Need Advice

Test Preparation
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I am a junior. I hope to attend a top college (why else would I be on this website), and am working on building my resume. I feel like I'm pretty well-rounded (grades, ECs, sports, etc.), but the one thing missing is that dreaded SAT/ACT score. I feel like once I get that, I'll be able to relax a little bit. </p>

<p>Anyway, I'm taking the PSAT this Saturday. I have been working with a tutor, and so far have been consistently scoring 750+ in M, 700+ in W...but keep hovering around the low-mid 600s in CR. It really frustrates me because that's the one I work the hardest on, and just don't see any progression. I'm usually okay for the sentence completion and short passages, but once I get to those long passages, it all goes downhill from there. I feel as if I just don't understand what I'm reading and keep reading the same lines over and over again; as if the answer is staring right at me and I just can't see it. Any tips? Also, I'm worried that even though I can do well at home, I might freeze up on test day (including PSAT) and just bomb the whole thing. Any tips?</p>

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<p>A 620 is higher than average, and is a perfectly respectable score, especially for a slow reader. I would recommend studying vocab, and reading a lot of different things and trying to analyse for meaning and tone. Practice makes perfect!</p>

<p>And why are you limited to six practice tests? There’s tons of questions out there to practice your vocab skills, like the question of the day, at [The</a> Official SAT Question of the Day](<a href=“The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board”>SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board)</p>

<p>You can also find another whole practice test online at [Free</a> SAT Practice Test - Prepare for the SAT](<a href=“The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board”>Downloadable Full-Length SAT Practice Tests – SAT Suite)</p>

<p>There’s also a ton of other practice online, you just have to look for it!</p>

<p>Best regards</p>

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<p>^^^Get outta here with that^^^</p>

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<p>Why? 10char</p>

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<p>Oh, nevermind. Whoever it was above my original post removed their’s now. It was like a link for some foreign website.</p>