 seconds if you know the right, efficient way of solving the problem. Practice won’t help you there but knowing certain techniques will. </p>
<p>DrSteve knows much more about this than me. Contact him through CC.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.facebook.com/thesatmathprep[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/thesatmathprep</a> He answers questiosn directly from here, if you choose to buy his book his Steve Warner facebook will actually friend you for more personal questions</p>
<p>Writing test today. I got a tricky parallelism question wrong and a idiom question wrong. Ughhh 750. Got to perfect this section. I’m just giving up easy points…</p>
<p>Going to work on some parallelism questions in Erica’s book. Later today I’m going to do some math.</p>
<p>Medical Boy, How did you decrease your errors to 2 erros. I keep getting 6 wrong. How do you Make sure/practice an error so you never get it wrong again? Please help</p>
<p>After I learned the rules, I practiced a lot. Even now after I review my mistakes, I might make the same mistakes again on another test if I’m not not being careful. When you make mistakes, are there reoccurring problems? What kind of problems are you making?</p>
<p>On another note, can someone help me with idioms and idiomatic expressions/ phrases? I know people say you can’t really study for it but people do get 80 MC in writing…</p>
<h2>For idioms, I made a list of almost all of the Metzler’s idioms from her book-using a quizlet, I clicked the Learn option(where you have to type the def if given the term). I thought i knew most of them but when i was only given 1 word and had to type out the other, I found myself stuck. So that definintely helped on BB when i see a idiom phrase, like “familiar…” i cover up the next word and try to remember what prepoistiton comes up in my head, which is “with” so i check if it’s “familiar with”.</h2>
<p>Also @Medicalboy</p>
<p>Here are 3 problems i did yesterday that somewhat encompass my errors</p>
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<h1>17)[Crossing and recrossing] the stream, stepping on or over slipper rocks, and [following] a trail [that grew] steeper and steeper, the hikers soon realized [how challenging] their day would be.</h1>
<p>My answer: C) that grew.
Right answer: E) No error
(Note: I though that since most of the choices had “-ing”, then grew was wrong, and that it should be “that WAS grOwING”.)</p>
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<h1>25) As a student becomes [familiar with] both early and contemporary Native American Literature, [one] may [notice that] traditional stories [have influenced] recent ones.</h1>
<p>My answer: E) No error
Right answer:B) one
(Note: I checked Pronoun-antecedent. “a student”= singular, “one”=singular so I ignored it, looking back it should be “they”?, but how would i notice that during a actual test?)</p>
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<h1>8) It is hard for some young people to believe that women were at onetime not admitted to some [colleges, but they have since become coeducational].</h1>
<p>My answer: colleges, but they are now coeducational
Right answer: colleges that have since become coeducational
(Note: have trouble with since and when related questions like consequently, because, therefore, like when to use which)</p>
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<p>The first and third one seem to be tense, parallelism, and conjunctions related so try to study up on those.</p>
<p>The second one is not related to singular/plural but what pronoun they used. It should always be you/you, one/one, or in this case he/she because it is referring to student.</p>
<p>In the third one who is “they” referring to? Young people? Women? Colleges? The right answer clearly shows that it is the colleges that have become coeducational.</p>